What has happened to the Hellraiser TV series?

We are nearly a year since David Bruckner’s Hellraiser feature reboot, but what has become of the David Gordon Green-helmed television series?

First mooted in April 2020, Green was eyed to direct the initial episodes of the HBO-produced series, with Mark Verheiden (Battlestar Galactica, Daredevil, Heroes), and Michael Dougherty (X-Men United, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Trick r’ Treat) as part of the writing team.

Deadline reported at the time, saying,

The idea is to create an elevated continuation and expansion of the well-established Hellraiser mythology. It is by no means a remake but rather assumes the past mythology to be a given. Expect a revisit from Pinhead, the merciless leader of the Cenobites, the formerly humans-turned-demons that live in an extra-dimensional realm and are activated through a puzzle box called the Lament Configuration. The Cenobites come from hell to harvest human souls and keep a balance between good and evil.

Green updated in October 2021, speaking to EW during the promotional tour of Halloween Kills, he said;

“We’ve got it over at HBO, and that’s not in script form yet, but it’s being developed,” Gordon Green explained to EW. “It’s going to be fascinating because it’s a different platform, different concept, different creators, but the same properties. I’m not sure where that ends up and how that goes, but I’m very curious.”

Gordon Green adds, “It is a fun cultural experiment, right? To think there’s a crew with a concept for a series [and] a crew with a concept for a movie taking the same mythology. I don’t know, does it become like Deep Impact and Armageddon?”

Green has since concluded his Halloween trilogy with last year’s Halloween Ends and has now moved onto a trilogy for Blumhouse for The Exorcist, with The Exorcist: Believer hitting cinemas in October with its sequel The Exorcist: Deceiver set for a 2024 release.

Has the combination of Green’s busy schedule and the strikes in Hollywood put paid to a new interpretation of Hellraiser?

Critically Bruckner’s Hellraiser was well-received, including Jamie Clayton’s Hell Priestess, but it was dumped unceremoniously on streaming in October 2022 and later on a barebones DVD in the UK.

Following Hellraiser 2022, would you like to see a TV adaptation of Clive Barker’s classic tale or would you prefer a sequel to Bruckner’s film?

Let us know in the comments.