Last we heard , that long - bruit Labyrinth film reboot was still in the work despite the fact that there will never be anyone who can exchange David Bowie as Jareth , the Goblin King . Even if the kinsfolk at Sony are n’t able to find a suitable heir to Bowie ’s throne , a new comedian is on its way to answer the burning enquiry we all still have about the Goblin King .
Today , Boom Studios announce that its Archaia imprint is set out an ongoing Labyrinth strip serial chronicling the Jareth ’s life before he was a king . The story , write by Simon Spurrier and illustrated by Daniel Bayliss , will trip back through time and follow Jareth when he was a mere man aliveness in eighteenth century Italy . utter toEntertainment Weekly , Jim Henson ’s daughter , Lisa — psyche of the Jim Henson Company — said that the Modern serial will explain how Jareth get in the Labyrinth and how a human being could come to rule an integral kingdom of hobgoblin .
When ask about how much the new series would attempt to channel Bowie ’s life , Spurrier identify how Labyrinth will build towards the Goblin King ’s persona that we saw in the film , while also exploring orbit of his identity and story that have n’t been preface before .
read Spurrier :
“ We ’re sort of having our bar and eat on it . The ‘ Bowie shape ’ version of the character is very much present in our story . But there ’s a huge amount of stuff and nonsense about the people who bonk him and he loved . ‘ What happened to them ? How did this all shake out ? How did he come to be who he is ? ’
I go for that by exercising both side of that picture , as well as leaning into all the other amazing thing that are fantastic about the Labyrinth as a construct , we should hopefully get our Bowie scabies grave while also enjoying the antic , phantasmagorical marvel of this world . ”
The Labyrinth comic ’s premise sounds more than coolheaded until you substantiate that it ’s a series of story Jareth is regaling the infant Toby with at some distributor point during the original Labyrinth film . One imagines that whatever level Jareth might have ca n’t be suitable for a nipper , but we ’ll have to wait until February of next yr to rule out .
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