Almost a year ago, Spyglass Media Group had announced the production of the reboot of Hellraiser, Clive Barker's celebrated horror franchise. Already involved in the project was David S. Goyer (the screenwriter of Dark City, Blade, The Dark Knight) who, in addition to producing the film together with Gary Barber, also handled the script providing his own reinterpretation of the iconic Pinhead and the other Cenobites.
These days there has been renewed talk about the reboot regarding the choice of director and screenwriters.
Directing the new Hellraiser will indeed be David Bruckner on a screenplay by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski.
David Bruckner is best known for directing the episodes "Amateur Night" e "The Accident" respectively in the horror anthology V/H/S and Southbound - Highway to Hell. In 2017 it is the turn of the The ritual while in 2020 he was responsible for directing The Night House.
Hellraiser (1987) is the first installment in the franchise to which nine sequels are attached. Written and directed by Clive Barker, the film is based on the short horror novel Slaves of hell (The Hellbound Heart) by the same director. Hellraiser: Judgment (2018), the ninth sequel in the saga (unpublished in Italy), is directed by Gary J. Tunnicliffe.
The history of all the chapters of Hellraiser is connected to a cube called the "Configuration of Lamentations" or "Lemarchand Box." It is an object with a puzzle structure that, when solved, opens the door to the dimension of pain, hell. Here the Cenobites will drag those who opened the box so they can torture them forever.
