Director David Gordon Green commented on the fact that his upcoming Hellraiser HBO series will be competing with Hulu's reboot film. Hulu's Hellraiser film, which is led by Sense8 actress Jamie Clayton, also stars Odessa A’zion, Brandon Flynn, Goran Visnjic, Drew Starkey, Adam Faison, Aoife Hinds, and Hiam Abbass. The project was directed by David Bruckner and is due to release sometime in 2022. This version of Hellraiser has already wrapped filming, so it's currently in post-production.
Both projects have original Hellraiser writer-director Clive Barker on board as a producer, though progress on the HBO series seemed to stall after it was announced in late 2020. The show was set to be helmed by Battlestar Galactica showrunner Mark Verheiden with David Gordon Green and Trick r' Treat's Michael Dougherty set as directors. Although plot details are more or less nonexistent, the show is described as a continuation of the existing Hellraiser mythology.
While speaking with EW about his film Halloween Kills, which is currently #1 at the box office, David Gordon Green confirmed that the HBO Hellraiser project is still in production, though it doesn't have a script yet. When asked if he was concerned about competing with the Hulu film, his answer was rather surprising. He insisted that it's going to be "a fun cultural experiment" because of how dissimilar the two projects are going to be, with "a different platform, different concept, [and] different creators." Read the full quote below:
It's going to be fascinating because it's a different platform, different concept, different creators, but the same properties. I’m not sure where that ends up and how that goes, but I'm very curious. It is a fun cultural experiment, right? To think there's a crew with a concept for a series [and] a crew with a concept for a movie taking the same mythology. I don't know, does it become like Deep Impact and Armageddon?
Hellraiser is merely the latest major horror franchise that David Gordon Green has been connected with. In addition to directing Halloween 2018, he was originally attached to the Suspiria remake that ended up being helmed by Luca Guadagnino. Among his extant projects including the Hellraiser series and the Halloween trilogy, he is also attached to give The Exorcist the Halloween treatment, producing a reboot/sequel trilogy based on the legendary demonic possession film.
As a horror fan, it makes sense that David Gordon Green would have this feeling about competing with the Hellraiser film. Experimentation with similar IPs is relatively common throughout the history of horror franchises including The Exorcist, which saw the release of Renny Harlin's Exorcist: The Beginning and Paul Schrader's Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist a year apart even though they were both different interpretations of the same premise that shared most of the same lead cast. Even more recently, the 2019 Child's Play remake butted heads with the production of the television series Chucky, which is currently airing. Horror fans are usually happy to devour as much material as possible from their favorite franchises as long as they don't completely disrespect the source material, so the spirit of experimentation rather than competition is a completely reasonable approach.
Source: EW
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