...Variety report that Clive is to executive produce this psychological thriller directed by Daniel Simpson for the ClearVision
Media Production Group. Guillermo del Toro,
Lawrence Gordon and Lloyd Levin (all producing Hellboy II) will produce this movie based on the horrors of a claymation
artist whose figures are acting out a nightmare that comes to life. Clive has had a hand in Daniel Simpson and Paul Kaye's script
which was set to start production in the UK on 9 August 2007 with Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany starring. Despite Fangoria
reporting that the duo do not now plan to be involved, December 2007 sees Bloody Disgusting report that Paul remains in the film,
but not Jennifer, with shooting planned for February 2008...
Melissa Wegman (company president, CEO ClearVision Media Production Group : "We are delighted that Jennifer and
Paul have committed to this project and look forward to beginning production later this summer in the U.K. Dan[iel Simpson] and
Paul [Kaye] have written a unique script that will transform into an amazing feature film."
Born In The UK Mid-August - Press Release
By [ ], ClearVision Media Production Group, 8 June 2007
Press Release : "Born is a chilling exploration of a relationship between a couple who thought they had found the perfect
place to start a family and pursue their professional dreams. Their idyllic community turns harrowing as they find themselves caught
in a terrifying struggle between the past, present and the future."
Born In The UK Mid-August - Press Release
By [ ], ClearVision Media Production Group, 8 June 2007
Synopsis : " A young couple. A quaint English village.
A deadly secret.
This is the world of Born. Combining elements of The Sixth Sense, The Wicker Man, Rosemary's Baby, and Straw Dogs,
Born tells the story of a couple who thought they had found the perfect place to start a family and pursue their professional dreams,
only to find themselves caught in a terrifying supernatural plot.
Joe and Vanessa thought they had everything. They've settled in an idyllic English town that will be perfect for both raising their
unborn child and for Joe to build his dream claymation workshop. From the local hospitality to the rich red molding clay found in
the town quarry, it would seem they've settled in paradise.
But something isn't quite right.
The locals are almost too friendly, and while using the clay Joe begins to have eerie visions of a young girl's murder. Gradually, the
story being told in his animation foreshadows the fate of Joe and Vanessa, leading Born to a terrifying conclusion that will shock
audiences, leaving them breathless."
Born - Synopsis
By [ ], ClearVision Media Production Group, June 2007
...Another challenge for the MPAA... Just a few short days after industry rumours had Barker sending sets of the Tortured
Souls figures to studios as a speculative pitch for a feature, early November 2001 saw both Variety and Hollywood Reporter proclaiming that
Universal had picked up the movie rights (for a mid six-figure sum against $2 million) to what they may be hoping
will form the basis of a new franchise - the Universal deal is for three pictures.
Seraphim and McFarlane have reportedly managed to get their own Joe Daley and Terry Fitzgerald
(respectively) attached as co-producers along with Barker and Todd McFarlane. Barker completed a treatment which Hans Rodionoff
(who had writing duties on Saint Sinner) worked up into a screenplay.
A whole year passed in silence until, in December 2003, Lost Souls broke the news that Barker was back on writing duties himself
for a new re-write - and that he had signed up to direct the movie...
The storyline is reported to involve a diabolical pact with a man swapping his wife for a demon goddess - Lucidique. She is
thereby banished to a monstrous world from which she must escape if she is to save her child and overthrow the demon.
McFarlane continue to be extremely encouraging about the progress of the project, having received initial sketches from Clive to
accompany the screenplay which McFarlane and Universal have been discussing with him. Latest news (see below) is that
Universal have given the project more time, in which Todd McFarlane will work on a further rewrite. Meanwhile, Clive is concentrating
his own efforts on other projects and it is unlikely that he will personally direct Tortured Souls...
See our toys and games
pages for more comment on the figures themselves...
"We're really looking forward to pursuing a film featuring these characters. Ideally that will work out."
Clive From New York
By [ ], McFarlane.com, 13 February 2001 (N.B. full text available
at www.mcfarlane.com)
[Re Six Destinies] "I don't think there is a book in there, but there's certainly a movie. The city of Primordium, which is where all this
takes place, that's a city that I'll definitely be visiting again."
Souls' Survivor
By Anthony C. Ferrante, Cinescape, Issue 56, January 2002
"There's a lot of excitement over at Universal about having that [Tortured Souls] project as a movie. That's going to be a fast-track
project as well."
Open Roads... What Price Wonderland?
By Phil and Sarah Stokes,
3 April 2002 (note - full text here)
"Yes, we did [recently hire a screenwriter]. I'm delighted; there seems to be real passion at Universal for the project, which is great,
and I feel that Universal is the 'home of monsters'. In some ways, it's the perfect place for us to be."
Clive Barker, Author
By Gina McIntyre, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 October 2002
"That project is coming along nicely. We've got a writer who's working from a very detailed treatment of mine, and of course we
already have all of the monsters designed. So I'm very confident in the development process. We should be off to the races. We
feel that it could become a franchise."
Saint Clive
By Chris Wyatt and Anthony C. Ferrante, Cinescape, Issue 66 and 67,
November / December 2002
"Tortured Souls we have what we hope is 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."
Confessions
By Craig Fohr, Lost Souls, 1 August 2003 (note - full text online at Lost Souls - see links page)
“I’m turning in the script in four weeks, and if Universal likes it, they’re prepared to go into production right away. I’ve taken the
Tortured Souls toys and really expanded their universe, so it’ll be different than what fans are expecting.”
Clive Barker Update On Tortured Souls
By [ ], Fangoria.com, 29 January 2004 (note - full text online at www.fangoria.com)
“Our heroine is transported to Primordium, which is a place of darkness and horror and monsters, and now she
has to figure out a way to survive, along with a way to get back for three reasons: one, she wants to get back
for her son who's only four years old; second, she wants to fuck over her husband for sending her to this place;
and thirdly, she wants to deal with that bitch who's in her bed.
"These are adult people with adult problems. The battles which will be fought will not just be fought for the
sheer physical effect. The effects should look great, the monsters should be cool but also, because there's
something at stake here, you care about somebody. It's all about human interest.”
Barker Promises 'Intense' Return To The Genre
By Jen Vuckovic, Rue Morgue, No 39, May/June 2004
“I’m going to make a movie for Universal, called Tortured Souls... An incredibly violent picture, based upon a
series of models that I created with Todd McFarlane and my team here, called The Tortured Souls. And it’s fun to play in these two
areas; to dabble in something a little, you know, dark for a while, just for a year to make this movie, I’ll be doing that. ”
Barnes and Noble Stage Presentation
By Brein Lopez, LA Festival of Books, 2004
"I came home to address the notes which Universal had given me, which are not massive, on the draft which I'm now working on - it's
in front of me here. And I will, that's what I will work on 'til it's delivered, which hopefully will be sometime later in the summer. It will
then be Universal's choice to make it or not make it. In the meantime, I'll get on with finishing the collection of short stories while
they're making up their minds, because that's never as short a process as you think it's going to be. You hope they're going to come
back to you in a week, in the end it's always months and that's just the way it is; there's nothing to do about it...
[Early 2005 decision on Tortured Souls?] "I think probably that's exactly the timing. The truth is I'm on tour for Abarat II anyway
through some portions of October / November, so I couldn't even begin prepping a movie even if they said so. They wouldn't begin in
December because nobody starts prepping a movie in December - you go into hiatus December 14th anyway. So the earliest we
could possibly start something would be January. And by that time, yes, I would hope I would have an answer - absolutely."
In Anticipation Of The Deluge: A Moment At The River's Edge
By Phil and Sarah Stokes,
1 and 12 July 2004 (note - full text here)
"It will be taking elements of the story, character elements, little stories
from the models, but it goes off in its own, very particular direction, and
it's a story I really look forward to telling, I'm very excited about the
prospect of getting out there and shedding the romantic cloth. It's a very
scary story, actually."
The Clive Barker Interview
By Brett Alexander Savory,
IROSF.com, Vol I, No. 8, 21 August 2004
"I just turned in the screenplay for Tortured Souls to Universal. They are reading it right now, and if they like it, hopefully I will
direct that myself next year... There’s also something to be said for being released from the day-to-day rhythm of writing in the
morning and afternoon, having a workout and then going to paint, which is practically my seven-day regime. I don’t think it hurts
to break that rhythm for a year to make a movie. I want to make a horror movie; I want to make a scary movie; I’ve never lost my
interest in that. And Tortured Souls is a damn good story, so we’ll see what Universal thinks."
Clive Barker’s Dark Plans
By Joe Nazzaro, www.fangoria.com, 2 December 2004 (note: interview took place in October 2004)
"So... I finish all the drafts for Universal and the people I'm dealing with at Universal are really cool people and one of them says, 'I
don't think we're going to make this movie,' and I said, 'OK... Why?' and they said, 'Because I think we're going to have to make
another movie with demons in it and we don't want to be making two demon movies...'
"And, you know, I've been this way before, there's no use trying to persuade somebody, I mean a corporate decision is a corporate
decision. But what I do have is a lot of
people around town who would like to make this movie, so my hope is that between now and Christmas... though Christmas sort
of starts early in L.A, it's amazing how it almost seems to slosh together [with Thanksgiving]... There's not going to be any problems
heading it up, is my sense, and the work that Universal had me do on the various drafts was work that I am pleased to have done. I
mean, sometimes a company, an executive, will push something in a direction that you don't really want it to go and you'll think,
'Shit, this is getting less and less like the picture I want to make,' and luckily that didn't happen. The man we've been dealing with at
Universal, his name is Dylan Clarke, is extremely smart and I think respects me and respects the kind of horror I like and all he was
eager to do was to get more of that into the movie. So I said - you know, I was very happy to have that happen. I want to make this
thing as scary as possible and so all the drafts have done is, I think, upped the scare quotient - it's a very hard R movie, it's not
one of these wishy-washy PG13 things. And so, I think the movie's in very good shape, the script is in very good shape and
speaks well for itself and I think if
people want to make a movie with me right now, that's the movie that's right there on the table. The guys at Universal have
treated me extremely well, this is just corporate - Dylan Clarke is an A-OK guy and so is his boss. There are so many other things
going on in my life that if for some reason or another Tortured Souls did not happen in the next six months, frankly it wouldn't be
the end of the world."
There And Back Again: Touring The Abarat
By Phil and Sarah Stokes,
30 November 2004 (note - full text here)
"Well, what happened was [Universal] let it lapse and then a sub-company of theirs called Rogue, which released over here
Shaun of The Dead and a bunch of other pictures, is looking at it. With my nose being so much to the grindstone, I'm writing the
Hellraiser stuff during the day and at night I am painting Abarats 3 and 4, there isn't another minute during the day to think about
anything else at all. My feeling is that if fate wants me to direct a movie it will pick up the phone to me at some point, but am I
happy right now doing what I am doing? Blissfully! So you know, let it be what it will be."
The Hellbound Art : Memory, Fantasy And Filigree
By Phil and Sarah Stokes,
10 February 2005 (note - full text here)
"Tortured Souls has taken a little bit of a side-step. It's hard to imagine while I'm producing two movies for other directors
and producing Demonik and also executive producing Weaveworld how the heck I would be able to do those things
respectfully and competently and also go away and do what is essentially a 24 hour-a-day job, which is to direct a movie.
It seemed to me that I needed to make a choice and I thought the choices were pretty clear - we've got these movies
going, we need them to be wonderful and Joe and Anthony have been amazing and I want to give them as much support
as possible. I want Scarlet Gospels to be great and I want the paintings to be great, so it's impossible to say, 'OK, now
I'm going to step away from all of this and go do a job which will consume me completely' - but that just doesn't make
any sense. I mean it would be lucrative as hell, but that's not the way I look at things or I've ever looked at things and
right now I am much more interested in making sure that the next Abarat book is the best it can be and the Scarlet
Gospels is the best that it can be."
The Lazarus Muse: Nights Of Magic, Days Of Gore
By Phil and Sarah Stokes,
2 June 2005 (note:
full text here)
"I want to make Tortured Souls with a hard 'R'. I want it to be a vision of Hell or some other ghastly place of judgement that
would be seared into the audience's imagination. I wanted to expand that whole fetishistic, dark, almost priestly world; the
old Barker preoccupation with religion and anti-religion. I wanted some dark religious underpinnings to the movies and I'm
pretty sure at Universal that didn't go down too well."
Barker's Midnight Meat Train On Track
By Dave Alexander,
Rue Morgue, No 47, July 2005
"I don't know whether it'll be on at a major studio. I'm arguing forcibly to go with a couple of smaller companies that want us - doing the picture
smaller, and rawer and better. It's frustrating as heck. It was a really good writing experience, but they just called me up and said, 'We
can't do it. We've got too many zombie/demon movies.' "
Visions In Paint And Celluloid
By Carnell,
Fangoria, No.247, October 2005
"Tortured Souls is on hold right now because there is just too much going on and I know we have another - Universal has
[just granted] us another six months to play with it and hopefully somewhere in that time we will get it out into the world."
You Called, He Came...
By Phil and Sarah Stokes,
2 and 3 June 2006 (note: full text here)
"We’re waiting for a rewrite and we’re not going to get a rewrite really fast so – Todd is doing the rewrite, Todd McFarlane, and he
has some legal problems which I don’t entirely understand… so it hasn’t been easy to get him focussed on the rewrite, which I think
he could do a nice job with. I think I’ve got all the pieces in the right order and I think it’s time for him to take a tackle at it… I think
it’ll be a very cool picture and I think – one of the cool things about horror, fantasy, generally is you can, you don’t have to be too
eager or too impatient – if it’s a good story, if it’s good shit in some way or other then there’s going to be an audience for it. I’m
hoping that we can get past the CGI fever to a point here actually you can have actors in costumes – a few zips up the back
wouldn’t hurt! I see a lot of nodding heads here – are we all CGI’d out? Yeah, yeah, I certainly am and I feel like I would
like to go back and I think we’ll do Tortured Souls with the minimum of CGI and the maximum of actors doing their thing. There’s
something soulless about CGI..."
Clive Barker And Simon Bamford Q&A
Moderated by Paul Kane, Informal Q&A Session, FantasyCon, Nottingham, 23 September 2006
"It’s out there but I think until Todd gets into a place where he really wants to get into movies it’ll sit. But, you know I’m up
to my neck in stuff as it is."
Jericho / Hellraiser: Clive Barker Reveals All!
By Mister Disgusting,
Bloody Disgusting.com, 7 November 2007
Todd McFarlane : "From the first time we met, I knew that we
were both kids in grown men's bodies, and that can be trouble - in a
good sense. The strength of Clive and his studio and the strength of
me and my studio, it's an amalgamation, a hybrid of a bunch of good
creative people working together."
Tortured Souls On Screen
By [ ], McFarlane.com, 1 February 2002 (N.B. full text available
at www.mcfarlane.com)
Brad Gould (McFarlane staff) : "Todd and Clive Barker were both
doing that Hollywood thing earlier in the week, making progress on the
Tortured Souls movie. Clive had written up a basic outline containing
the major elements he's looking for in a story. A few select writers
were then given this outline, and discussed their ideas with Todd,
Clive and the studio heads, describing where they would take the story.
They were free to use as little or as much of Clive's basic skeleton
of a plot as they wanted. They could add or subtract, whatever they
want. Then, at the end of it all, Todd, Clive and the execs discussed
what they had heard, and will decide which writer they think can handle
the story in the best and most creative way.
"It sounds like quite a few really cool sounding ideas were presented.
Although there isn't a written plot or script yet, it appears that the
story will soon have a definite direction and a basic structure. From
what Todd was describing to Drew and me, this is going to be one very
interesting and especially creepy movie."
Daily Update
McFarlane message board announcement, (note - online at www.spawn.com)
By Brad Gould,
13 September 2002
Hans Rodionoff : "Being a fan of horror movies, I tend to think
the less I know about a movie, the better. It tends to take some of the
surprise and scare factor out when you know what's gonna come out of
the dark at you. There's already such a huge pre-awareness of this
project and we've already been given a pretty great window into the
movie, just by having the action figures out there. Since everybody's
already seen or bought the figures, I don't think I'll be spoiling
anything when I say that you're gonna see some of those creatures, and
they're gonna scare the crap out of you. One thing is, I think anyone
who looks at the figures will immediately think of Hellraiser, I
know I did. But after reading Clive's original treatment, I realized
that they were moving it into a completely new direction, and that's
what got me really excited. So, yes, you will see some of the Tortured
Souls big as life and in the rotting flesh. No, this is not going to
be a Hellraiser movie."
An Interview With Hans Rodionoff
By Ryan Rotten, Creature Corner, 4 December 2002 (N.B. full text available
at www.creaturecorner.com)
Jon Goff (McFarlane staff) : "I can tell you, at this very moment Todd and Terry [Fitzgerald] are going over the first draft of
Clive Barker’s script for the Tortured Souls film. I don’t have any details as far as plot and characters go (it is far too early at this
stage to release any detailed information), but as soon as Todd and Terry give their thoughts and suggestions to Clive regarding the
story it will be time to hand the script over to the studio for their comments, which brings us one step closer to getting the greenlight
for pre-production."
Update - Just Hangin' Around
McFarlane message board announcement, (note - online at www.spawn.com)
By Jon Goff,
10 March 2004
Hans Rodionoff : "Late last year, Clive made the decision that he
wanted to direct Tortured Souls. I just about fainted. It's such great
news. I think fans have been waiting for Clive to get back behind the camera
for a long time, and this story is perfect for him. Right now, Clive is
tweaking the script. The last I heard, they were getting ready to turn in
Clive's draft to the studio in the next few weeks. The basic plot of the
movie concerns a man who decides to exchange his wife for a demon. The
exchange sends his wife to a place called Primordium, where she must battle
her way across a hostile landscape to try and get back home.
"There is a core mythology of
Primordium that's built in the novellas. That core mythology is respected
and expanded. There are characters from both figure lines in the script.
Fans of the action figures can expect to see some familiar faces, but there
will also be things that will be new to everyone."
Hans Rodionoff On Man Thing The Movie, The Comic And More
By Dave Richards, Comics2Film, 12 May 2004 (N.B. full text available
at www.comics2film.com)
Nightbreed - The Director's Cut
...Custom built for the full DVD collectors' edition
treatment. Whilst Barker's relationship with Fox remains amicable enough,
it seems that they no longer know the location of the original material, nor are prepared to hunt for it (see quote below). Who can we find to take up the gauntlet and
track down
those 25 minutes (perhaps including a song?) for us all...?
Click here for an exclusive analysis of two of the deleted scenes - with scripts, storyboards and video...!
"I did the picture for Fox about 7 years ago... which was frankly
screwed up by the studio who wanted me to take certain sequences out
and simplify it in a way that frustrated me. I liked it but I always
felt there'd be a better movie in there for a director's cut. I tried
to get Fox to give up the material which is in their vaults and it's
been tough. Right now we're in a bit of a Mexican standoff. They know
I want the material and they're not really that strongly motivated to
go and find it for me. I sort of imagine this vast, dusty vault a bit
like the last shot of Raiders of the Lost Ark and I fear that's where
the missing 20 minutes of Nightbreed are. But, I don't give up easily
so I'd like to pursue it until I get this material back into the movie."
Chats From The Past
Transcript of on-line Hollywood Spotlight appearance, 23 June 1998
"We tested this movie, we tested it twice with that ending and the audience said, sorry, don't like that ending and
Twentieth Century Fox said, OK, get rid of it. That's the way you go... Originally Decker died... and all that material is in the
vaults somewhere, so maybe we'll get it in the uncut version one of these days."
Fangoria Weekend Of Horrors
Transcript of a talk by Clive Barker,
Weekend of Horrors, Los Angeles. May 1991
"Nightbreed, we have two things working here. The first thing is we're
working to do a full new edition on laser... we put Hellraiser on
laser, recently... Wilma Vision are interested in reconstructing the
missing parts of the movie and putting it together in a director's cut.
Which I am very keen to do. Which would add about 25 minutes or there
about the same. And, so, it would be nice to put all that stuff back
in. But, in the meantime, the movie has, and this is wonderful, you
know, a lot of fans. And it's a cult movie and it's a real pleasure to
me. Because, in a way, it's closer to my heart than anything else amongst
the movies. And I know it's a flawed picture and there's lots of things
I would have wanted differently, but it moves people, it gets into
people. People have Nightbreed parties. That's great I love that. And,
so, at some point I would like to do something... "
Interview
By Amber Black and Tim Trautmann,
Review(?), 1996
"The director's cut is 12 minutes longer and contains material the MPAA
had me remove. And, more significantly, it contains material that UA
had me remove. I think they underestimated the horror audience. They
lacked faith in them. There are 25 minutes more of "NightBreed" in
Fox's vault which I have tried to get my hands on. I fought very hard
to reconstruct the film--and I doubt that will happen.
"Everyone I dealt with at Fox is gone, so it's a different company, and
there is no financial, contractual or artistic imperative for Fox to
instruct someone to go into the vault and find this. That's very
irritating."
We Pinned Clive Barker Down and He Made Short Work of Your Questions
By Jim Hosney,
transcript of a lecture from E-Online Filmschool, October 1998
"Lord of Illusions you can't show. You can show it on HBO, Showtime.
It's been on Showtime lots of times now, they've shown the directors cut. On regular tv there's no way you can go anywhere near that stuff,
which is irksome to say the least, because I think of a lot of the
power of the kinds of things that I do like Cronenbergs, it really
doesn't have a life, I don't think, unless you do with it with real
gusto. I think I need to step up to the plate in the cleanest, clearest
way I can and without apology, and with as little interference from
the MPAA as possible. That's why I've always tried to put out
uncensored versions of things. We're still hoping that we eventually
get an edition of Nightbreed on DVD and laser which will replace the
25 minutes that are missing. Its irritating as hell to have these
pompous sons-of-bitches who think they know what will corrupt America
you know (laughs), always the most self righteous 'Oh no-no! you can't
possibly do that!'"
Explorer From The Far Reaches Of Experience
By Kim August,
Pharr Out! 1998
"Our hope is that we will now put this all together and put it out on
DVD remixed. I hope I will be able to persuade Danny Elfman to come
in and give us just a little bit of extra music for it. Danny is an
extraordinary talent. The most uncompromised portion of that entire
movie is the score. Danny's score is, I think, magnificent. So I'm
hoping, in answer to your question, that next year we will see a
version of Nightbreed which, if not perfect, certainly will be coming
out a half hour longer than the version you can currently get. And
damn it, if I can't find it I'm just going to do it with hand puppets!"
LA Times Festival Of Books
Q & A Session With Pete Atkins, 29 April 2000 (Note - full text in
Lost Souls Newsletter, July / August 2000)
"That came and went, it hasn't gone away - it's just I haven't been
focusing on it. The company approached me, I said, 'Yes, I want to do
it,' and I haven't heard exactly when it is going to be done. I know
they are releasing a regular edition and then they were hoping to do
the re-constructed edition for next year."
Confessions
By Craig Fohr and Kelly Shaw,
Lost Souls at www.clivebarker.com, 18 May 2001
"Unless you have an advocate within the particular studio system who can go around and dig around for you, you're really lost. I'm sure I won't be given the keys
to Fox's vaults and be told, 'Go look for your missing twenty-five minutes.'
"It's sort of interesting that movies have their moments where suddenly they come back into focus again, and I hope this can happen for Nightbreed at some
point - where somebody does say that to you. An advocate does appear. It doesn't have to be the head of a studio, just someone who comes in and takes a
position of power at Fox and calls me and says, 'Hey, we'd like to see what we can do about putting this picture back together the way you intended.' That's not
beyond the realms of possibility, but it ain't happened yet...
"The last time I spoke to Fox, this is a true conversation, they said, 'Your reel is in the vaults.' And I said, 'Where are your vaults?' And the girl actually said,
'I don't know.' That's worrying! Right there! They don't know where the fucking vaults are. What chance do they have to find the material?"
Clive And Kicking
By Mike Watt, The Dark Side, Issue 101, February/March 2003
"The problem is, over at Fox right now, I genuinely don't think they know where the material is. I think it's probably sitting in a... this
depresses the hell out of me to say it, but it's probably true. It's probably sitting in a series of unmarked canisters, a lot of unmarked
canisters in a warehouse. I think probably they would help me if they possibly could. I don't think they are being willfully difficult I just
don't think anyone knows where the hell this stuff is. I wonder if somebody's gonna come across it by accident, and that may
happen or else eventually we figure we'll find someone at Fox who, if we dog them enough, they will give us the key to the warehouse.
Maybe that's what it will take, maybe they will say, 'Barker, you've bothered us enough, here's the key. Go find it.' In which case
we'll go find it. I wouldn't have the slightest problem with doing that, if that is what it will take. I can't imagine them doing that anytime
soon. Maybe they will, and then we'll do it. One of these days we'll do it."
Confessions
By Craig Fohr, Lost Souls, 1 August 2003 (note - full text online at Lost Souls - see links page)
"It goes on and on and on, because Fox has 25 minutes that were taken out of the movie, and they’re somewhere in some huge
warehouse that probably looks like the final shot of Raiders of the Lost Ark. They have promised me over and over again that they
will do a special edition and I can put the 25 minutes in and so on, but they’ve never done anything about it. The answer is, I have
two pictures at Fox right now. My hope is, as my relationship warms up with Fox and we start to get closer to making either
Dread or The Thief of Always, I’ll be able to sidle up to one of the presidents or vice presidents and say, ‘You know, I’d really love
just to have the keys to your warehouse!’ And then I’ll go tiptoe in, because I’d really love to restore that material, and there’s
plenty of it. There are a bunch of monsters missing, and there was wonderful work in it. There’s a lot of stuff I would like to put
back, so the answer is, it’s never gone from my head as something to do. It hasn’t really worked to simply send letters to Fox,
or even have my agents ask questions. What I need to do is to actually actively be making a movie with them, and then I’ll be
close enough for them to consider my appeal a little more. I would certainly love to get it going again, and I’d love to find those
missing minutes."
Clive Barker’s Dark Plans
By Joe Nazzaro, www.fangoria.com, 2 December 2004
"Bits of everything [are in the 25 minutes]. Anne Bobby has a song, there's a performance, a two-minute song. There's violence,
ten minutes of violent footage. "
Darkness And Light
By Mark Schaefer, Penny Blood, Issue 2, Spring 2005
"There will one day be a director's cut of Nightbreed, but I'll probably have to storm the fort of Fox to actually... the best
possible chance of it happening is this: (I don't know whether I should be saying this.... Yes, I should!) If and when they
make Thief of Always, I'm sure I will build a relationship with somebody there who says, 'Is there anything I can do for you
while we're making this big movie?' and I'll say, 'Yes! Take me and help me find this stuff.' I think that's the honest answer."
You Called, He Came...
By Phil and Sarah Stokes,
2 and 3 June 2006 (note: full text here)
[On the video footage we discovered] "That was footage that was found in someone’s garage!
That’s how amazing that is. That wasn’t actual film footage just video shot with Craig Spector’s video camera around the set. I
have asked Fox over and over again for the missing 25 minutes and of those missing minutes there just isn’t a sign. And you
know, let’s be clear, all they care about is money so what is the upside to Fox who have this material somewhere in their system?"
Jericho / Hellraiser: Clive Barker Reveals All!
By Mister Disgusting,
Bloody Disgusting.com, 7 November 2007
Doug Bradley: "[Nightbreed] remains like no other movie I've
ever seen. It is extraordinary, and I get asked all the time at
conventions, 'Is there a director's cut of Nightbreed?' All I can say
is I don't know, but I hope there is because I would like to see it.
I saw it recently on television in the USA and it does still stand up,
but only because the visuals are so extraordinary and the subject
matter is so extraordinary, Unfortunately, no sooner has it stood up
than it collapses."
Pin - Points
By Nick Vince,
Hellbreed No.3, July 1995
...Who knows where the rights to these currently rest. Could they
continue without the corresponding books? Could they continue without
Barker? Absolutely no sign of them as yet, although a recent rumour
that Barker wrote a prequel in 1997, shipped the
script around unsuccessfully for some time but that Artisan
Entertainment had recently picked it up and had Barker onboard as exec
producer swept around the world with astonishing speed. Sorry to say
we've now seen these rumours nixed in print by
Nicholas Vince, the Chatterer himself, who had just spoken to Barker...
[Re 3 picture deal between Barker / FilmFutures and Morgan Creek - the
first picture being Nightbreed] "Son of Celluloid is the second picture
we'll make together, and the third will hopefully be Nightbreed 2.
When Morgan Creek bought the film rights to Cabal they insisted on a
more commercial title. They though it didn't mean anything and they
could be right. Who knows?
"Charles Haid, as Eigerman, gets killed at the end of the film
[Nightbreed] but not in the book. This doesn't mean I can't bring him
back, of course, as long as the movie does business! There will
definitely be more Cabal books, though I envisage trouble keeping the
book and film sequels separate. That's a worrying bridge to cross and
there is a danger it will all become too self-referential, which I
must avoid at all costs. I must look at the books as distinct from the
movies. I start writing Cabal II after Nightbreed wraps."
Clive Barker's Nightbreed
By Alan Jones, Cinefantastique, Vol 20 Nos 1 & 2 (double-issue), November 1989
"Midian is destroyed and the second movie does not happen minutes
later. It happens after the passage of some time. Nightbreed leaves a
lot of questions unanswered, a lot of long-term questions. The second
movie is not what will happen tomorrow.
"There are people out there in the world who have been waiting for
Ashberry. Just as there are people out there who have been waiting for
Boone. Secret orders who have been waiting for their own particular
Lucifer. Armies waiting to rise who want a leader, and Ashberry is
going to walk into their lives like I guess Hitler did; to stir up
some deep feeling."
A Hymn To The Monstrous: The Making Of Nightbreed
By Mark Salisbury and John Gilbert,
Clive Barker's Nightbreed - The Making Of The Film, 1990
[Re. likelihood of sequel to 'Nightbreed'] "Yes,
partially because the video company are very interested,
but if it does well on video then there'll clearly be
an audience for it…[as with Hellraiser III], as long as
these movies are made for a modest budget there's no
reason why they shouldn't continue, so yeah, I think
there's a good chance there'll be a sequel. I'd be
involved in it but I've just signed a two-picture deal
with Universal so that'll keep me out of the running for
a while." [a sci-fi film (Eden USA) & The Mummy re-make]
Flesh and Fury
By Mark Salisbury,
Fear, No 22, October 1990
"The head of Morgan Creek is still interested in Nightbreed 2... It's
extremely ironic. But the story of the Nightbreed can run and run.
There's no reason why those creatures couldn't be back in one form or
another."
Barker Bites Back
By Anthony Timpone,
(i) Fangoria Horror Spectacular, No 1, 1990
(ii) Fangoria : Masters of the Dark
"For the first 'Nightbreed' picture, which is the first of the 'Cabal'
pictures, we might do a little bit of shooting in Canada, but
essentially we want to work with the same team that has done such
extraordinary work here [on 'Hellbound']. In the 'Nightbreed' pictures,
I will say I think there'll be more monsters per square inch of
screen than probably ever seen before. I mean this is a major, major
number of monsters. It may even be three movies eventually. As long as
it's planned, I like the idea of a series. The only time it doesn't
work, it seems to me, is when - as in the Nightmare on Elm Street
pictures - there isn't planning. I would certainly like to direct the
first 'Nightbreed' because I think it is a horror movie with a very
new angle. And it has all these creatures in it, and it can be very
imaginative and very fun to do. One of the things that Chris [Figg]
and I are trying to do is reestablish that tradition in this country.
Nobody else is doing it."
Chains of Love
By Mark Salisbury
Fear, No 3, December 1988
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