Clive Barker & Doug Bradley Reunite for Hellraiser Remake
by Ryan Turek
October 24, 2013


The long-mooted Hellraiser remake has been mired in, well, development hell for years. Bob Weinstein at Dimension Films has struggled to find the right approach, fielding pitches from various writers all over town.

Originally, Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer (My Bloody Valentine 3D) were the men for the job. Then the project languished, the duo moved on and the search for replacements began.

Today, Clive Barker himself took to Facebook to bring his fans some very interesting news: Barker is going to write the remake himself based on his pitch to Dimension and Weinstein has agreed to let Doug Bradley return to reprise his role as Pinhead.





Here is Barker's Update:


HOT FROM HELL! My friends,I have some news which may be of interest to you. A few weeks ago I had a very productive meeting with Bob Weinstein of Dimension Pictures,in the course of which I pitched a remake of the first HELLRAISER film.

The idea of my coming back to the original film and telling the story with a fresh intensity-honoring the structure and the designs from the first incarnation but hopefully creating an even darker and richer film-was attractive to Dimension. Today I have officially been invited to write the script based upon that pitch.




What can I tell you about it?

Well, it will not be a film awash with CGI. I remain as passionate about the power of practical make-up effects as I was when I wrote and directed the first HELLRAISER. Of course the best make-up in the world loses force if not inhabited by a first-rate actor.

I told the Dimension team that in my opinion there could never be a Pinhead without Doug Bradley,and much to my delight Bob Weinstein agreed. So once the papers are signed, I will open a Lemarchand Configuration, dip my quill in its contents and start writing. I promise that there will be nowhere on the Internet where the news of my progress will be more reliable than here, because the only author of these reports will be Your Infernal Corespondent, me.

My very best wishes to you all, my friends. Clive.

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Clive Barker Offers Major Hellraiser Remake Update!
by Ryan Turek
October 31, 2014


Hellraiser is one of those remakes that has been in development for so long, it’s hard to keep track of what is happening with it, who is on board and what the approach is going to be.

About a year ago, Clive Barker himself revealed that he pitched an idea to Dimension Films and was running with the project, penning a remake himself for the company. Not directing, but writing.





In a recent interview with EW, where he was talking about the new release of Nightbreed, Clive Barker had this to say about the new Hellraiser:

“I think the phrase is ‘reboot,’ although I’ve never really understood what that meant. 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.”





If you’re not familiar with Devil’s Island, it was a penal colony – a prison that operated from the mid-1800s to 1953.

As we know, Lemarchand was a character who played a major part in Hellraiser: Bloodline, the fourth installment in the series

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The first Hellraiser sequel since part II that I've had any interest in seeing.