Before you get too excited, be prepared to have your hopes smashed as the Weinstein's can't seem to get this project off the ground - and can't seem to make up their mind. After a few months of silence we have the latest name circling Hellraiser, the remake to Clive Barker's classic adaptation from 1987 that featured the first appearance of horror icon PInhead. Read on to see the latest.
Back in February Marcus Dustan and Patrick Melton (Saw II-VI, Feast-Feast III) were brought in to write a treatment for the latest incarnation of HELLRAISER for French directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (Inside).
Back in April, it was reported that Bustillo and Mauray were off the project.
The last we heard anything regarding the remake of HELLRAISER was back in May when Darren Lynn Bousman's (Saw II-IV, Repo! The Genetic Opera) name was circling the film.
Here we are in October where we have just learned that Dimension will not be using Marcus Dustan and Patrick Melton's treatment and that a new writer-director is working on bringing Pinhead back to the big screen.
After Bustillo and Mauray left, my hopes were smashed, until today. We learned exclusively that Pascal Laugier is now chatting with the Weinstein's about the long-delayed film, which was once slated for release this forthcoming January.
Laugier is the director of this year's widely praised French film MARTYRS, which has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. Dimension Extreme acquired the film for DVD release in 2009 (rumored in April), which was an immediate tip that the director could find his way to the HELLRAISER remake.
Read our interview with Pascal from September here.
HELLRAISER is the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, he is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.
WOW! this news does get me excited!! Lately, the french have been doing great in horror...Pascal sounds like a great fit.
If we could only land a great director like him for "Nightmare on Elm street...
wishfull thinking, i know(?)
I've heard some pretty mixed things about Martyrs. I really dug inside though.
I guess they're really intrigued by the idea of getting a french director to do it.
If handled right, I think a remake could be decent- though I'm as sick as anyone could possibly be by all the remakes we've endured (and will continue to endure) just in the recent years. If the film stayed close to THE HELLBOUND HEART, this could be something different and good. Hey, it's not like the sequels didn't already rape the original film of any form of dignity anyway.
I can't wait to see Pinhead back on the big screen! But why is it taking them so long to find a good script & a director? I hope things work out this time.
And please bring back Doug Bradley as Pinhead!
what I'd like to see is a PINHEAD back story...how he became Pinhead...explain more of the story brought up in Hellraiser 2 ( I think )....when Pinhead was human, before he became a Cenobite...and yes, the hitcher, we need Doug Bradley...Just like we need Robert England as Freddy
Tey should scrap the Hellraiser remake and remake Rawhead Rex! The original was utter rubbish! If you've read the graphic novel of it, you'd have seen how awesome it could have been.
f*ck these bloody remakes. lets see Harry D'Amour battle PinHead for the last time and then close the damn book. why not start coming up with new and interesting stories instead of just making crappy copies of classics
What the hell was wrong with Hellraiser? What part of that needs to be remade? It was fucking beautiful! As said above, remake something that wasn't very good, like Rawhead Rex or Nightbreed (Cabal). Or venture off into new territory! Clive has written a lot of stuff, ya know!
I agree that Hellraiser needs to be left alone! As a few guys have already said, there are loads more Barker books that would make excellent films if they were done right. I'd personally like to see Weaveworld on screen.
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