Katie Crocker - Associate Editor
The long-gestating remake of Clive Barker’s 80’s horror classic “Hellraiser” seems to be inching forward with Barker -on screenwriting duties for the remake – telling EW he’s handed in his second draft of the screenplay. The new movie, says the prolific author, will be somewhat of a ‘Hellraiser Origins’ movie.
“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.”
After several lacking direct-to-DVD sequels, The Weinstein Company opted to reboot the “Hellraiser” series – and imaginably with a bigger budget and theatrical release plans.
