Back in 2008, Japanese filmmaker Ryûhei Kitamura‘s first American film, a Jeff Buhler-penned adaptation of Clive Barker’s 1984 short story The Midnight Meat Train for Lionsgate, was getting ready to hit theaters amid a whole lot of buzz. Then suddenly the release was delayed, and the film was ultimately dumped onto a very small number of screens.
Despite the disaster that Kitamura calls a “terrorist attack” on his career, Midnight Meat Train found its audience, with many horror fans begging for a sequel. We haven’t actually heard any of these rumors but apparently rumors have been circulating that follow-ups are indeed in the works, so ComicBook.com had a chat with Buhler to see if there was any truth there.
“I have not had direct conversations about Midnight Meat Train, although I love that world,” Buhler told the site.
He continued, “And I think we never really got a good dose of what the fathers were all about, the way it ends in the film with the train conductor explaining the world of the fathers doesn’t get all the way into the mythology in the story, with the fathers and the maker and the history of this society under New York City, and how important it is to keeping the ecosystem of New York City healthy. The symbiotic relationship that these monsters have with the city itself. So I think there’s always opportunities; that’s a world that I would love to spend more time in.”
In other words, nothing Midnight Meat Train-related is in the works at this time. But hey, ya never know. The new Hellraiser film could make Barker’s stories a hot commodity once more.
