JARETH’S "MAGIC DANCE" REFERS TO A CARY GRANT/SHIRLEY TEMPLE MOVIE. Jim’s son Brian Henson was the voice of Hoggle his daughter Cheryl was a puppeteer for one of the Fireys. DARTH VADER WAS ON THE SET.Įxecutive producer George Lucas was on hand for the first day of filming, and surprised the cast and crew by arranging for Darth Vader to hand Jim Henson a good luck card. Most of the shooting took place at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England. The opening scene was shot in Memorial Park in Nyack, New York. In the movie’s credits, it reads that “Jim Henson acknowledges his debt to the works of Maurice Sendak." Sendak withdrew his objection, but apparently complained for years afterward. Sendak’s lawyers advised Henson to stop production and threatened consequences. The plot of Labyrinth was close to the one in Sendak’s Outside Over There, and some creatures were going to be referred to as Wild Things (Sendak was the author of Where the Wild Things Are). MAURICE SENDAK WASN’T PLEASED WITH THE SIMILARITIES TO HIS WORK.
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Henson outlined the movie with Bowie and met with him a couple of times over two years to give him updates on the development of the film before Bowie agreed to the part. He got a note from Henson that said Michael Jackson or David Bowie was now going to play Jareth, so he had to appear throughout the movie, singing. In the early stages, The Goblin King was just going to be another non-human creature, and off of that, Terry Jones wrote a script where Jareth doesn’t show up until halfway through the movie. MICHAEL JACKSON WAS ALSO CONSIDERED TO PLAY JARETH. Krakowski, Sheedy, and Maddie Corman were the top candidates until Jennifer Connelly won Henson over. Jane Krakowski, Yasmine Bleeth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Mary Stuart Masterson, Laura Dern, Lili Taylor, Laura San Giacomo, Ally Sheedy, and Mia Sara all auditioned. A LOT OF NOW-FAMOUS ACTRESSES AUDITIONED FOR SARAH. While Jones ended up credited as the lone screenwriter, because his version and the final version are so different, he didn’t feel “very close” to it.
Comedy legend and accomplished scriptwriter Elaine May did some revisions that helped humanize the characters. Using a story written by Henson and Dennis Lee as a jumping off point, Monty Python’s Terry Jones and Fraggle Rock writer Laura Phillips each wrote a script. Illustrator Brian Froud first pitched Jim Henson his vision of a baby surrounded by goblins after a screening of The Dark Crystal. There were a lot of chefs in the Labyrinth kitchen. THERE WERE 25 TREATMENTS AND VERSIONS OF SCRIPTS WRITTEN.
Here are some facts that will remind you of the babe with the voodoo. While Labyrinth initially only made back about half of its $25 million budget, a strong cult following that marveled at its storytelling and (then) impressive technical work had its say over time. The story of a teenage girl losing her baby brother to a Goblin King resembling a rock star didn’t intrigue a lot of people when it first came out in theaters in 1986.
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