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Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization

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Taylor, Dawn (May 7, 2009). "Scenes We Love: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer". moviefone. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012 . Retrieved March 3, 2012. Labyrinth' Music Video Applauded". Sun-Sentinel. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. July 4, 1986. p.23. ProQuest 389704937 a b c d Darnton, Nina (June 27, 1986). "Screen: Jim Henson's 'Labyrinth' ". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020 . Retrieved January 21, 2012.

Labyrinth was first released on VHS, Betamax, and pan and scan LaserDisc in 1987 by Embassy Home Entertainment in the US and by Channel 5 Video Distribution in the UK. After Embassy was sold to Coca-Cola in 1985, its home video line was renamed Nelson Entertainment, and a VHS release was also made under this label (re-using the same Embassy box artwork). New Line Home Video re-released the film on LaserDisc in Widescreen through Image Entertainment in 1994. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment reissued the film on VHS for the last time in 1999 in the US under the name of its subsidiary company Columbia-TriStar and in the UK the same year, with Inside the Labyrinth included as a special feature. Comiskey, Ray (December 2, 1986). "Bowie's Latest and the Greatest Ghost Story Session". Irish Times. Dublin. p.12. ProQuest 522100416I have seen this posted several times. I just adore it. I am keeping it for myself here. Hope you enjoy as much as I do. Goblins’ eyes snap open in the audience’s first glimpse of them, a dimly lit shot crowded with teeth, white-rolling eyes, green flesh, and horns. It’s a strange moment, juxtaposed with Sarah in her baby brother’s bedroom, trying to get the screaming toddler to sleep. Then the wall-to-wall goblins come out of nowhere. Are they in Sarah’s head? the audience wonders. Have goblins always been there, waiting in the corners, holding their breath, or sleeping until we say the magic words? Sarah then plunges into a whirlwind adventure. If she cannot reach the center of the mysterious Labyrinth within

Archaia released a Labyrinth short story titled Hoggle and the Worm for Free Comic Book Day on May 5, 2012 [134] and another titled Sir Didymus' Grand Day on May 4, 2013. [135] Archaia published Labyrinth: 30th Anniversary Special, a collection of seven short stories, in 2016 to mark the film's 30th anniversary. [136] Cory Godbey's stories from this collection were also released in picture book form as Labyrinth Tales. [137] Another six-story collection was released the following year, titled Labyrinth: 2017 Special. [138] In 2018, the two were compiled as Labyrinth: Shortcuts, which also included two new stories, [139] and another three-story collection was released as Labyrinth: Under the Spell. [140]Prange, Melissa (December 3, 2018). "Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Under the Spell #1 Review". Rogues Portal. Archived from the original on December 7, 2018 . Retrieved October 30, 2019. Brian Froud (2007). "Audio Commentary by Conceptual Designer Brian Froud". Labyrinth (Anniversary Edition) (DVD). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Jones has said that Bowie's involvement in the project had a significant impact on the direction taken with the film. Jones had originally intended for the audience not to see the centre of the Labyrinth, prior to Sarah's reaching it, as he felt that, in doing so, it robbed the film of a significant "hook". Henson decided that he wanted Jareth to sing and appear throughout the film, which was something Jones considered the "wrong" decision, with the thought of Bowie starring in the film in mind. Despite his misgivings, Jones rewrote the script to allow for performing songs throughout the film. This draft of the script "went away for about a year". During this time, it was redrafted first by Phillips and subsequently by Lucas. [17] [20] Davis, Erik (October 25, 2018). "Director Fede Alvarez Says The 'Labyrinth' Sequel Has a Script and is Moving Forward". Fandango Media. Archived from the original on October 27, 2018 . Retrieved October 26, 2018. Henson, Jim (June 3, 1985). "6/3/1985 – 'Shooting Labyrinth – David Bowie shoots. Blind Beggar scene, Jareth and the Goblins.' ". Jim Henson's Red Book. Henson.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2013 . Retrieved December 20, 2020.

Jareth also crated a beautiful place for his Sarah, one where she'd be treated like the Queen she was. Henson stated that, "I wanted to put two characters of flesh and bone in the middle of all these artificial creatures, and David Bowie embodies a certain maturity, with his sexuality, his disturbing aspect, all sorts of things that characterise the adult world." [29] Henson met David Bowie in the summer of 1983 to seek his involvement, as Bowie was in the US for his Serious Moonlight Tour at the time. [30] Henson pursued Bowie for the role of Jareth and sent him each revised draft of the film's script for his comments. During a meeting that took place on June 18, 1984, Henson showed Bowie The Dark Crystal and a selection of Brian Froud's concept drawings to pique his interest in the project. [31] Bowie formally agreed to take part on February 15, 1985, several months before filming began. [17] [31] Bowie discussed why he was involved in the film, stating that, "I'd always wanted to be involved in the music-writing aspect of a movie that would appeal to children of all ages, as well as everyone else, and I must say that Jim gave me a completely free hand with it. The script itself was terribly amusing without being vicious or spiteful or bloody, and it had a lot more heart in it than many other special effects movies, so I was pretty hooked from the beginning." [32]Sadly, time moved differently in the fairy world than the mortal one. By the time Jareth believed his new realm worthy of his love, his Sarah was long since dead. Labyrinth has become a cult film. [100] Brian Henson remembered his father Jim Henson as being aware that Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal both had cult followings by the time of his death in 1990, saying that "he was able to see all that and know that it was appreciated". [101] Academic Andrea Wright wrote that Labyrinth has managed to maintain audience popularity long after its initial release to a greater extent than The Dark Crystal. [56] Since 1997, an annual two-day event called the " Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade Ball", in which revelers attend dressed in costumes inspired by the film, has been held in various locations, including San Diego, Hollywood, and Los Angeles. [102] Labyrinth has developed a significant internet fan following since the early 1990s, and, as of 2021, FanFiction.Net hosts more than 10,000 stories in its Labyrinth section. [103] [104]

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