r/boxoffice • u/chanma50 Best of 2019 Winner • 18h ago
New Movie Announcement 'Nosferatu’s Robert Eggers to Write and Direct New 'Labyrinth' Movie for Sony and Jim Henson Co.
https://www.theinsneider.com/p/labyrinth-new-movie-robert-eggers-write-direct-christopher-nolan-odyssey-most-expensive-film113
u/KJones77 Amazon MGM Studios 18h ago
That is definitely not what I thought he'd make next.
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u/Impossible_Button601 6h ago
It definitely isn’t next for him, he just finished the script on his medieval movie so this is definitely a few years down the road.
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u/SilverRoyce Lionsgate 18h ago edited 18h ago
I don't really believe this rumor or at the very least it seems unlikely as framed?
Juggle multiple projects. Eggers has a bunch of movies on the burners, some in back, some in front. They move around as greenlights become possible. A miniseries about Rasputin came and went. “What’s not to love about Rasputin?” said Eggers. Medieval film “The Knight” is “on a shelf with a lot of screenplays. I have five things going on, because you never know what’s going to work, what’s going to appeal to people, what’s going to be greenlit. This movie was not greenlit three times. I absolutely thought I was making a movie that has not gotten greenlit twice instead of this, so you never know. You’ve got to have a lot of stuff going on.”
https://www.indiewire.com/awards/consider-this/robert-eggers-interview-nosferatu-1235079614/
[Newyorker profile for northman] “The Witch” made forty million dollars. In the spring of 2016, Eggers and Shaker, who is a fan of the sagas, took a trip to Iceland. Eggers wasn’t particularly taken with Viking history. “It was just too macho for my sensibilities,” he said. At the time, he was working on a medieval epic, “The Knight,” which was never made.
I really suspect The Knight will move forward if Nosferatu ends up being a success in the way the opening indicates it could be. It seems like Eggers has one or two longer digesting projects he wants to make and his selling point seems to be as an auteur more than as attached to IP.
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u/Zhukov-74 Legendary 13h ago edited 13h ago
Perhaps this is a 2 picture deal.
Sony agrees to fund either Rasputin or the Arthurian Knight movie and in return Eggers directs Labyrinth.
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u/SilverRoyce Lionsgate 6h ago
Yeah, that's possible and it's possible I'm overstating this (see the "multiple irons in the fire" quote above - Eggers being in a better position right now isn't the same thing as a true blank check).
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u/anneoftheisland 4h ago
That's what I'm thinking. It'll be very difficult for Eggers to get the knight movie funded--that's a tough time period to get funded since audiences seem to be allergic to it, and especially with Ridley Scott's Last Duel being a notorious recent underperformance, I think Eggers will have to make some serious deals or concessions to have any chance at all of it getting the funding. A "one for them, one for me" deal seems plausible.
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u/MrShadowKing2020 Paramount 18h ago
I want this to be real… but it’s JEFF SNIDER… a FAMOUSLY unreliable guy.
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u/Holiday_Parsnip_9841 18h ago
I hope it's not real. There's no way anyone can live up to David Bowie.
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u/ContinuumGuy 10h ago
Jennifer Connelly as a grown-up corrupted Sarah as Goblin Queen could be interesting. But yeah to recast Jareth would be madness.
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u/Primefer 9h ago
I liked the Tilda Swinton suggestion, but Connelly would be low key genius. It fits in so many ways.
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u/CJFilkovski 18h ago
Jeff has around 90% hit rate this year. Especially stuff about someone directing.
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u/Dwayne30RockJohnson 14h ago
I don’t get why people trust the PR over the insider. Take them both with a grain of salt, but how could it not be having troubles based on its release date being completely nullified from the calendar? It’s one thing to delay a movie, it’s extremely for a movie in this situation to have its release date pulled entirely.
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u/GarionOrb 12h ago
A Labyrinth sequel has been in development hell for ages now. Honestly, I don't think there's any way a sequel would work. It's been too long, and David Bowie simply can't be replaced. From the very get-go, it will be vastly inferior to the original film.
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u/BeerSlingr 12h ago
Eggers is a filmmaker I’ve had faith in since his debut. I’d be interested to see his take on the classic.
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u/Low-Objective-1648 12h ago
If true, this is a terrible match up. Eggers, while very talented, is not a fit. None of his work screams Henson not puppets. He doesn’t do whimsy, wonder, and songs. Also, Eggers mainly does horror, and Labyrinth is not horror.
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u/fakefakefakef 17h ago
It'd be hard to think of a less exciting project for him to do next. Like outside of "generic romantic comedy" really I'm struggling to think of something that would use his talents less effectively.
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u/Alive-Ad-5245 A24 18h ago edited 17h ago
Sony was able to get arguably the best historical horror director alive, Robert Eggers, to direct a film and they decided to go with, 'Labyrinth' a remake of musical fantasy movie rather than a fucking Bloodborne adaption...
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u/22Seres 18h ago
It's Eggers, so if it's true then i'd imagine he chose it rather than Sony deciding to go with it. He seems like a passion project guy, so if he does something it's because it's something he wants to do rather than because he became a hired gun for a studio.
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u/Alive-Ad-5245 A24 17h ago
Tbh this probably isn’t true… like I can’t even visually imagine what an Eggers Labyrinth would look like.
He’s never even hinted at wanting to do movies even vaguely like Labyrinth
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u/SPorterBridges 13h ago
Why would anyone want a movie based on a Soulslike game?
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u/Alive-Ad-5245 A24 6h ago
The souls games are a huge franchise, the largest seller Elden Ring is already top 40 best selling games of all time and it’s only 2 and a half years old.
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u/Psykpatient Universal 16h ago
Bloodborne fans just can't help themselves, can they? How do you make everything about Bloodborne? Why would Eggers direct Bloodborne instead of literally anything else?
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u/Alive-Ad-5245 A24 16h ago
You’re asking why the best historical horror director right now should adapt the company he’s working for’s most popular historical horror IP?
Isn’t it obvious…
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u/Psykpatient Universal 16h ago
Bloodborne is complete fantasy. It's historical in the same way Lord of the rings is. You're stretching quite hard.
And do you really want to drag him down with a video game IP that would need a huge budget for a niche franchise that will never make back the money spent on it?
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u/Alive-Ad-5245 A24 16h ago edited 16h ago
Bloodborne is complete fantasy. It’s historical in the same way Lord of the rings is. You’re stretching quite hard.
I didn’t know vampires existed in real life…
Obviously Eggers films often blend elements of horror, folklore, and mythology. Bloodborne isn’t that much more fantastical than The Northman tbh.
that would need a huge budget
You could get a good Bloodborne adaptation for $80-100M. Just be ruthless on what bosses to cut and which to keep. Not too expensive and worth the risk imo.
for a niche franchise
I’m guessing you’re not much of a gamer. The souls games are a huge franchise, the largest seller Elden Ring is like top 40 best selling games of all time and it’s only 2 and a half years old.
In fact there’s a rumour from a reputable leaker that they’re already working on an adaptation so this isn’t abstract and Sony clearly think it’s at least viable… So why not get Eggers to direct?
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u/Sleepy0429 Aardman 13h ago
Bloodborne is stuck on the PS4. Why would they make a movie of it?
"But ScrimpusGrumus the iconic leaker said it's coming to PS5 and PC" I only deal in facts.
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u/Alive-Ad-5245 A24 6h ago
Because it’s obviously not going to be stuck on the PS4 forever…
In fact there’s a rumour from a reputable leaker that they’re already working on an adaptation so this isn’t abstract and Sony clearly think it’s at least viable… So why not get Eggers to direct?
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u/CorneliusCardew 11h ago
Nobody knows what blood borne is. It’d be just be like that blood rayne movie.
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u/Alive-Ad-5245 A24 6h ago
The souls games are a huge franchise, the largest seller Elden Ring is like top 40 best selling games of all time and it’s only 2 and a half years old.
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u/CorneliusCardew 4h ago
I think it has zero cultural footprint outside of the gaming community and so no movie studio is going to touch it.
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u/Propaslader 17h ago
They need the French pole vaulter
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u/DarthOswinTake2 16h ago
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This is a Seriously underrated comment, lmfao.
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u/Adorable-Computer-90 8h ago
That’s a good joke but we both know that there will be no visible bulge in this one, and probably for good reason; it’s funny when you’re a teenager/adult but no kid needs to see that shit 😭😭
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u/MrShadowKing2020 Paramount 18h ago
I think we can give him more credit than that.
It’ll probably be Skarsgard.
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u/Ralph--Hinkley 18h ago
Chalomet.
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u/MrShadowKing2020 Paramount 17h ago
I mean, it’s not out of the question. He’s got a few big hits under his belt.
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u/Putrid_Loquat_4357 17h ago
0 chance he could pull it off. Dude has the charisma of a wooden plank.
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u/snospiseht 11h ago
I got excited for a second because I got Labyrinth mixed up with The Dark Crystal
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u/Extension-Season-689 9h ago
And they continue combing deep into the IP libraries for anything to monetize.
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u/fenixsplash 9h ago
A lot of people in here with no imagination! If this was happening(doubtful) why would the assumption be a straight Henson-style puppets and songs remake? This general concept could very easily be rebooted into a horror.
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u/YouDumbZombie 8h ago
He's my favorite and he's 4/4 so I have faith but I'll be honest I really hope this is a fake rumor.
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u/Aggressive_Act_3098 6h ago
Only reason I'm slightly believing this is because Labrynth is sitting next to Ferngully for most obscure things to pull out of a studio's ass for a reboot.
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u/StormDragonAlthazar WB 12m ago
Turns out the jokes about a Muppet take on the Lighthouse became too real...
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u/lactoseAARON 15h ago
It was inevitable that he was gonna get into a franchise/reboot (Nosferatu is so old and is public domain so I don’t count it)
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u/mcon96 13h ago
Can someone explain why I should believe this random ass blog with no source?
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u/storksghast 7h ago
It's not random. Sneider is a former trade reporter, now on his own, who is somewhat reliable.
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u/Great_Gonzales_1231 16h ago
NOOOO you can’t just direct a sequel to a beloved family film instead of the newest A24-produced, genre-redefining, trope-subverting, atmospheric, dark and eerie, emotionally draining, gut wrenching, aesthetically heavy craft by post-horror auteur with an arthouse edge, dread-inducing, suspenseful build up with strong character development and gradual feeling of escalation, bone-chilling slow burn with “say more with less” approach and soul-shaking, blood-curdling, skin-crawling and nerve-wracking exercise in persistently looming dread where tension and anxiety permeates every frame as movie reaches its nail-biting, jaw-clenching and paranoia-inducing final climax, free of any cheap gore, cartoonish CGI or infantile jumpscares horror film!!!! That’s not what you’re supposed to do!!!!
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u/el_t0p0 Legendary 18h ago
If this is true I hope it gives him a nice fat paycheck so he can go make that Rasputin or Arthurian Knight movie he’s been kicking around.