A new TV adaptation of Clive Barker’sHellraiserin the works at HBO. The television series reportedly already has David Gordon Green, who directed 2018’sHalloween, in place to helm the first few episodes of the show.
Green will help kick off the show, setting thetone and pace for the first few episodeswhich will be scripted by Mark Verheiden and Michael Dougherty. Both writers bring a wealth of experience to the project, with Verheiden having previously worked onBattlestar GalacticaandDaredevil, and Dougherty having writtenGodzilla: King of the MonstersandTrick r’ Treat.
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The show will allegedly aim to create an elevated continuation and expansion on theHellraisermythos and will not be a remake of the original films. Instead, it will expound and extrapolate on what has come before it, treating Pinhead’s previous stories as canon to build upon. Originally human,Pinhead was transformed into a creaturethat now resides in an extradimensional realm. Alongside his fellow Cenobites, they are able to cross over to Earth through a puzzle box to harvest human souls.
TheHellraiserfranchise includes 10 feature films alongside several books, comics, and an unreleased video game. It all stemmed from Barker’s novella,The Hellbound Heart. The first movie in the series, simply titledHellraiser, was released back in 1987. It was written and directed by Barker himself and introduced Pinhead and the Cenobites to a whole generation of horror fans across the globe. Despite HBO’s small screen plans for the franchise, there is also a separate,unrelatedHellraisermovie in development.
Hellraiseris currently in development at HBO.
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