Last year, Clive Barker announced that he’s set to reboot the Hellraiser franchise by writing and directing a new take on his original 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, and now the British author has provided an update to Entertainment Weekly, confirming that a second draft has been handed in, as well as touching upon details of the story for what he describes as a “very loose” remake:
“I think the phrase is ‘reboot,’ although I’ve never really understood what that meant. I wanted to make sure we sounded some fresh notes. The movie actually begins on Devil’s Island. I wanted to fold into the Hellraiser narrative something about the guy—the Frenchman Lemarchand—who made the mysterious box, which raises Pinhead. I figured, ‘Well, what would have happened to him?’ He might well have been taken to Devil’s Island and I thought that would be a pretty cool place to start the movie. We’re waiting for [Bob Weinstein] to come back to us and see when we’re going to actually make the movie.”
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Originally published November 5, 2014. Updated February 28, 2020.
