Jones has said that Bowie's involvement in the project had a significant impact on the direction taken with the film. She also has a maze game that resembles a labyrinth, and a musical figurine that looks exactly like Sarah in her giant ball gown. The team that worked on Labyrinth was largely assembled from talent who had been involved in various other projects with the Jim Henson Company. Lynn Minton in Parade opined that "what [ Labyrinth] lacks in story and memorable music it makes up for, in part, with amusing special effects, loveable and funny "people" and an emotionally satisfying ending".

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She loves fantasy, imagines herself as a princess, dresses in gowns and crowns, and lives in a fairytale world inside her head. Brian Henson on 'Labyrinth' 35th Anniversary, How the 4K Release Has Never Looked Better, and His Father's Legacy".It’s an extremely pretty companion piece to the film, with glints of Labyrinth’s pythonesque humour (one of the characters, for instance, is a sentient rose bush) and brims with love for the original (there’s an evil Ludo! Deep in gambling debt with nowhere to turn, Albert accepted a magical deal from the Goblins, who want him to live in their realm. The 2021 Blu-ray disc is the same as the 2016 release, while the 2021 4K Blu-ray disc includes an upgraded 4K transfer with Dolby Vision HDR, and special features such as 25 minutes of deleted and extended scenes with optional commentary by Brian Henson and 55 minutes of footage from the original auditions for the role of Sarah. Labyrinth" wouldn't be "Labyrinth" without legendary rock star David Bowie playing the Goblin King Jareth.

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Jareth grants her request, leading Sarah on an epic adventure through a tricky labyrinth where she encounters friends, foes, and all kinds of masterfully crafted Henson characters. She has trouble finding her way at first and meets a talking worm who inadvertently sends her in the wrong direction. It was shot from April to September 1985 on location in Upper Nyack, Piermont, and Haverstraw, New York, and at Elstree Studios and West Wycombe Park in the United Kingdom. Henson added, "It's certainly one of the most bizarre and unusual sequences I've ever used in a movie. According to review aggregator Comic Book Roundup, the first issue of the series received an average score of 9.The first version of "Underground" is played in an edited version that was played over the film's opening sequence, while the second version is played full. Members of Henson's family also worked on the production, including son Brian (the voice and chief puppeteer for Hoggle) and daughter Cheryl (who assisted on one of the Fireys and is also credited for building the characters). Smith [110] which, along with Smith's novelization of The Dark Crystal, was reprinted with illustrations and Jim Henson's notes by Archaia Publishing in 2014. Hoffmann, stating that Hoffman's The Nutcracker "is also about the voyage to womanhood, including the hint of sexual awakening, which Sarah experiences too in the presence of a goblin king".

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Sarah does not wish her brother would be taken away by the goblins, and Jareth snatches him away against her will. Newcomers working on the production included puppeteers Anthony Asbury, Angie Passmore, Nigel Plaskitt, and Mak Wilson (the latter three of whom are credited for performing goblins) who had previously worked on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image, while a few others, including David Barclay, David Greenaway, Toby Philpott, and Mike Quinn, were carried over from The Dark Crystal. In Labyrinth, Sarah embarks on a quest to reach the center of an enormous, otherworldly maze to rescue her infant half-brother Toby, whom she wished away to Jareth.He described his concept for the sequel as "An ominous mixtape blends never before seen snuff footage with nightmarish newscasts and disturbing home video to create a surreal, analog mashup of the forgotten '80s.

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He found the ambiguity of Labyrinth was an advantage for him in writing the comic as it allowed him to "ride the concept in [his] own direction for a while without fear of soiling the existing journey nor betraying the canon.Though he was only about a year old when the film was shot, Toby Froud tells Portland Monthly that, "I have vivid memories of goblins' faces and strange creatures and chaos around me that could just be from growing up in the house I lived in, or from seeing the film as many times as I have, or it could be remembering the puppets that were in front of me. Connelly remarked that, "it was a bit strange [working almost exclusively with puppets in the film], but I think both Dave [Bowie] and I got over that and just took it as a challenge to work with these puppets, and, by the end of the film, it wasn't a challenge anymore.