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Dimension can’t decide what it wants out of a Hellraiser remake. Over the past few years the company has attached at least three filmmakers or teams — Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (Inside); Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton (Feast and the Saw series); and Pascal Laugier (Martyrs) to write and/or direct new takes on the original.
But all those teams have quit or otherwise moved on, and Dimension continues to dither over how to re-do Clive Barker’s 1987 film for new audiences. But there’s a sticky rights issue, and you may have recently heard rumblings about a new film over the last week or so. That’s not the remake, but rather a direct to DVD film intended to keep the series at Dimension.
THR says that the film going into production now — Hellraiser: Revelations — is going forward because the company risked losing rights to the series by the end of this year if a film wasn’t greenlit.
Revelations is directed by Victor Garcia from a script by longtime Hellraiser effects guy Gary Tunnicliffe. Peta Wilson stars, and Doug Bradley will not return as Pinhead, the Cenobite who, despite a very small amount of screen time in the first film became the figurehead for the series.
The film follows, according to B-D, “two friends who unleash Pinhead…one of the friends has a change of heart. He backs out on his oath hoping to swap himself out with one of his friend’s family members. [And] there will be a male and female cenobite escorting Pinhead around town, with a new “Pseudo-Pinhead” being introduced.”
If you’re hungry for all the details on this ninth film in the series, Moviehole has a full casting breakdown.
I really wanted to see the Bustillo and Maury incarnation of Hellraiser; after seeing Inside I thought they were absolutely right for the job. And the Laugier one was interesting as well, though I’m not as big a fan of Martyrs. Most recently Christian E. Christiansen was in talks to direct the remake, but that has ended, too.
According to THR’s source, Dimension is approaching this in exactly the method you’d be afraid of, reportedly “chasing the hot genre writer or director of the moment then moving on when it doesn’t mesh with the company’s vision or when the initial excitement wears off.”
Barker’s original film still works; I just saw it projected after not having caught it for years, and it played perfectly for the audience. It’s a small, creepy movie with a lot of potential for a remake and I’d be happy to see someone get the chance, if only Dimension would have the confidence to back it.
Columbia Pictures has launched the official website for David Finsher’s The Social Network at TheSocialNetwork-Movie.com, and in doing so, have released 46 high resolution photos, both stills from the movie and promotional photos taken for the film. Check them out now, embedded after the jump. Click over to The Social Network website and you’ll hear music in the background, which just might be a piece of the score which was composed by Trent Reznor for the film. Just a guess…
The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer and Rooney Mara. Columbia Pictures has given the film a rumored $47 million budget. Based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, The Social Network tells the story of Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg, the founders of Facebook. The screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin, and the 162-page first draft has been described as “Unpredictable, Funny, Touching and Sad.”
The trailer was found on mashable.
Here is the official description from the 272 page book :
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friendsâ"outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptanceâ"and sexual successâ"was getting invited to join one of the universityâs Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top of the inflexible hierarchy at Harvard. Mark, with less of an interest in what the campus alpha males thought of him, happened to be a computer genius of the first order. Which he used to find a more direct route to social stardom: one lonely night, Mark hacked into the university’s computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campusâ"and subsequently crashing the university’s servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of schoo! l. In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was born.
What followedâ"a real-life adventure filled with slick venture capitalists, stunning women, and six-foot-five-inch identical-twin Olympic rowersâ"makes for one of the most entertaining and compelling books of the year. Before long, Eduardoâs and Markâs different ideas about Facebook created in their relationship faint cracks, which soon spiraled into out-and-out warfare. The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people together, its very success tore two best friends apart. The Accidental Billionaires is a compulsively readable story of innocence lostâ"and of the unusual creation of a company that has revolutionized the way hundreds of millions of people relate to one another.
The book is available on Amazon for $16.50 ($25 cover price).