'Hellraiser': HBO Has Such Sights to Show Fans with New Series

This morning, Deadline exclusively revealed that HBO has made a deal to develop a series from the classic horror franchise Hellraiser. Not only will our favorite Cenobites reunite on the small screen, but they will be getting help from Halloween (2018) director David Gordon Green. The series will mark the first television versions of Pinhead and his fellow Cenobites.

David Gordon Green
HBO
Hellraiser — David Gordon Green

In 2018, Green successfully brought John Carpenter’s classic Halloween storyline up-to-date, making $255 million worldwide. He also signed on to direct both sequels Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends. Halloween Kills is currently in post production. Green is set to direct the new series pilot and several more of the early episodes.

Mark Verheiden (Battlestar Gallactica, Daredevil, Heroes), and Michael Dougherty (X-Men United, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Trick r’ Treat) are set to co-write the series. Last June, the rights package was put together, based on the Hellraiser film franchise hatched from Clive Barker’s novella The Hellbound Heart.

Deadline also confirms that this will not attempt to remake the story but instead give fans more. “The idea is to create an elevated continuation and expansion of the well-established Hellraiser mythology. It is by no means a remake, but rather assumes the past mythology to be a given. The centerpiece remains Pinhead, the pin cushion-headed merciless leader of the Cenobites, the formerly humans-turned-demons that live in an extra-dimensional realm and are activated through a puzzle box called the Lament Configuration. The Cenobites come from hell to harvest human souls and keep balance between good and evil.”

It is also important to note that there is a separate Hellraiser film project in development at Spyglass that is unrelated to the series. Be sure to follow ScaryNerd for more of all things horror!

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