Clive Barker on the Hellraiser Remake…

Another remake appears to be on the horizon and luckily the original creator will be attached to the project. Clive Barker has turned in his second draft of the script for the remake but is just waiting for the word from Dimension head honcho Bob Weinstein for the go ahead. I’m going to be quietly optimistic about the remake. It’s great that we have Clive Barker back in some sort of capacity in the Hellraiser film universe, but with Dimension still involved I have heavy  reservations. I’ll leave it at that for now. The quote is taken from an interview Barker did with Entertainment Weekly but has been re-posted through the fantastic horror news site Shock Till You Drop.

In fact, these days, Barker is very much back in the Pinhead business. The writer reveals he recently sent Dimension Films chief Bob Weinstein the second draft of his screenplay for a new Hellraiser movie, which Barker describes as a “very loose” remake of his original film.

“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.”