A faun’s account of her identity creates a second set of demands alongside life at her stepfather’s military outpost.
Ofelia’s possible royal identity comes with conditions. In Pan’s Labyrinth, a faun tells her that she is a lost princess, but returning to the throne requires completing three dangerous tasks. The hidden world she encounters asks her to act on that claim. Fathom’s official story synopsis.
Guillermo del Toro places the story in Spain in 1944. Ofelia, played by Ivana Baquero, moves to a military outpost controlled by her stepfather, played by Sergi López. Her discovery of a labyrinth introduces the faun and the possibility of a life beyond that household.
The two settings give her different sources of authority. Her stepfather governs the outpost; the faun supplies instructions connected to the kingdom. The premise puts a child between those demands without making the discovery of another world a simple resolution.
The twentieth-anniversary presentation also changes the film’s exhibition formats. Fathom and Cineverse identify a 4K restoration and new 3D and HDR presentations overseen by del Toro, with SDFX Studios handling the stereoscopic conversion. Those are changes to how the existing film is presented, rather than a new story about Ofelia. Fathom and Cineverse’s restoration specifications.