In addition to David Bruckner‘s upcoming Hellraiser feature film for Hulu, which has Clive Barker on board to produce and will return the franchise to its Hellbound Heart roots – filming is complete and Jamie Clayton (“Sense8”) is playing the Hell Priest – a new version of Hellraiser is also on the way from HBO, with that project set to be a television series.
Last we heard, David Gordon Green (Halloween, Halloween Kills) is directing the pilot and “several more initial episodes” of the HBO series, and Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r Treat, Krampus, Godzilla: King of the Monsters) is writing alongside Mark Verheiden (“Battlestar Galactica”). Clive Barker will be executive producing that Hellraiser project as well.
So what’s the latest on the HBO series and how does Gordon Green feel about rebooting a franchise that’s also being rebooted by another filmmaker for another platform? It’s certainly a unique situation, and a new chat with Entertainment Weekly touches upon that.
“We’ve got it over at HBO, and that’s not in script form yet, but it’s being developed,” Gordon Green explains to EW. “It’s going to be fascinating because it’s a different platform, different concept, different creators, but the same properties. I’m not sure where that ends up and how that goes, but I’m very curious.”
Gordon Green adds, “It is a fun cultural experiment, right? To think there’s a crew with a concept for a series [and] a crew with a concept for a movie taking the same mythology. I don’t know, does it become like Deep Impact and Armageddon?”
More on the HBO series and the Hulu film as we learn it.
