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Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization

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When I saw they made a book I was hesitant because, I didn't want the magic that I remember to be gone. As a result I’ve got a good few projects that are half-completed, and I need to get back into the swing of things here.

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. I always want to go one way, and George goes another way, but we each took turns trading off, giving and taking.Production designer Elliot Scott states that the biggest challenge he faced was building the forest Sarah and her party pass through on their way to Jareth's Castle.

As the World Falls Down" was initially slated for release as a follow-up single to "Underground" at Christmas in 1986, but this plan did not materialise. In 2020, Archaia published Labyrinth: Masquerade, a one-shot story set during the film's masquerade dream sequence, written by Lara Elena Donnelly with art by Pius Bak, Samantha Dodge, and French Carlomango. Sarah had almost no physical traits in common with her father, taking al The early script ends with Sarah kicking Jareth in disgust, and her blows transform him into a powerless, sniveling goblin. It is a game of cunning, of puzzles and trickery, it is a game where a forthright conversation can get you just as far as brute strength.

the Wiseman’s bird hat started life as the top of a Jester’s staff and an early description of Sir Didymus summed him up perfectly as “small and feisty”. Additionally make sure your User-Agent is not empty and is something unique and descriptive and try again. Its scheduled April 2014 release slot [133] was replaced by Archaia's reissue of the Labyrinth novelization.

Smith's novelisation of Labyrinth, complemented by lots of great new material including some wonderful Brian Froud goblin sketches and pages from Jim Henson's ideas notebook. This reprint of the novelisation took the prequel's slot in the publication schedule, and I have the impression that what was once the page for selling the prequel has now become the page for selling the novelisation. The story revolves around an infant Jareth who has been stolen by the previous ruler of the labyrinth the Owl King and follows the quest of Jareth's mother Maria to rescue her son. Overall, I can’t recommend this enough - the book is perfectly presented, and the new content makes it a must have even if you already own the original print of the novelisation. Henson noted that he wished to "make the idea of taking responsibility for one's life, which is one of the neat realisations a teenager experiences, a central thought of the film".

I simply drew up the design in Adobe Illustrator, tweaking things here and there so that the dimensions roughly matched the novelization. The book itself is a lovingly recreated copy of the classic Labyrinth book Sarah owns in the movie, though it is a little bigger as we had a lot of adventure to fit inside! I’ve mentioned both Jen and John Yates of EPBOT multiple times on this blog, particularly in reference to their Harry Potter Christmas parties, which was a direct inspiration for me hosting my Labyrinth viewing party. Cuando vi el libro, no estaba segura de si sería buena idea comprarlo pues hasta ahora no habia leído ningua adaptacion de película a novela que me diera algo que la película no me hubiera dado ya. 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.

She said that, "Even though that was the reason I took the job and had, for two years, been thinking that was what was going to happen. Here we see them in action, particularly her obsessive-compulsive arrangement of her stuffed animals, and her complete lack of common ground with her stepmother. Jones is credited with writing the screenplay, while the shooting script was actually a collaborative effort that featured contributions from Henson, George Lucas, Laura Phillips, and Elaine May. This was never about making fun of Sarah–in the film, she’s clearly struggling with loving her old things, but knowing something’s not right.Labyrinth is a 1986 musical fantasy film directed by Jim Henson with George Lucas as executive producer. Henson intended the protagonist of the film, at different stages of its development, as a king whose baby had been put under an enchantment, a princess from a fantasy world, and a young girl from Victorian England. The official novelization of Jim Henson’s cult classic film along with a behind-the-scenes look at the film’s conception from the Jim Henson Archives. In April 2012, a remastered re-release of the film was screened at The Astor Theatre in Melbourne, Australia. She recites the lines from her book that mirror her adventure to that point, but she still cannot remember the last line.

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