Clive Barker Signs to Pen Hellraiser Remake
Filed under: Horror, Scripts, The Weinstein Co., Remakes and Sequels
For a good long while there it looked like horror master Clive Barker was going to escape unscathed from the Remake Renaissance that's been plaguing the planet for the past several years ... but nope. Looks like the celebrated author / artist / filmmaker has been bitten by the re-do bug; he'll be penning the screenplay for a Hellraiser remake for good ol' Bob Weinstein.Over at his official website, Mr. Barker seems quite pleased with the fact that he'll be writing and producing (but not directing) this new-fangled vision of Pinhead's wrath -- but someone should have reminded Clive that the Weinsteins don't always treat their genre flicks with the greatest respect. (Just ask the guys who (finally) got their Feast released ... on the one-weekend midnight-only circuit.)
Ah well, I suppose it could have been worse. Somene might have gone ahead and remade Hellraiser completely without Barker's involvement ... and that would have been a fiasco. (Rent a few of the sequels and you'll see what I mean.) Meanwhile, that movie version of Midnight Meat Train is still stuck in limbo somewhere, which sucks because it's one of CB's most wonderfully splattery stories.
But really, wouldn't Rawhead Rex be better suited for the remake treatment? Hellraiser is already good movie!
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10-23-2006 @ 2:15PM
Gilbert Davis said...
A stunning bit of news. It's a worry and often times remakes are just giant crapfests. The only remakes I've liked were Ben Hur and The Producers. Both had the original guy redoing his work. Cecil redid his black and white silent movie Ben Hur and Mel Brooks did a great job at making The Producers again but both those guys owned those stories and took care of them. I can only hope that Clive gets to rewrite his vision of Pinhead and the Weinsteins know enough to put that vision on the screen. That would be nice.
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11-16-2006 @ 1:02PM
Frans Berkhout said...
A hellraiser remake! I hope they meet our expectations. It's always a risk when making
remakes. Especially if you are remaking a good movie. Making a 'book movie' is always better when getting the author involved. Not necessarily in directing, but more importantly in writing the screenplay. I hate it when there are really important scenes missing, or when they mix up the characters and dialogues. It makes watching the stressful. I'm always correcting
the scenes in my mind... "Hey! he didn't say that, she did!" (something to that effect).
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