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fryinpan1
10-22-06, 08:25 AM
Clive Barker has announced on Revelations that The Weinstein Company is developing a Hellraiser remake and has asked him to write the script:

http://www.clivebarker.info/intsrevel15.html

"I just want to have five minutes to bring you up to date on the Hellraiser situation, so that we don’t surprise anybody!

"They’re going to remake Hellraiser One with a lot more money and they’ve invited me to write it – the invitation came from Bob Weinstein – which I am going to do, on the basis that if I don’t do it, it will be done in some way that I probably won’t like!

"It’s only that one that I really, really, really care about in terms of its remake value - and it’ll be kind of fun to have the extra money to do the effects and all that cool stuff.

"So it puts me in the situation of writing both the beginning and the end of Pinhead at the same time – ‘In my end is my beginning…’ I’m not in the middle, as it were, I’m leaving out his middle age, I’m just dealing with his beginning and his end.

"I’m excited about it - actually it’ll be kinda cool to revisit it once and see if there are things we can do to it which will make it significantly better.

"I wouldn’t wish to direct – I only want to write and be a part of the producing team. I wouldn’t want to revisit something that I did as a director, something that I did all those years ago: that would be too, in a way, painful - not painful but weird, difficult, strange…

"I am very happy at the idea of having some more money for the cool stuff – I don’t know how much more money, but it’s got to be more than the $900,000 that we had the first time!"

clappj
10-22-06, 08:58 AM
I think it's great they asked him (and he accepted) to be involved!
This could be the best thing to happen to the Hellraiser franchise in a long time! :)

fiver
10-22-06, 09:39 AM
I do like it when original authors are involved (even in remakes). The only way I'd actually be interested in seeing it is if the story is significantly different from the original. Then it's not really a remake even if it doesn't continue the storyline from the original.

Michael

Giantrobo
10-22-06, 09:59 AM
<b>[typical dtalker comment]</b>Ugh! Not yet another Remake! It'll probably be another CGI Crapfest and my childhood will be RAPED! Clive Barker is George Luca$! <b>[/typical dtalker comment]</b>:lol::lol:


Anyway, I wish Clive luck on this. The whole Hellraiser thing was always a great Horror concept.

matome
10-22-06, 10:24 AM
Yeah, this franchise is seriously in need of some "new blood" even if it is from the same well.

Joe Molotov
10-22-06, 04:47 PM
<b>[typical dtalker comment]</b>Ugh! Not yet another Remake! It'll probably be another CGI Crapfest and my childhood will be RAPED! Clive Barker is George Luca$! <b>[/typical dtalker comment]</b>:lol::lol:

After the painful badness of the last 3 (4? 5?) installments of the Hellraiser series, a CGI crapfest would be a welcome breath of fresh air.

Suprmallet
10-22-06, 05:12 PM
I'll be there on opening day for this, unless the Weinsteins push out Barker, which I could easily see happening.

Eric D.
10-22-06, 05:49 PM
Since Barker is writing this, I'm all for it. He is a really bright guy who seems to know what he is doing and I respect him for that. He was right in thinking that if he didn't pen the remake, they would bring some hack in who would mess it all up. I'm looking foward to this one now. I really liked the first 2 Hellraiser films and it would be nice to see them return to form after all those awful sequels.

Zodiac_Speaking
10-22-06, 09:20 PM
Hey as long as Barker wants this, then hell yes. He has stated numerous times his hatred of cgi effects.

Awesome.

zombiezilla
10-22-06, 11:10 PM
I'm in for this one.

mndtrp
10-23-06, 02:16 AM
Other than one or two of the sequels that were passable, this series has been pretty crappy. This seems like an excellent idea, especially if it could be the beginning of a good (short) series of sequels.

Giantrobo
10-23-06, 10:48 AM
I wanna see Alien vs. Pinhead. :up: