"Hellraiser" Remake on its way...

[cqb101]

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/11361


Variety confirms that both Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan earning high six figures for scripting the Hellraiser remake for Dimension Films. The writers will be working on a hair-raising deadline with French filmmakers Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (Inside) planning a spring start for the redo of the 1987 Clive Barker film. They will do a page-one rewrite from the set of Midnight Man, which the duo scripted that Dimension film with Dunstan behind the camera. The original pic, which introduced the now-iconic Cenobite torturer Pinhead, follows a man and wife living in an old house who are caught up in machinations by the man's brother, a Cenobite torture victim, to rejuvenate his skinless body from the carcasses of fresh victims.

Could be interesting. I love the original and I enjoyed Feast well enough.

[DrSpengler]

Ugh.

Personally, I'd been enjoying the straight to video Hellraiser series we'd been getting (save for Hellworld). That series took a page from the Hellraiser comic book series and told anthology tales revolving around the Hellraiser mythos (with the exception of Hellseeker, no sequel carried on from another).

The last two films in the theatrical series, Hell on Earth and Bloodline, had really disappointed me because they'd lost sight of what Hellraiser was supposed to be about: a look into the personal Hells of individuals and their encounters with Leviathan's Cenobites and the Lament Configurations.

While the straight to video series had been declining in quality, I was still enjoying it up until the end.

As for a remake, Hellraiser is one of those films that absolutely does not feel old or outdated. It works just as well today as it did twenty years ago.

Well, whatever. The original isn't going anywhere, I guess. I'd just like more Hellraiser sequels than a straight up reboot.

[Drtooth]

Is anyone surprised that the word "remake" is the most overused word in Hollywood these days? It's either remake, sequal, ripoff, sequal of the remake, sequal to the ripoff or remake of the ripoff's sequal. Originality is a word you'll never see in a mainstream film.

[Raph's Girl]

This was actually announced like a year ago that there was gonna be a remake. There's a dozen movies in the franchise. I don't see the point in remaking it.

[Brodie]

This was actually announced like a year ago that there was gonna be a remake.

Hey, you don't have to be the only one to post old ****ing news.

Anyway, the reason i can get behind this flick is because Clive Barker endorses it. He's also writing the sequel to the book Hellbound Heart (which Hellraiser is based on), called The Scarlet Gospels in which he'll finish any story or ideas pertaining to Pinhead/the Lemarchand box. The book has nothing to do with the sequels, but will coincide/be relevant to the new remake, etc, etc, etc.

[DrSpengler]

I'm wondering how he's going to put Pinhead in the sequel since the character wasn't in "The Hellbound Heart" (which I've read). A Cenobite with pins all over its head does appear in the book, though it's a girl and most certainly not the Pinhead we recognize from the movies.

[Brodie]

Pinhead is in it, not as a woman though. He's just called the Engineer. They reference him as a 'He', not a she.

[Spitfire]

I thought Feast was a big waste of time but I hear the directors who did it made some French horror movie that was pretty good. If Barker is behind it like Brodie said it might be good. I also want to see the movie version of his "Meat Train" book, or whatever it's called. I saw a trailer awhile back.

[DrSpengler]

Pinhead is in it, not as a woman though. He's just called the Engineer. They reference him as a 'He', not a she.

The Engineer in Hellbound Heart was Pinhead? Zuh?

The Engineer appeared in the book as a luminous ball of energy and overlord of Hell, capable of possessing corpses (as opposed to how he appeared in the film; a giant worm thing). If anything, the Hellbound Heart's interpretation of the Engineer has him more in line with Leviathan from the films than Pinhead.

The Cenobite covered in pins was referred to as a "she" while the leader of the Cenobites (essentially film-Pinhead's role) was a genderless creature of little description.

[cqb101]

This was actually announced like a year ago that there was gonna be a remake. There's a dozen movies in the franchise. I don't see the point in remaking it.

The news of the writers/directors/and shooting is all brand new.

[Drtooth]

This was actually announced like a year ago that there was gonna be a remake. There's a dozen movies in the franchise. I don't see the point in remaking it.

Same thing with Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. But that's not stopping them either.

[Brodie]

The Engineer in Hellbound Heart was Pinhead? Zuh?

The Engineer appeared in the book as a luminous ball of energy and overlord of Hell, capable of possessing corpses (as opposed to how he appeared in the film; a giant worm thing). If anything, the Hellbound Heart's interpretation of the Engineer has him more in line with Leviathan from the films than Pinhead.

The Cenobite covered in pins was referred to as a "she" while the leader of the Cenobites (essentially film-Pinhead's role) was a genderless creature of little description.
I need to read it again. But As far as genderless, maybe that's one of the points in referring to "pinhead" as 'she,' to make it more ambiguous. And considering the look in the films, they can be gender ambiguous.

[Stimor]

Are they going to remake batman begins yet?