I get asked the question almost every week -- "what do you think about remakes?" The answer is far from simple, but in short my belief is simply would you rather see Jason XIII, Hellraiser 19, Halloween 22 or a more serious start from scratch? My original reaction years ago was "f-ck that!" but I have since turned to accept that maybe a re-imagination of our classic characters might not always be the worst idea. Today it was announced that Hellraiser is the next on the remake manufacture line- and you know what? I'm all for it. Read on for the story.
Clive Barker tells Revelations:
"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!"
I love Bloody Disgusting! I have Hellraiser and Hellraiser 2, I also have House, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Freddy Versus Jason, Friday The Thirteenth, Friday The Thirteenth Parts 5 and 8, and Halloween Part 2 and many more, and soon to get more.I love Horror!!!!!!
If Clive Barker is writing this Hellraiser remake, then it won't be half bad. The next big question is: who will direct? Hopefully someone who is proven good at horror { Guillermo del toro, Alex Aja, or Takashe Miike for example}.
I think Clive is possibily one of the
best writers of imagination ever.
But, It's time to move forward and get some of his newer material on to film.
A true fan would want you to move forward not back. You know been there/done that!
Answer me why the Weinsteins' with all there money can't develope some new material Clive has developed?
J-P has made an extremely valid point. Clive Barker writing the screenplay is only half the battle won. I'd love Guilermo Del Toro to direct but can't imagine Takashii Miike directing for a mainstream audience, it would be undoubtedly brilliabt but maybe to obscene for the general population. Clive Barker is a brilliant writer. I can't wait for this remake.
I am happy of a "remake/re-imagine", only because clive is writing it. BUT Doug Bradley better be PINHEAD no one can replace him. And to do so would just destroy he charm, beauty of pinhead.
I agree the director is very important, the movie to me has always been haunting, very S&M Gothic theme...
And if this movie gets the wrong type of director (which screws the film) and/or replaces Doug as Pinhead then in the words of Pinhead "We want the man who did this"....
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"I just want to have five minutes to bring you up to date on the Hellraiser situation, so that we don’t surprise anybody!
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