To anyone who saw Nosferatu (or the earlier news that Eggers was in talks on a Labyrinth project), that maybe isn’t the biggest possible surprise — all the blood, perverse mon

Instead, he’s taking on two wildly different projects. According to Deadline, Eggers will write and direct a sequel to the 1986 Jim Henson movie Labyrinth, a fantasy epic that will take him out of his comfort zone. But his other upcoming project is as on-brand as it gets — and features a bizarre twist he’s been trying to pull off for years.