Director Robert Eggers was inspired by the success of his gothic horror film Nosferatu, which starred Billy Skarsgard and Lily-Rose Depp, and will now work on a sequel to Labyrinth.. But fans of the original film with David Bowie were not happy about it. Comic Book writes about this.

The news of the sequel appeared almost four decades after the 1986 classics release.

On January 23, it was confirmed that Nosferatu, Varyag and The Witch director Robert Eggers had struck a deal to write and direct a new film, said to be a sequel to the original 1986 film..

Although the details of the plot of the Eggers project are still a secret, it became known that he writes the script with Sion, his colleague for the Wikings of the 2022 Varangian Vikings. Eggers himself said: “The thing is, I always have a lot of things in development because you have to survive in this industry and you don’t know what’s going to happen next.”. But I definitely want the next film I make to be original."

However, this statement did not like the devoted fans who criticized the news and even begged the director to “leave the“ Labyrinth ”alone”.

In a blog post on X, one user wrote: "

Another noted that while he enjoyed Eggers' films, Labyrinth didn't need a sequel: "

Others were less harsh and believed that if anyone needed to make a Labyrinth sequel, Eggers was the man for the job..

" He's already perfect. But if someone can make it with dignity, it is probably Robert Eggers, ”said one of the moderate critics in the comments.

Filmed in 1986, Labyrinth, like many cult films, was not a commercial success after its premiere and did not receive a single award.. The film, which became the fifth for young Jennifer Connelli, was shot by the director and author of Mappa Show Jim Henson according to the original idea of \u200b\u200bBrian Frooud, produced by George Lucas. This is the eleventh full -length picture Lucasfilm.

According to the plot, the girl Sarah, who was forced to nurse the younger brother, wished him to disappear and he would be taken away by goblins.

And in order to save the baby, Sarah is forced to go to the kingdom of the goblin king Jareth, played by David Bowie.. Bowie wrote all the songs for the film and even tried to learn to juggle crystal balls.

Before the news about the sequel that appeared on Thursday, the Labyrinth remake was reported in 2016. Several books and comics were written based on the film, and several computer games were created in Japan..

Let's remember that Robert Eggers' film " Focus wrote about the picture and about its original plot.