I hope Clive Barker isn't involved in some way. He wrote the book(s), directed the original movie, co-wrote and produced the second movie, produced the third and fourth movies, literally invented this mythos, so keep him away from it. Just ask Blumhouse: the best way to reboot a franchise is to not involve the creator at all. Just imagine how bad the latest Halloween movie would have been if they had worked with John Carpenter in any way or if he'd even had direct involvement in the movie like doing the score or something.
Deadline has updated that Spyglass has tapped Night House director David Bruckner to helm the reboot Clive Barkers 1987 horror classic Hellraiser. Bruckner will work from a script by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski.
We reported back in May that Gary Barber, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Spyglass announced that Spyglass Media Group will reboot the franchise with David S. Goyer producing and writing. Spyglass will finance and develop the project for worldwide theatrical distribution. Keith Levine will serve as a producer alongside Goyer, under the Phantom Four banner. Chris Stone, Vice President, Development & Production for Spyglass, will oversee the project.
Bruckner helmed Night House which made its world premiere at Sundance earlier this year and was sold to Searchlight for $12M.
The original is a masterpiece, Hellbound: Hellraisher 2 was a good sequel, everything that came after, especially the later sequels were really lacking.
I do hope this new reboot will at least take the best parts from the novel and give it a respectable treatment.
On 5/7/2019 at 11:53 PM, Satam said:Well, they've tried a couple times already and failed miserably. Goyer has a couple of actor friends who would definitely do a better job than the direct to DVD rejects. Not sure how close they would come to Doug Bradley's level. Not sure how I feel about this whole thing. I love the first four movies to varying degrees. The rest are utter garbage.
I completely agree, the first 4 made sense, the rest was just torture porn with no script
8 hours ago, Papasmurf52 said:... I dont know who could ever replace the original Pinhead actor
Well, they've tried a couple times already and failed miserably. Goyer has a couple of actor friends who would definitely do a better job than the direct to DVD rejects. Not sure how close they would come to Doug Bradley's level. Not sure how I feel about this whole thing. I love the first four movies to varying degrees. The rest are utter garbage.
You cant beat the original Im sorry, I dont know who could ever replace the original Pinhead actor
