It producer Roy Lee and Ready Player One producer Dan Farah have positioned themselves to bring to the small screen for the first time Hellraiser, the iconic horror franchise anchored by the malevolent straight out of hell villain, Pinhead, reports Deadline. Those producers have joined forced with producer/rights holders Lawrence Kuppin, David Salzman and Eric Gardner, who have controlled those TV rights since New World was sold in 1989.
The intention is to use the mythology established in the movie franchise and the Clive Barker novella The Hellbound Heart as a launch pad for a new series that could be anthology, or a more traditional narrative. The producers will first set a writer-showrunner before setting it at a network or streamer,The feature rights are separately controlled by Spyglass, which isn’t part of this configuration. David Goyer is writing and producing.