Welcome to Films on the Horizon....

This page will allow you to keep up-to-date on Clive's current slate of film and TV projects.

If you have any film news you'd like to share, you can email me here: pickman@unfilmable.com

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FILMS

THE ABARAT QUARTET

Production company: Disney
Directed by: TBD
Cast: TBD
Plot: Based on the childrens series "The Abarat Quartet". Read more about the deal with Disney here.
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Status: unknown
Source: http://www.clivebarker.com/

BLOODY MARY

Producer: Clive Barker and Touchstone
Directed by: TBD
Cast: TBD
Plot: Read more about the deal and movie here. Read the article that inspired the movie here.
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Status:
Source: http://www.clivebarker.com/

update: Clive told Lost Souls "we have somebody, this is not a name you would know, a guy who was one of the producers on a bunch of sort of independent hits over the last couple years. He's going to come on and help us co-produce. We are going to end up getting that made next year, which is great." Bloody Mary will not be made through a major studio.

DAMNATION GAME

Production company: TBD
Directed by: TBD
Cast: TBD
Plot: Based on the novel "Damnation Game". Read the article from Daily Variety here.
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Status: unknown
Source: http://www.clivebarker.com/

update: Warner Bros are looking to bring in the writer of a great horror movie of yore to come and do a final draft of Damnation Game. Clive would not release the name of the writer because it not a sure thing yet, but Clive told Lost Souls,"I hate to be so coy about this, but if he gets to do it, I feel he will bring it on home and then we can make that movie."

DEMONOLOGIST

Production company: NBC
Directed by: TBD
Cast: TBD
Plot: Revolves around a married couple who fight demons.
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Status: unknown
Source: http://www.creature-corner.com/

DREAD

Production company: Seraphim and FOX studios
Directed by: TBD
Cast: TBD
Plot: Based on the short story "Dread" from the Books of Blood.
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Status: Seraphim is currently hiring a writer for this project.
Source: http://www.clivebarker.com/

update: Clive told Lost Souls, "We have a draft, and again I hope that's a movie we can get going next year."

ECTO KID

Production company: Nickelodeon Movies and Paramout Pictures
Directed by: TBD
Cast: TBD
Plot: Based on the comicbook "Ecto-Kid". Click here to read more.
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Status: This project is currently hiring writer to adapt Clive's treatment.
Source: http://www.clivebarker.com/

THE EVIL ONE (formerly EVIL)

Production company: Seraphim and the SCI FI channel
Directed by: TBD
Cast: TBD
Plot: The plotline of this possible SCI FI channel series is unknown at this time.
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Status: This project is currently in the treatment stage.
Source: http://www.clivebarker.com/

update: Originally titled Evil. Clive has submitted the first 2 hours of what will hopefully be a series on the Sci-Fi Channel with the working title The Evil One. Clive told Lost Souls, "I'm very excited about the idea of taking evil as the subject. I hope they don't think it is too dark."

HELLRAISER: DEADER

Production company: Dimension Films
Directed by: Rick Bota
Cast: Doug Bradley (I) and Kari Wuhrer
Plot: A journalist uncovers an underground group who can bring back the dead and slowly becomes drawn into their world.
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0337636/
Status: This project is currently in post-production.
Source: http://us.imdb.com/

update: Both Hellraiser sequels are being pushed back to a Spring 2004 release.

HELLRAISER: HELLWORLD

Production company: Dimension Films
Directed by: Rick Bota
Cast: Doug Bradley (I), Lance Henriksen and Katheryn Winnick
Plot: Pinhead returns to terrorize computer hackers that have opened a virtual Lament Configuration on the website Hellworld.com.
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0354623/
Status: This project is currently in post-production.
Source: http://us.imdb.com/

update: Both Hellraiser sequels are being pushed back to a Spring 2004 release.

LORD OF ILLUSIONS (The sequel)

Production company: TBD
Directed by: TBD
Cast: TBD
Plot: Sequel of the movie "Lord of Illusions".
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Status: unknown
Source: http://www.clivebarker.com/

LORD OF ILLUSIONS (the series)

Production company: Seraphim and MGM
Directed by: TBD
Cast: TBD
Plot: Based on the movie "Lord of Illusions".
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Status: The pilot script for "Lord of Illusions" the series, written by Rick Ramage (Stigmata), is completed and awaiting a green-light from Showtime.
Source: http://www.clivebarker.com/

MICHAEL VS PINHEAD (aka HELLOWEEN)

Production company: Dimension
Directed by: John Carpenter (rumor)
Cast: TBD
Plot: A combination of the Hellraiser and Halloween franchises similar Freddy vs. Jason.
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Status: unknown
Source: http://www.creature-corner.com/

update: Various sources have confirmed that this project has been canceled.

THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN

Production company: independent studio
Directed by: TBD
Cast: TBD
Plot: Based on the short story "The Midnight Meat Train" from the Books of Blood.
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Status: Clive announced to Lost souls that he has turned in a draft for the Midnight Meat Train, and hopes to begin on it sometime in 2004.
Source: http://www.clivebarker.com/

TORTURED SOULS: ANIMAE DAMNATAE

Production company: Seraphim (Clive Barker) and Todd McFarlane
Directed by: Clive Barker
Cast: TBD
Plot: Based on the Tortured Souls - Animae Damnatae figures released by McFarlane Toys. The story centers on a man who decides he wants to be rid of his wife in favor of a more interesting life. The man "exchanges" his wife for a demon goddess from another world, throwing her into a shadowy world of monsters - one from which she must escape and return to his everyday world to rescue their child and vanquish the demon.
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0301252/
Status: Hans Rodionoff will write the script based on Clive Barker's treatment (which is based on the novella that is sold as inividual chapters with each of the figures outlining the "Souls" origin).
Source: http://www.clivebarker.com/

update: Clive told Lost Souls, "the final draft coming in in two weeks time. Then that will go to Universal, and hopefully we'll start to make that movie, and that will be great. At least that's what we plan."

update: Clive has just been hired to write the next draft and to direct Tortured Souls -the movie.

WEAVEWORLD

Production company: Showtime
Directed by: TBD
Cast: TBD
Plot: Based on the novel "Weaveworld".
Release date: TBD
Website: NA
IMDb: NA
Status: Stephen Molton is currently re-writing the six hour miniseries. Showtime hopes to start Production in 2003.
Source: http://www.clivebarker.com/

update: Clive is just waiting for the go ahead from Showtime to begin the mini-series. Clive told Lost Souls, "We have someone who wants to direct, a place to go shoot it,and we have a marvelous script for television."

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For a more comprehensive listing of films and TV projects 'still to come' check out the great Clive Barker: Revelations website.

From "Coldheart Canyon" and "Nightbreed 2 and 3" to "The Thief of Always" and "History of the Devil", they have it covered....

Click here for more.

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OTHER PROJECTS


Music and Art DVD project

Clive Barker and Johnathan Davis (KORN) are working on a DVD that will feature Clive's art and Davis' music.

Read more about it here.

update: Clive told Lost Souls he has submitted his paintings to Korn to use as a starting point for several pieces of music. He is now waiting for a composition from korn to use as a starting place for a painting.

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