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We Might Be Graced With Another Epic Crotch Bulge: ‘Labyrinth’ Being Remade
The timing of this is coincidentally weird but Tri-Star has announced that they have locked a deal with the Jim Henson Co. to produce a remake of Labyrinth, the 1986 fantasy film that starred Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie. The new film will be written by Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy), according to THR.
The original film was the last movie that Jim Henson directed and featured a script from Terry Jones (“Monty Python”) along with George Lucas (Star Wars) acting as executive producer.
Labyrinth followed teenage girl Sarah (Connelly) as she enters the world of the Goblin-King (Bowie) after her baby brother was kidnapped. Sarah must navigate a gigantic maze and interact with multiple creatures, some of whom want to help her while others want to stop her.
The movie was, if you can believe it, actually a box office flop, earning just barely over half its budget. It took years for the film to earn the cult phenomenon status that it celebrates today.
I haven’t seen Labyrinth in several years, so I don’t know how I feel about this. The original was incredibly imaginative and innovative but I don’t know how that will translate into today’s day and age. I was extremely excited for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland only to check it out and see that it was all CGI that felt lifeless and, perhaps the worst of all, “safe” and “sane”. I can only hope that Tri-Star really recognizes where the magic of Labyrinth came from and invest wisely into creating something that honors the original. Fingers crossed and crotch bulged!
We have learned the sad news this week that prolific horror author Ray Garton, who wrote nearly 70 books over the course of his career, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer.
Ray Garton was 61 years old.
Stephen King tweets, “I’m hearing that Ray Garton, horror novelist and friend, died yesterday. This is sad news, and a loss to those who enjoyed his amusing, often surreal, posts on Twitter.”
Ray Garton’s novels include Seductions, Darklings, Live Girls, Night Life, and Crucifax in the 1980s, followed in later decades by output including A Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, Trade Secrets, The New Neighbor, Lot Lizards, Dark Channel, Shackled, The Girl in the Basement, The Loveliest Dead, Ravenous, Bestial, and most recently, Trailer Park Noir.
Garton also wrote young adult novels under the name Joseph Locke, including the novelizations for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master and The Dream Child. He also wrote the novelizations for Tobe Hooper’s Invaders from Mars and Warlock, as well as several books for the Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchises.
Other young adult horror novels you may remember the name Joseph Locke from include Petrified, Kiss of Death, Game Over, 1-900-Killer, Vengeance, and Kill the Teacher’s Pet.
You can browse Ray Garton’s full bibliography over on his official website.
He wrote on his website when it launched, “Since I was eight years old, all I’ve wanted to be was a writer, and since 1984, I have been fortunate enough to spend my life writing full time. I’ve written over 60 books—novels and novellas in the horror and suspense genres, collections of short stories, movie novelizations, and TV tie-ins—with more in the works.”
“My readers have made it possible for me to indulge my love of writing and I get a tremendous amount of joy out of communicating with them,” Garton added at the time.
Ray Garton is survived by his longtime wife, Dawn.
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