Hellraiser Being Developed as a TV Series

[Pennywise]

 

[Man in the Suit]

 

[DarkKnight88]

Since I only consider the first two films to be worth watching, hopefully this brings some good to this franchise. It’s been too long.

 

[Sawyer]

Watching the first Hellraiser last year was quite an experience. I don’t think my perception of a film has ever been quite so far off from the actual film.

My perception: Dark, erotic, dangerous

The film: all those things, but with a whole lot more “frigid housewife lusts after mutilated f***boi brother-in-law” than I was expecting.

 

[Man in the Suit]

'Hellraiser' Writer Reclaiming U.S. Franchise Rights After Lawsuit Settlement | Hollywood Reporter

 

[Sawyer]

Still reeling from the director of Pineapple Express being a horror guy now.

 

[Pennywise]

Take it with some salt as the website has gotten most scoops bang on, but a few not so much.
https://www.theilluminerdi.com/2021/05/26/hellraiser-new-pinhead-direction/
Hellraiser: Details On New Pinhead And Direction For Horror Series: Exclusive - The Illuminerdi

Our sources have revealed that the Priest/Pinhead role is going through a gender-swap for the Hellraiser series on HBO Max. The description calls for a woman who is graceful, ethereal, commanding, and regal, and there was interest in one point in Elizabeth Debicki.

 

[Sawyer]

It’d be fun to watch the meltdowns that would inspire.

 

[DarkKnight88]

So we're getting two Hellraiser things, one a tv series with Clive Barker involved and then the Hulu movie which Clive Barker is not involved with?

 

[Pennywise]

https://www.gamesradar.com/halloween-kills-director-talks-working-on-new-exorcist-trilogy/

Halloween Kills is arriving to theaters imminently, but director David Gordon Green is busy with a fresh take on another iconic horror franchise: The Exorcist. If that's not enough, he's also got a series based on Hellraiser in the works, too.

"Hellraiser is on other writing shoulders," Green points out to SFX Magazine. "We've got some really strong writers, but they're working on that. So that's waiting to be delivered. But right now I have written the first of three Exorcist movies. That was my pandemic project and a very different exercise than Halloween, it's much more researched and academic and it's approaching the genre from a different direction than a slasher movie. Both are really fun, both are really intimidating because they're following in the footsteps of the masterful horror films that I grew up with.

 

[Lily Adler]

So we're getting two Hellraiser things, one a tv series with Clive Barker involved and then the Hulu movie which Clive Barker is not involved with?

Yeah I started to think that the film was going to be a prequel to this for a second.

 

[Pennywise]

Good to hear this is still in the works, even though I imagine Gordon-Green not directing any episodes anymore.

 

[Sawyer]

I mean, depending on timing, I could still see him setting things up with the first episode.

 

[Pennywise]

Hellraiser TV series: David Gordon Green says the show is still in early stages

Here’s how the Hellraiser talk between Green and Joe Bob went:

JBB: You’re doing a Hellraiser TV series, right?

DGG: Right. Yeah, we’re in just the early stages of putting that together right now with HBO.

JBB: Are you working with Clive Barker on that?

DGG: I haven’t communicated with him yet, but apparently he has just now joined the project.

JBB: Haven’t there already been 14 Hellraisers?

DGG: There have been a lot of Hellraisers, some good and some a little bit less than good.

JBB: Have you watched them all?

DGG: I have not watched all of them. That’s a project that I need to do a little bit more of my homework on. I was a huge fan of the first one, and Clive Barker’s original short story is really wonderful and inspiring.

JBB: Would Doug Bradley be involved at all?

DGG: I like that idea. But that’s a complicated property, like a lot of these titles that have evolved over the years with various ownerships and relationships that some are good, some aren’t good. So there’s a movie project in one part of town and a TV series in another, so we’re trying to get clarity on it.

JBB: Yeah, that thing got cut up into like nineteen different pieces.

DGG: It’s like real estate with your siblings when you inherit something, there’s all these different – who’s who and what’s what, who knows?