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'Hellraiser' Remake Goes to Laugier?
Source: thehollywoodreporter
Director, Pascal Laugier, whose horror film Martyrs stirred controversy for its brutality, is in final negotiations to write and direct a remake of Clive Barker's classic Hellraiser.
"Hellraiser" (1987) told the story of an unfaithful wife who attempts to assist her dead lover in his escape from hell and featured Pinhead, a character that went on to be a horror classic. Pinhead could be summoned using an antique puzzle box.
Dimension has been hoping to relaunch the franchise for the past couple of years, first hiring Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo to write and direct a remake then tapping Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton to write a new draft.
"This is a dream project for me," Laugier said. "I know Clive Barker's work very well, and I would never betray what he has done. Fans are expecting a definitive 'Hellraiser,' and I don't want to take that away from them."
The remake is part of Dimension chief Bob Weinstein's master plan.
"If I could make all my films from franchises, I would," the Weinstein Co. co-chairman said at the recent Media and Money conference in New York. At the event, presented by Dow Jones and the Nielsen Co., parent company of The Hollywood Reporter, he rattled off a list of other films that he hopes to continue sequelizing, including "Scream" and "Scary Movie."
Director, Pascal Laugier, whose horror film Martyrs stirred controversy for its brutality, is in final negotiations to write and direct a remake of Clive Barker's classic Hellraiser.
"Hellraiser" (1987) told the story of an unfaithful wife who attempts to assist her dead lover in his escape from hell and featured Pinhead, a character that went on to be a horror classic. Pinhead could be summoned using an antique puzzle box.
Dimension has been hoping to relaunch the franchise for the past couple of years, first hiring Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo to write and direct a remake then tapping Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton to write a new draft.
"This is a dream project for me," Laugier said. "I know Clive Barker's work very well, and I would never betray what he has done. Fans are expecting a definitive 'Hellraiser,' and I don't want to take that away from them."
The remake is part of Dimension chief Bob Weinstein's master plan.
"If I could make all my films from franchises, I would," the Weinstein Co. co-chairman said at the recent Media and Money conference in New York. At the event, presented by Dow Jones and the Nielsen Co., parent company of The Hollywood Reporter, he rattled off a list of other films that he hopes to continue sequelizing, including "Scream" and "Scary Movie."
Tags: hellraiser, laugier, pascal, remake
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Comment by Tyler on October 29, 2008 at 9:39pm - at least his heart's in the right place. i don't know much about this movie, but there is always a risk in a reboot. cause no director really wants to shoot the same movie with the addition of CG; they want to take a classic and make it an AFI list topper, meaning they'll take their own liberties. and being creative is great . . . but it's hard to be creative with somebody else's work and not lose what made it their own
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Comment by Chig Champa on October 29, 2008 at 8:41pm - Anyone who says they want to live up to fan expectations and not betray their hopes is sprinting towards complete and utter failure.
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Comment by Max on October 29, 2008 at 6:12pm - shhhhhiiiiiit
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Comment by MDS on October 29, 2008 at 1:50pm - Ok, Hellraiser is one of those oddball projects. The concept was something that Clive did on his own, as well as the original director and writer. I'm afraid that taking ANY Hellraiser away from Clive will bring us stuff we've had to deal with over the years since Hellraiser 2. That's why we are in a state of people wanting to do a 'reboot'. I'm sorry, just drop the 'reboot' part and go with a DIRECT sequel that ignores Hellraiser 3+. The whole concept of rebooting the Hellraiser franchise means you are going to remove aspects of 1 and 2 (By far the best works of Clive Barker for years) and that's going to loose some of the feel for the whole Pinhead feeling. Plus, I'm not sure I would feel any appeal for a new actor doing Pinhead. It's a lot like someone coming around and doing a new Santa Claus as a black midget with 2 heads... it's not the same thing.
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Comment by chemicalbrotha on October 29, 2008 at 12:32pm - hell yeah!! I loved Inside!
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