Brian Henson, the president of The Jim Henson Company, confirms that the project is still underway, although there are things that could have changed, such as its director.
Inside the Labyrinth (1986), Jim Henson’s fantasy film starring David BowieI was going to have one sequel which would have been directed by Scott Derrickson, but the status of production remains unclear.
Brian Hensonthe president of The Jim Henson Company and also son of Jim Hensonshared in a recent interview with ComicBook.com that the company is still very excited about making it: “This is a project that we are very excited about, but we cannot talk about it“.
Although, for more details about Inside the Labyrinth 2, he asked them to contact his sister Lisa HensonCEO de The Jim Henson Company.
What happened to Scott Derrickson’s Inside the Labyrinth 2?
In October of last year, Scott Derrickson seemed to suggest that the film was not on the right track, since they never got to “a point where the studio wanted to do the script,” but he was still pleased with the work they had done.
One of his problems seemed to be his world being so “imaginative and surreal,” which made him “a very, very difficult project to turn into something commercially viable” because there was no way “to do it cheaply.”
Furthermore, its “daring and different” proposal also represented another obstacle for a studio to trust it, as they would doubt that it could extract great benefits. Scott Derrickson added that they had “a great movie” in mind.
According to what they deduce from ComicBook.com, Scott Derrickson could have left the direction of Inside of the labyrinthbut that does not mean that we will never see the completed film, although it will most likely be very different from the original concept of it.
Dark glass (1982), another of Jim Henson’s flagship films, managed to have a prequel for Netflix a few years ago, although it was canceled after its first season. Will Inside the Labyrinth have better fortune?