Pinhead may well get back on HBO

US filmmaker David Gordon Green has taken on HBO project to direct pilot episode based on the 1987 movie series 'Hellraiser'. 

HBO is developing the potential TV series based on the Hellraiser movie franchise with  most recently 2018's ‘Hellraiser: Judgment’.

The project will be a continuation and expansion of the film series centering on a group of evil beings from hell known as Cenobites..

The as-yet untitled series will be based on the original 1987 film as an adaptation of Clive Barker’s novella ‘The Hellbound Heart’, with Doug Bradley starring as the franchise’s famous antagonist ‘Pinhead’.

David Gordon Green (2018’s Halloween) is set to direct several initial episodes. Barker is not currently involved with the HBO project.

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