David Bowie + Dolls: This Weird ’80s Kids Movie Is Getting a Sequel With a Surprise Director

We know this since VVitch, his first feature film: Robert Eggers loves creatures and mythology. If that wasn’t clear enough, he proved it with The Lighthouse and The Northman, before driving the point home by re-reading Nosferatu and announcing that he’ll soon be taking on the werewolf in Werewulf, due in our cinemas on December 30. 2026 year.

But this is not the only project he is working on. And if seeing him focusing on a werewolf makes sense, imagining him signing a sequel to Jim Henson’s Labyrinth wasn’t in our 2025 movie announcement bingo, even with the lack of creatures and mythology. Released in our cinemas in 1986, the feature film really combines flesh and blood actors, puppets and music, which is quite a departure from what Robert Eggers’ cinema has been until now.

However, the main stakeholder confirmed the information floating in the air since Decemberand specified that it was being written with Sigurjón Birgir Sigurdsson, aka Sjón, his co-author of The Northman and Werewulf, with no release date information to date. And we have to admit, it’s all very intriguing, not least because of the prospect of Robert Eggers signing on for a children’s film (and musical?), as weird and disturbing as that is.

If fantasy has been an integral part of the English director’s work since its beginning, it has always interfered with the real world, even if stylized. In Labyrinth, whose premise is close to The Neverending Story published two years earlier, we follow a young girl (Jennifer Connelly) who enters the wonderful and dreamlike world of her beloved book to save her brother.

In short, a retelling of the Alice in Wonderland story by the father of the Muppets, whose main strengths were his world and the charismatic villain played by David Bowie.

Is Jennifer Connelly back?

While Fede Alvarez has been working on a sequel or reboot project in 2018, it is ultimately Robert Eggers who will allow us to reconnect with this world, but he did not specify in what way. In this age of legacy, the most likely option would be to follow Sarah’s son and have Jennifer Connelly reprise her role to play the handover card. But we wonder how the film will honor David Bowie’s memory, as it would be surprising not to address his iconic character.

Unless it’s a sequel but a prequel about Jareth the Goblin King played by a different actor. At this point, the project is still very vague, but it intrigues as much as it raises questions.