Y’know what we could all use during these troubled times? Some light, easy, feel-good entertainment. What’s that? Per Deadline, HBO is developing a Hellraiser TV series based on Clive Barker‘s notorious, graphically violent, gothically vulgar horror property? Hmm. Well. I guess that works, too.
Best known from Barker’s 1987 horror classic, based on his own 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, Hellraiser has since spawned a multiple feature-film franchise, and embedded Pinhead, the leading monstrous Cenobite who’s got, well, pins in his head into our cultural consciousness alongside luminaries like Jason and Michael Myers. And speaking of Michael Myers, it’s David Gordon Green, who recently helmed the well-regarded Halloween reboot for the big screen, who will be directing many of the initial episodes, including the pilot.
Green, Dougherty, and Verheiden all serve as executive producers alongside Dan and Andrew Farah (Ready Player One), Roy Lee (It), Lawrence Kuppin (Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth), David Salzman (MADtv), Eric Gardner (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), Danny McBride (Halloween), Jody Hill (The Righteous Gemstones), Brandon James (Vice Principals), and Adam Salzman (MADtv).
via Collider