Promoting his new Director’s Cut of Nightbreed – now available on Blu-ray – horror legend Clive Barker spoke with EW about the project among other things. One such project is the long-gestured Hellraiser remake.
The writer reveals he recently sent Dimension Films chief Bob Weinstein the second draft of his screenplay for a new Hellraiser movie, which Barker describes as a “very loose” remake of his original film.
“I think the phrase is ‘reboot,’ although I’ve never really understood what that meant,” he says. “I wanted to make sure we sounded some fresh notes. The movie actually begins on Devil’s Island. I wanted to fold into the Hellraiser narrative something about the guy—the Frenchman Lemarchand—who made the mysterious box, which raises Pinhead. I figured, ‘Well, what would have happened to him?’ He might well have been taken to Devil’s Island and I thought that would be a pretty cool place to start the movie. We’re waiting for Bob to come back to us and see when we’re going to actually make the movie.”
Apparently, there’s a loophole in the rights that if a movie isn’t made in a specific amount of time, it reverts back to the original rights holder. This is why Dimension Films puts out shit sequel after shit sequel. Now, if all of that pain and suffering us fans were put through was to eventually get a Clive Barker-directed reboot off the ground, it would be worth it.
And Pinhead would be proud of what Dimension made us go through to get it…
