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Barker To Pen Hellraiser Remake |
Clive Barker said on his official website that The Weinstein Co. has asked him and he has agreed to write a remake of his 1987 horror film Hellraiser
, but that he will not be directing it. "They're going to remake Hellraiser 1 with a lot more money, and they've invited me to write it—the invitation came from Bob Weinstein—which I am going to do, on the basis that if I don't do it, it will be done in some way that I probably won't like!" Barker wrote. "It's only that one that I really, really, really care about in terms of its remake value—and it'll be kind of fun to have the extra money to do the effects and all that cool stuff."
The first Hellraiser is the only one of the long-running horror franchise that Barker both wrote and directed. "So it puts me in the situation of writing both the beginning and the end of Pinhead at the same time—'In my end is my beginning.' I'm not in the middle, as it were," Barker wrote. "I'm leaving out his middle age. I'm just dealing with his beginning and his end."
Barker added: "I'm excited about it—actually it'll be kinda cool to revisit it once and see if there are things we can do to it which will make it significantly better. ... I wouldn't wish to direct—I only want to write and be a part of the producing team.
I wouldn't want to revisit something that I did as a director, something that I did all those years ago: That would be too, in a way, painful—not painful, but weird, difficult, strange. ... I am very happy at the idea of having some more money for the cool stuff—I don't know how much more money, but it's got to be more than the $900,000 that we had the first time!" ....
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