K.T Simpson
Separate to the feature film in development, HBO is developing a “Hellraiser” TV series!
“Halloween” helmer David Gordon Green set to direct the pilot and several more initial episodes. This will be the first time “Hellraiser” has been brought to the small screen – the narrative is focused on Pinhead, the iconic pincushion-domed villain who heads a group of pasty-faced villains sent from hell, known as the Cenobites.
Per Deadline, the rights package was put together last June, based on the “Hellraiser” film franchise hatched from Clive Barker’s novella “The Hellbound Heart”.
The idea is to create an elevated continuation and expansion of the well-established Hellraiser mythology. It is by no means a remake, but rather assumes the past mythology to be a given. Expect a revisit from Pinhead, the merciless leader of the Cenobites, the formerly humans-turned-demons that live in an extra-dimensional realm and are activated through a puzzle box called the Lament Configuration. The Cenobites come from hell to harvest human souls and keep balance between good and evil.
The series will be written by genre and action vets Mark Verheiden (“Battlestar Gallactica”), and Michael Dougherty (“X-Men United”).
