From the beginning filmmaker David Gordon Green has had an omnivorous taste and modeled his career after directors like Steven Soderbergh or Gus Van Sant, able to handle indies, studio films, and everything in between. The result is Green has made a lot of films over the years, but aside from the mainstream comedies for Judd Apatow, not many have been super successful financially. That finally changed with Green’s 2018 “Halloween,” remake which made $255 million worldwide, far and away the filmmaker’s biggest hit. Green, perhaps sensing a niche to fill, and a moment, went back to the horror well right away—back to back films “Halloween Kills” and “Halloween Ends” arrive in theaters October 16, 2020, and October 15, 2021, respectively if all goes according to (COVID-19 susceptible) plan.
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But that’s not the end of Green’s horror run. HBO has announced the development of a “Hellraiser” series and Green is on board to direct a pilot, and additional episodes of the project based on the movie series and the Clive Barker novella “The Hellbound Heart.”
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Writers Mark Verheiden (“Ash vs. Evil Dead,” “Battlestar Galactica”) and Michael Dougherty (“Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” “Trick ‘r Treat”) are leading the project and the potential series—if it gets picked up— is based on the “Hellraiser’ movie franchise, which currently counts ten films. Wait, you ask, doesn’t Spyglass Media already have a film reboot feature-length film in development from writer/producer David S. Goyer (Christopher Nolan‘s ‘Dark Knight‘ trilogy)? Correct, and this HBO project is separate, but will continue to expand the well-known mythology of the ‘Hellraiser’ franchise, which centers the evil beings known as Cenobites, led by the character Pinhead.
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This ‘Hellraiser’ will be a Rough House Pictures project: Green’s company with pal Danny McBride and they have a longstanding relationship with HBO now having produced several shows for the cable company including “Eastbound & Down,” “Vice Principals” and “The Righteous Gemstones.” Green, Verheidenand Dougherty, will all executive produce the show as well. [THR]
