First it was getting a reboot, then it wasn't, but now it looks like David Bowie's Labyrinth will be revisited after all, only it will be a spin-off of sorts and we probably won't be seeing it for some time.

According to Deadline, Don't Breathe director Fede Alvarez will direct a new film that's set in the Labyrinth universe, and he'll co-write the script with his partner on The Girl in the Spider's Web, Jay Basu.

"Labyrinth is one of the seminal movies from my childhood that made me fall in love with filmmaking," Alvarez told Deadline.

"I couldn't be more thrilled to expand on Jim Henson's mesmerising universe, and take a new generation of moviegoers back into the Labyrinth."

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The film won't go into production until after Alvarez and Basu finish work on their Spider's Web film, which itself goes into production later this year.

Deadline adds that Bowie's character Jareth will not be a part of this new movie, lending support to the idea that Alvarez and Basu's movie will be more of a spin-off set in the world of Labyrinth, rather than a remake or a direct sequel.

Lisa Henson of The Henson Company will produce the movie, while TriStar's Nicole Brown will be there to oversee things.

Labyrinth was released in 1986 and starred the late David Bowie as the all-singing, all-terrifying Goblin King Jareth and Jennifer Connelly as teenager Sarah, who wishes her baby brother would be taken away.

The film originally flopped at the US box office but sustained a cult following, in large part due to Bowie, his hair, his tights and all those catchy songs.

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