Other Stuff Still To Come...?

IDW Projects - Dark Delicacies ...Steve Niles - Clive's long-time collaborator from the days of Arcane and Eclipse and, of course, the creator of the awesome 30 Days of Night among other treasures - has announced he's hoping to adapt Haeckel's Tale for a new comics anthology drawn from the two volumes of Dark Delicacies stories edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb. Steve Niles : "I had been invited to write stories for the first two Dark Delicacies anthologies. And at the same time I’m looking at what people are doing in horror comics, and every time anyone does an anthology there, it’s a nod to EC. So I talked to Del Howison, and I’m saying, 'Look, you’re editing this book where you’ve got Stephen King, Clive Barker, Peter Straub, David Schow, you’ve got all the hard core horror writers. Why don’t you do a version of what you’re doing in the books in comics? I’ll help you out. I know what I’m doing with artists and getting it to IDW.' "So I guess I’m really 'producing' the comics. Really what I’m trying to do here is help Del, and just get a solid horror anthology out there that’s on the level of the books.... "I’ll be adapting, hopefully, Clive Barker’s and at least one per issue." Steve Niles' Supernatural Summer By Kiel Phegley, Comic Book Resources, 29 July 2008 (full text at www.comicbookresources.com) IDW Projects - Torakator ...Eclipse had plans to produce The Great And Secret Show as a graphic novel around the time that Everville was published (see Other Stuff That Got Away...) but IDW eventually picked this up together with new, and perhaps original comic titles from Barker, in the wake of their successful Thief of Always partnership. IDW's Chris Ryall has announced that he also has firm plans to adapt Everville and The Damnation Game as well as, 'many of [Clive's] upcoming projects, from movies [Clive]'s developing and financing himself to The Scarlet Gospels, his final Pinhead tale, to some of his back catalog as well.' The IDW site has a wealth of content that's well worth checking out. See our pages on IDW's Thief of Always and Great and Secret Show adaptations here... December 2007 sees Chris Ryall announce (see below) the next project to hit the blocks - Torakator. Co-written by Clive and Chris, this is an original title which the pair have been considering since the success of The Great And Secret Show graphic novel series. "I'm hoping we all get to work on The Great and Secret Show and Everville. I'd love Sacrament as a comic project. I mean, you know how much I love comics. They've always been a part of my life. I'm sitting here in my library surrounded by books and comics! And painting and image-making has always been a part of my life, so it's definitely something I want to be doing with you guys again, as soon as possible.” An Interview With Clive Barker By [ ], The Thief Of Always graphic novel, Book 3, May 2005 "I am delighted to be working with IDW, adapting some of my works could be a massive undertaking which I know IDW will meet head on. One I am most looking forward to is a planned adaptation of The Great and Secret Show, a very visual novel of violence, sex and intimations of Apocalypse. I can’t wait to see the result, and no one is better suited to deliver then IDW.” Press Release By [ ], IDW Publishing, 5 July 2005 "I had always wanted to do the Great and Secret Show mythology—the 'Quiddity' mythology, if you will—with Eclipse Comics way back when. They had done some beautiful adaptations of the Books of Blood, and they actually started on an adaptation of The Great and Secret Show years ago when they went under... But the story is a very visual story, and lends itself not only to obviously being depicted visually, but, and this is aimed in your particular direction, to expand the mythology beyond The Great and Secret Show and Everville, and the third book to come, into other areas. I think the idea of the Dream-Sea is something that could be explored further. I have always wanted to explore this world in comics, and see an artist as we have use beautifully presenting the imagery to show this world and perhaps use it as a jumping-off place for further exploration. "I’m not one of those people—you know I’m not one of those people who sort of has an, 'oh, comics are beneath me' attitude—you know, tomorrow’s Wednesday, and that’s new comics day. I take real pleasure in the medium. I’m a 53-year-old guy, but last night, I had a choice between taking a big, solid handful of backissues to read or a novel, and I said 'fuck it, I’m gonna read comics.' Now, I wonder how many 53-year-olds still grab a handful of comics to read at night. I bet you it’s more than we think." Talking Comics With Clive Barker By Chris Ryall, Newsarama, 3 February 2006 (note: full text online at www.newsarama.com) "I’m doing another collective project with IDW because I really liked what they did with The Great And Secret Show. I think they did a great job on a very difficult project... "Yeah - [it's an original project] I can’t talk about it right now - well, just because the contract isn’t signed, and I’m always a little superstitious... Chris and I are going to do something - I gave him an idea which addresses the life of the story. People never talk about the politics of it as opposed to the, well... let’s just leave it that way. But I feel, strongly feel, the urge to address the political issue of why are we telling this story..." Hellfire And The Demonation By Phil and Sarah Stokes, 7 September 2007 (note - full text here) "I have gone to [IDW] with a proposal for a 12-issue, completely original story which I have now titled and I just wanted you to have the title and the announcement rights of the project. It’s called Torakator. What and where and how Torakator is, is secret right now... "This is interesting actually... I, in a way, pitched this to Chris [Ryall]: he wanted to adapt something else and he came up to the house, he lives in San Diego and he came up to the house to talk about what we would next do. I said, well, before we get into sort of other novels, can I pitch something? So I laid it out for him, a half-hour pitch maybe and his first question when we were done was, ‘Why?’ and I said, what do you mean, ‘Why?’ He asked why I would give him a new story that could be a book or a movie. And I said the future of comic books depends on having unique work, I said I love this idea and I very much want it to become a work of art and I have great faith in both Chris and Gabriel. The trouble, the detail that Gabriel put into the creation of Quiddity and all the various pieces of The Great and Secret Show are extraordinary and I thought, you know, you guys deserve an idea I’m really passionate about, I said, and we're going to start off with something you’ll love and not just be warming up something. And so that was my answer to 'Why?'" Pivotal Voices: Was, Is And Will Be By Phil and Sarah Stokes, 11 April 2008 (note - full text here) Chris Ryall (IDW) : "The chance to work with a true talent like Clive and bring new life to his existing works, as well as to offer comic extensions of his upcoming movies and some new, original projects besides is definitely a highlight of my tenure at IDW.” Press Release By [ ], IDW Publishing, 5 July 2005 Chris Ryall (IDW) : "The artist I wanted [for Great and Secret Show] is a guy named Gabriel Rodriguez... "I started to lay out the samples for Clive. Gabe's was first, which, I suppose, was me stacking the deck just slightly... I started to reach for the next sample when Clive said, 'This is our guy. I want him, and only him.' I tried to hide my smile. He agreed it'd be fair to look at all the other samples, just to see if he passed someone better. He liked what others had to offer, and thought some might be good for future projects (in the middle of '06 will be Damnation Game, and I've already got a good, established comic writer signed up for that one), but he never faltered in his belief that Gabe was the guy to make this project happen." The (Hopefully) Great And (Not-So) Secret Show, Part I By Chris Ryall, Movie Poop Shoot, 10 October 2005 (note - full text online at www.moviepoopshoot.com) Chris Ryall (IDW) : "Personally, as far as Clive's stuff goes, TGASS is the one I most wanted to work on (along with Everville, and I'd love to do a sort of 'Tales of Quiddity' book, too). But I also think Imajica would be great. That was the first Barker book I ever read. No idea how an adaptation would work, but if I survive TGASS, I think I could handle it... " Great and Secret Show By Chris Ryall, Forum post, www.idwpublishing.com, 1 June 2006 Chris Ryall (IDW) : "Before I left [town] last week, Clive Barker asked me to co-write a brand-new project with him. Which is an amazingly flattering thing to hear, let me tell you. So now we're gonna write the Great American Graphic Novel together, just you wait and see." Detox By Ryall, MySpace.com, 2 September 2007 Chris Ryall: "I'll be hanging with Clive Barker at Mysterious Galaxy this Thursday, for his Mister B. Gone signing. I'll be bringing the first copies of The Complete Great and Secret Show collection, both in TPB form and hardcover, too... Maybe Clive will talk a little more about our upcoming new comic series that we're co-writing (which just feels ridiculous to even type, I have to say)." Call Your Mom And Tell Her You Love Her By Ryall, MySpace.com, 12 November 2007 Chris Ryall: "That's right, Torakator (Tor-ah-kah-tor, not tora-cater). Coming in 2008 from Clive Barker and Chris Ryall. Created by Clive, co-written by both of us. Actual co-writing. An all-new epic series about which I will say no more for a while. Although I'm excited as hell. Torakator... "Torakator. Say it out loud - it's fun to say." Torakator By Ryall, MySpace.com, 5 December 2007 Hellbound Hearts ...Due for publication on 29 September, our good friends Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan have assembled a stellar cast for their anthology of stories set within the Hellraiser mythos. The only reprint here is Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's Wordsworth - and even that one comes with Neil's previously unpublished script for the graphic short story - everything else is newly commissioned. With the likes of Christopher Golden, Mike Mignola, Pete Atkins, Nick Vince, Barbie Wilde, Conrad Williams, Sarah Pinborough, Mick Garris, Tim Lebbon, Kelley Armstrong, Richard Christian Matheson, Nancy Holder, Simon Clark, Steve Niles, Sarah Langan, Yvonne Navarro, Mark Morris, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Nancy Kilpatrick, Gary A. Braunbeck, Lucy A. Snyder and Chaz Brenchley contributing fiction and other contributions from Clive, Doug Bradley and Stephen Jones, we're breathless with anticipation for this one! The cover is Clive's new cenobite, Vestimenti... Following many queries about the genesis of this project, Paul and Marie have very generously agreed to write their story of how Hellbound Hearts came to be, and to share it here with us - thanks guys! We were both delighted when Phil and Sarah asked us to provide an introduction for readers of Hellbound Hearts, exclusively for Clive’s excellent Revelations site. The main reason we decided not to do this in the book itself was that it already contained an insightful foreword by Clive; a thorough and informative introduction from award-winning editor and writer Stephen Jones, who acted as unit publicist on the first three Hellraiser movies; and an afterword by Doug Bradley, to close the anthology… Other than that, we wanted the fiction to speak for itself. But after being asked so many times how the book came about, what our motivations were, and to talk about the stories, which we can now do because the book is out (so go and buy it everyone!), it’s nice to be able to reply to everything all in one place. Firstly, we’ve both been fans of Clive’s work – in all its forms – since the first Books of Blood were released. His originality and talent kept us coming back for more, and separately we both collected as much of his material as we could (now that we’re married, that collection is massive). We can both remember reading The Hellbound Heart when it first came out, and obviously seeing Hellraiser – the movie based on the novella, scripted and directed by Clive. It had a similar impact on us both: namely, we couldn’t shake the ideas behind it from our minds. Judging from a lot of the authors we asked to be involved in Hellbound Hearts, this was the case for them as well. Our aforementioned collection includes the Hellraiser comics from the late 80s, early 90s, which took the original mythology and let writers and artists come up with their own takes on it (some of them associated with the films anyway, such as Peter Atkins and Nicholas Vince). We’d always wondered why nobody had done the same thing in the fiction world. So, once we had enough editing experience under our belts – the majority of which was through the British Fantasy Society, but also Paul editing and co-editing the Shadow Writer and Terror Tales anthologies respectively – we felt confident enough to mention this idea to Clive on the phone one day, as he owns the rights to the literary version of this world. Luckily, he felt just as passionate about the idea as we did, and gave us his blessing to go off and gather together the authors. He even kindly said he would not only provide the foreword, but the cover artwork as well (over time this became a brand new Cenobite in the form of ‘Vestimenti’). It was also in this original chat with Clive that the germ of the idea to include illustrations inside the book was planted: the result of which was being able to incorporate Mike Mignola’s illustrations for his and Christopher Golden’s story ‘Mechanisms’ (something that had worked very successfully with their book Baltimore), and the graphic insert of the story ‘Wordsworth’ by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (aware that this was a reprint and we wanted new material, we also cheekily asked Neil if he still had the script to hand… which, God bless him, he did). From those original discussions came months of hard work contacting authors we admired and thought would bring something original to the table… Mick Garris (because of his obvious associations with Clive, most recently with the Masters of Horror episodes ‘Haeckel’s Tale’ and ‘Valerie on the Stairs’), Steve Niles (again, because of his long-standing connections with Clive’s universe, dating back to those early BoB comic adaptations he penned), Richard Christian Matheson, Simon Clark, Kelley Armstrong, Sarah Langan, because they were admirers of the mythology as well as being cracking writers, plus of course Pete Atkins and Nick Vince again – and also Barbie Wilde, who we met at the launch of The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy and who’d told us she was now writing fiction (her first novel is called The Venus Complex and quite stunning it is too). Bit of unknown trivia here: Barbie’s story ‘Sister Cilice’ was actually the first to be written and handed in, almost a year before we had the rest in our hands, and when we read it we just knew this anthology was going to be something quite special. As we looked around for publishers – with Pocket, thankfully, seeing the potential of the first new stories in this mythology in almost twenty years – more and more authors joined the list, an impressive array of US and UK talent such as Jeff Mariotte, Nancy Kilpatrick, Gary A. Braunbeck & Lucy A. Snyder, Chaz Brenchley, Mark Morris, Tim Lebbon, Sarah Pinborough, Yvonne Navarro, Nancy Holder and Conrad Williams, each eager to write their own story based on the mythology. What we ended up with, once everything was in, was a rich and multi-faceted set of short stories that drew on such diverse elements as Native American mythology, science, the art world, Mexican religious icons, fairy tales, mazes, cinema history, detective stories, and tales from the ocean, to name but a few examples. People have also asked us what our favourite story in the anthology is, and it’s an impossible thing for us comment on; it’s like asking us to choose between our children. We’re extremely proud of this book which took us over two years to put together from start to finish. From what the authors have told us, they feel the same, and we sincerely hope readers and fans of both Clive’s oeuvre and the Hellraiser canon enjoy reading the finished product which goes on sale today. An Introduction To Hellbound Hearts By Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan, Revelations, 29 September 2009 Paul Kane : "Hellbound Hearts was originally an idea I ran past Clive a couple of years ago. I loved the Hellraiser comics that were around in the late ’80s/early ’90s, but if you wanted to read original stories in that mythology, now all you had were the reprints. Apart from Clive’s Hellbound Heart novella and [his upcoming novel] The Scarlet Gospels, nobody had really done anything in the literary world connected with it. Clive loved the idea, and as he owns the literary copyright to the novella and its mythology, he very kindly gave me his blessing to round up authors and look for a publisher. Marie came on board as co-editor as it was too massive a job to handle alone... "As Hellraiser fans ourselves, we think the loyal followers are going to love it. There’s something for all devotees of Clive’s work in here, ranging from the subtle to the more extreme. It’s a book that, as fans, we would buy ourselves. It didn’t exist, so we created it.” Editor Talks New Barker Hellbound Anthology By Samuel Zimmerman, Fangoria.com, 5 August 2009 Paul Kane : "The original idea came from a love of the EPIC comics, which I wrote about in Legacy. I collected all of those, and then again when the reprints came out. The mythology had been covered in films and in the comics, just not in literature apart from Clive's original novella - and Scarlet Gospels which he's working on now. It just seemed like a natural thing to want to do. I knew Clive owned the literary rights to the mythology, so I ran the idea past him on the phone and was delighted when he loved the sound of it too. Clive's been absolutely fantastic, not just with this, but all along the line; he's such a great guy. From that initial conversation, there was a lot of pounding pavements to secure a publisher and to see who we could get to do stories. Marie joined me as co-editor because there was so much to do and we'd worked together on other projects - most recently the British Fantasy Society Celebration book, which also featured Clive - plus she's a damned fine editor in her own right. The book wouldn't exist without both Clive and Marie... "We had to steer clear of anything from the Hellraiser filmic world, but actually that made the book extra special. It gave the authors involved freedom to invent their own Cenobites, to weave their own stories based in the mythology - exactly like the comics did all those years ago. Luckily the mythology Clive created in The Hellbound Heart is pretty much the same as it is in the films, in fact it goes into more detail in some respects, so the stories are all recognisably set within that world.” Hellbound Hearts Interview With Paul Kane By Scarecrow, The Hellbound Web at www.cenobite.com, August 2009 Halloween - The Dark Bazaar ...As Halloween 2010 edges ever closer, Clive attended the Houston Halloween & Party Expo in January 2010 at Disguise's showcase of the line for retailers and trade buyers. Everything's looking wonderful! Sign up for details of The Dark Bazaar at Disguise's dedicated site here. "I'm starting to get full-size sculpts for Halloween masks and costumes developed to give a wild, edgy look to my favorite holiday! In 2010 we'll start with The Dark Bazaar. Then we'll add characters to the mythology year after year. Working with an awesome company called Disguise. My designs for a whole new Halloween, with not a pumpkin in sight. I originate the characters as oil paintings. It's a blast! Great, creative people who want give the holiday some bite, some fresh blood, some new Terrors." Twitter Posts By Clive Barker, 2 July 2009 "These are the first paint jobs... This is going to be a fucking beautiful thing..! That one [mask based on 'Look Away' artwork]... it actually has four faces, you know there’s not only a back and a front, there’s also a left and a right so every way it turns it sort of presents a different face... "I think it’s going to be a gorgeous thing. I mean I want these to be imaginative and as a sculpt, it’s beautiful. And so a lot of the additional drawings I did on the spot and that’s the nice thing about them [Disguise] being in San Diego, I can drive down and this has been a really, really cool experience. We have now about twenty things coming for the first year." Only Connect By Phil and Sarah Stokes, 19 August 2009 (note - full text here) "So you know we’ve got the Halloween stuff coming from Disguise and it is superb, I mean it is beautiful. There will be 19 things in the first year, we’re now designing the second year and the take-up from stores all across America has been universal." Now And In Time To Be By Phil and Sarah Stokes, 1 and 4 January 2010 (note - full text here) "Since Midnight I've been staring in delight at the Publicity materials for the Dark Bazaar Halloween designs. Perfect! It's somebody else's vision at work here, so I'm not kissing myself on all four cheeks. The sense of morbid carnival is there! Aesthetically pleasing work is definitely arousing. Or is that just me? The first nineteen masks, costumes, magical staffs and the like are out this year, all with story shards attached." Twitter Posts By Clive Barker, 9 January 2010 Stephen Stanley (Disguise) : "The idea is to create a whole, new Halloween with a dark, fantastical, rather than horror, element." New At Disguise For Halloween 2010 By Amanda Torres, Body Magazine, January 2010 (note - full text online at www.bodymagazine.us) Codemasters - Jericho Sequels ...Following the success of Jericho, Clive's association with Codemasters grows stronger as does the prospect of further collaborative projects. There is certainly potential for further storylines involving the Jericho team which could perhaps introduce the multi-player features which could not be supported by the first Jericho game. Clive has recently been dropping hints about possible future plotlines, including 666 children in the hold of a large vessel at sea - and, believe us, you do not want to know what is happening to those children... See our pages on Jericho here... "There’s no doubt that if Jericho is liked by players we will take our psychic squad out on other adventures (assuming, of course, any of them survive.) The human appetite for mystery and terror has never waned even when, as now, the world is filled with very real terrors. Maybe that’s the connection. Maybe we seek out games and stories that allow us a measure of control over the horrors of the invented world: a control which we do not have, regrettably, in the real world." Q&A: Clive Barker's Jericho By [ ], online for Xbox 360 print magazine 'Readers Only' at www.oxm.co.uk, 13 February 2007 "It's the first of what will be a series of stories about a group of militarily trained but magically gifted men and women who deal with powers that are beyond anything that you or I would ever imagine... "I want to do three of these, just three, and make it the Jericho trilogy in which this son - I gave a clue there, I didn't intend to. Okay, the First Born is the son of something. Oh well. It's not a terrible thing; it's kind of funny. But when we have the trilogy together I think we'll have this fucking huge confrontation between what may end up being a suicide club of men and women who are willing to give their souls and their bullets to the business of destroying the son of something. I mean, in a way it's already there in the 'First Born'." Clive Barker Waxes Gory On His Cult Shooter Jericho By The Gamepros, GamePro at www.gamepro.com, 5 September 2007 "I have a lot of things waiting in the wings and I'm going to do a big deal - which I can't talk about right now, but which will have me making games for many years to come. And I have two epics that I have structured and are ready to be shared with my creators once my creators have signed the contract! My creative team, I mean - Codemasters - and I am astonished by how far they have gone on my behalf and on behalf of the game [Jericho] to get it right." Clive Barker Talks About Jericho By Scott Steinberg, Podcast, Digital Trends.com, 26 September 2007 (note - full podcast online at http://news.digitaltrends.com/) "There’s more I want to accomplish for the title. There’s more I want to accomplish with the form. There’s more I want to accomplish with the Jericho squad in the sequel. I want to do multiplayer versions of this game and of other Jericho games. I want to take the squad into even darker places.... "I would like to take the Jericho squad - which will be changing in shape, because none of these characters are immortal; some of them are going to die and be replaced by other characters, some of whom may not be human... just a little hint. I want to take this squad [while] still applying the military aesthetic, for want of a better word, you know, applying what Medal of Honor did so well, which is taking the training and the laws of the military and bringing the soldiers that we have created in our little box into contact with supernatural powers and I just want the powers to be as interesting and complex as possible... "Literally and metaphorically, yes, [I've sketched further episodes]. I mean sketched in the sense that I draw a lot of this stuff out, often just for my eye, as a little memory aid, sometimes to give to the artists - to give them a first version - a bad version perhaps - but something that they can start with. "Everything begins with a blank page, a blank screen, a blank canvas. And so we begin." Clive Barker By Curt Feldman, (i) GameTap.com, 21 September 2007 (note - full video footage online at www.gametap.com) (ii) reported as 'The Devil's Business', GameTap.com 26 September 2007 (note - full text online at www.gametap.com) [If the evil is conquered, what of a sequel?] "You kind of silenced me on that. Because in one sense I want this to be definitive, but if this does break out, what is the next game? Though the characters do make references to other missions they've been on." Clive Barker on Jericho By Greg Edwards, GameSpy.com, 1 October 2007 (note - full text online at http://uk.gamespy.com/) "I’ve already told Codemasters where the next game will head. It starts on an aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean, with 666 children in the hold..." Vintage Violence By Tim Wapshott, The Times, 27 October 2007 Raul Rubio (Designer, Mercury Steam) : [re. Jericho sequels] "Time will tell…" Clive Barker's Jericho By Dan Webb, Xbox360 Acheivements, 27 September 2007 (note - full podcast online at http://www.xbox360achievements.org/) From Oz to 42nd Street ...This Barker film biography, subtitled 'Travels With Clive Barker', was being put together by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe. Best known for the wonderful documentary 'The Hamster Factor' about Terry Gilliam and, more recently, a second Gilliam project - 'Lost In La Mancha: The Unmaking of Don Quixote' - the pair had unparallelled access to the creative workings inside the Barker household. It may be some time before this sees the light of day but, as and when the financing brings the footage back off the shelves, it should prove to be well worth the wait... "Asked to define my own place in this parade of dark fictions I would want to be filed where some dyslexic clerk might slip me, somewhere between Baum and Burroughs (William S., not Edgar Rice); by which I mean that the kind of fiction I write is often a fiction of invented worlds (even when it is set on Earth; or perhaps especially then); the traveller's tale as written by a man just back from Hell by way of Oz and 42nd Street." Speaking From The Dark/Keeping Company With The Cannibal Witches Essay by Clive Barker, (i) Daily Telegraph, 6 January 1990 (ii) Deadline, No 23, October 1990 (iii) Pandemonium, 1991 (iv) Fantasy Tales No 6, Spring 1991 "Two gentlemen came to me - they'd made a very good film about Terry Gilliam, the filmmaker. They wanted to make a film following my life for a year, like flies on the wall watching me do my movie stuff, paint, do a book tour. They want to watch me write - such a dull business. They'll be there as I play with my dogs, recording the interplay of my life both domestic and public. "It'll be a feature film portrait of a gay man working in mainstream culture, producing work that reaches different kinds of audiences. It's going to be interesting." Who Needs a Niche? By Laura Dempsey, Dayton Daily News, [July] 1998 "It's a film made by two people, Lou [Louis Pepe] and Keith [Fulton], who are now making - and have been making it for the past year - a film about my work. And I've let them in on a lot of things which I've never let anyone in on before, like... for many, many hours while I've been painting, and that's quite interesting. I've made some paintings in front of them and then there's the writing and a few... and I think they'll work on it for another year and I think at the end of it they'll have, by the time they've finished it, a sense of how the pieces all fit together." Leitmotifs And Dark Beliefs By Phil and Sarah Stokes, London, 24 September 1999 (note: full text here) "They've got a huge amount of footage. They've actually got a huge amount of footage, which is now sort of historically very important footage. They've got me painting a lot of Abarat pictures and I'm a different human being, I'm not the human being I was 5 years ago - who is? So what they have to do is find someone who is going to spend the money to put this into an organised state, it's not a cheap amount of money. But they're looking around right now to find somebody who will eventually help them organise this, and shape this up. If Abarat is a successful book then I think it will happen." Open Roads... What Price Wonderland? By Phil and Sarah Stokes, 3 April 2002 (note: full text here) Jeff Fox : Writer / Producer "The Barker film will be at least another year in filming and probably six more months in cutting." Clive Barker: Forward the Imagination By Frank Barron, Horroronline, 1999 Keith Fulton : "How do you know about that? No one ever brings that up." Louis Pepe : "Its official status is Unfinished. We shot it. We just could never get the financing to finish it." The Mirror, Cracked By Dickon Edwards, Plan B, Issue 15, October 2006 The Barker / Korn Projects / Oblivion ...The pairing's earliest planned collaboration was for an interactive DVD to collect the mutually inspired works of Barker and Jonathan Davis of Korn. A dozen of Clive's paintings were planned to illustrate music by Davis and Richard Gibbs (formerly of Oingo Boingo) and vice versa. 'Making of' footage was promised to be included on the release, together with commentaries by Barker, Davis and Gibbs. Sony's hopes to infiltrate Clive's ever hectic schedule and get a release date before the end of 2001 came to nothing as the project was put back to allow for work on the upcoming Korn album and marketing discussions over the mixture of demographics to which the DVD might appeal continued... In June 2007, however, Davis began talking of a new collaborative project - an opera about the end of the world to be written with both Clive and Richard Gibbs. AOL's Pop Eater reports that the opera will be entitled Oblivion and runs alongside a project collecting Davis' 12 favourite horror stories into an illustrated coffee book. April 2008 sees Davis confirm (below) that the project is still live... "We're doing a multimedia project with Korn right now. They're taking a bunch of my paintings and writing music to go with them. If it works, I might very well go to Sleazy and to Jeff [of the band Coil] and talk to them and see where we are on all of that. I certainly like the idea of putting together images and music in a much less rational, story-oriented way than the regular video does, which is sort of boring as far as I'm concerned. So, yeah, in principal, I'd love to do that." Raising Hell With Clive Barker By Raymond M. Padilla, Happy Puppy.com, December 2000 "The points of reference are the paintings of William Blake and Francisco Goya and Hieronymus Bosch. "This will be the ultimate trip:music and painting. Salvador Dali was once asked what drugs he took to paint, and he responded, 'I am a drug. Take me.' That's what we're saying." [ ] By [], Entertainment Weekly, June 2001 "It's neither a painting nor a piece of music, it's an imaginative entity... [making] every hair on my body stand on end, including the curly and crinkly ones. It's not my painting and not [Davis's] music, but something else... imaginative and wild portraits of strange and otherworldly creatures... We're bringing art in the broadest sense into people's homes via DVD." Clive Barker DVD Weds Painting To Davis Music By Scott Hettrick, Variety, 1 June 2001 "I'm a fan of Korn's, and Korn are fans of mine. Jonathan tested the waters by taking one of my paintings and adding a soundtrack to it. When I first went to Jonathan's studio and heard what he'd done, every hair on my body stood on end! What he and Richard have done is amazing - created a musical journey, if you will, which takes you into the painting. You literally see new colours when you listen to this music! "I got very excited, and painted some new pictures especially for them to compose to. Hopefully what we're creating is a new artform and something completely fresh. The DVD format is only just beginning - it's so responsive now that you can really feel like the paintings will come alive on your screen. You can have an ever changing gallery in the corner of your room... "It's a new, epic sound for Jonathan. You'll recognise it as Jonathan Davis, but remember there's three artists working here. The whole thing will create a sense of a huge imaginative space in which the audience can play." Korn To Raise Hell! By [ ], Kerrang, No 857, 16 June 2001 "He has all my images. I think we're looking at Jonathan having the music finished by the end of the year." Clive Barker By Tasha Robinson, The Onion, 14 November 2001 (Note: online at www.theonionavclub.com) "I'm doing a DVD with Korn. They're writing the music, I'm painting the pictures. It's a two-way creative process because Korn is writing songs to go with my paintings and I'm painting to go with their music. It will be a strange, hopefully unique artistic experience." Saint Clive By Chris Wyatt and Anthony C. Ferrante, Cinescape, Issue 66 and 67, November / December 2002 "This is a ground-breaking project unifying state of the art music with paintings pulled from the depths of my unconscious." Korn Frontman Jonathan Davis And Clive Barker Team With Composer Richard Gibbs For Fine Art DVD By Metalboy, Unearthed.com, 6 November 2001 (note - full text online at www.unearthed.com) "I was practically wetting myself. What got me was the depth of conviction between the music and the image [Blue Vision]. I don't like to use the word 'soundtrack' because I think that's a reduction in terms, but on one level, that's what they're doing. I think they're also providing a kind of explanation for the nature of the paintings." "Here's two extremely smart, creative folks who want to do something which is completely off the wall, something which doesn't have a precedent. I would be an idiot not to want to do that. When they came to visit, I was like, 'Let's do it!' There's nothing about this that doesn't suit my sensibility, which is doing it without censorship from anybody. We're making something original and sharp." Unlikely Couple Weaving Musical Magic Into Barker's Art By Christa Titus, Billboard, 21 July 2001 "Now we are just waiting on Korn. I turned in my pictures. They've begun their composing. All the deals have long been done, so now it's just a question of two things that need to be done. They need to finish their composing in line with my pictures and they have to give me one piece of music to which I will then paint a picture. So it's a sort of reciprocal creation. They will write most of the music in line with the pictures I have already painted. Then there will be one piece of music that they will give to me, which I will use for starting off place for a painting." Confessions By Craig Fohr, Lost Souls, 1 August 2003 (note - full text online at Lost Souls - see links page) "Jonathan has taken 12 paintings, not Abarat paintings, which he is using as starting places for music. I am taking a piece of music which he has yet to write, which I am going to paint a painting for and we’re going to put all of this on a DVD. So we’re sort of waiting for Jonathan really. I don’t know how soon – I wouldn’t hold your breath too much – but it’ll happen one of these times. He has the paintings, I should call him!" Barnes and Noble Stage Presentation By Brein Lopez, LA Festival of Books, 2004 Richard Gibbs : "I said [to Clive], 'It's kind of popped into my head, but it would be fun for Jon and I to write music for one of your paintings - to score a painting,' I've never done that. I've done moving pictures - why couldn't I do a still one?" Unlikely Couple Weaving Musical Magic Into Barker's Art By Christa Titus, Billboard, 21 July 2001 Jonathan Davis : "We're both dark, twisted, sick fucks, so we really hit it off." [ ] By [], Entertainment Weekly, June 2001 Jonathan Davis : "I really don't care who it appeals to, it's a great idea. It's beautiful art. I don't know if my fans will be into it or the art community will get into it, but I really don't care, because we're doing something we love. I'm not trying to sell a product or anything, so for me, it's just the satisfaction of working with that guy and doing music. If it's good, people will buy it." Unlikely Couple Weaving Musical Magic Into Barker's Art By Christa Titus, Billboard, 21 July 2001 Richard Gibbs : "Jon is definitely the most musically twisted brain I have ever worked with. And now for us to collaborate with a multi-demented soul like the one and only Clive Barker... I don't know what's going to happen, but I hope the authorities have been alerted." Press Release By [], MSO Press Release, 1 June 2001 Jonathan Davis : "We've set out to create a new medium unlike any other, combining the elements of art, beauty, music and horror with state-of-the-art technology - a post-millennium coffee table book for your DVD player." Press Release By [], MSO Press Release, 1 June 2001 Jonathan Davis : "I'm starting to write an opera with Richard Gibbs and Clive Barker and have Stan Winston design everything... it's gonna be way different [from Korn's music], it's an opera... like dark opera. It's called Oblivion and it's about the end of the world... We're just starting, don't know when it will be done." Jonathan Davis of Korn Interview By 'PeteInMusic', AOL Music, June 2007 (note - full text online at http://music.aol.com) Jonathan Davis : "My partner Richard Gibbs and I have been working on it. It’s called Oblivion. It’s about the end of the world. We got Clive Barker to write the story. Stan Winston is on board to do costumes. We’re just looking for backing now. It’s gonna be sick, dude." Do You Support Family Values? By Tom Iacuzio, Daytona Beach News Journal, 10 August 2007 Jonathan Davis :"[Clive and I are] in the middle of writing... [then Richard and I] will start writing the actual opera... The stuff we've come up with has been pretty insane, really good. I'm excited. I think in a couple more months we'll have the whole thing written out. That's when we'll start writing the music." CD/DVD To Accompany Korn's Davis' Solo Tour By Gary Graff, Billboard.com, 1 November 2007 Jonathan Davis :"I'm going to work on a musical that I'm going to write with Clive Barker... Clive's in the middle of writing it and it should be good - I've got the basic gist of what it's about, I mean I know what it's about but the actual storyline, then we're going to start writing the lyrics and tie everything together into a crazy, dark musical... Basically I want to do it on Broadway, so it's just going to be a musical, a Broadway musical... "I think it'll be amazing - if we can make it into a movie after it would be really cool, but it's basically about the end of the world and religion and The Book Of Revelation and all that fun stuff so, it'll be crazy and twisted - like Clive Barker does." Full Interview With Korn Frontman Jonathan Davis By David Farrier, 3 News, 30 April 2008 (note - full video online at http://www.tv3.co.nz/) The NECA Toys Hellraiser Series ...Having now created three series of 7" Cenobite/Hellraiser character models, together with a growing number of deluxe and variant models (see NECA Models ), the anticipation has been growing for that possible Fourth Series. However, These plans were delayed, temporarily, to make way for a unique collaboration between NECA and Clive Barker - the Hellraiser Cenobite Lair. Despite reports to the contrary from the New York Fall 2005 Toy Fair, NECA have stated (see below) that they have neither announced nor confirmed a fourth Hellraiser series. What is clear, however, is that a Boxed Set Engineer is currently slated for release in 2006. Figures.com report from the recent 2006 Toy Fair that the set will potentially include a Kirsty figure and may incorporate her hospital room and hallway to connect to their Cenobite Lair... What is perhaps more exciting is the news that NECA are also celebrating Clive's publication of the ultimate Pinhead story in 2007 by turning their attention to the cenobites of The Scarlet Gospels, with Barker writing back-stories for each figure, as he did for McFarlane's Tortured Souls and Infernal Parade series... The success of the Chatterer III bust has also led to the development of a lifesize Pinhead bust - originally planned for a possible 2005 release. Latest news is of a Pinhead figure as part of NECA's limited edition Cult Classics Hall of Fame - in development now for release in 2007 (see below...) Not content simply with models, NECA's licence includes every kind of merchandise imaginable - from lunchboxes to prop replicas - together with their 'Head Lites' and 'Head Knocker' series. Look out for lines of Hellraiser clothing... NECA have a dedicated Hellraiser site featuring upcoming products and pre-production images at www.hellraiserthemovie.com but head over to www.necaonline.com for an early look at forthcoming products... "The Scarlet Gospels stuff won't come until I deliver Scarlet Gospels, but they wanted to do one last definitive Hellraiser 'Clive Barker-verified' scene so that you'd have all four of the Cenobites in the scene at the top of the Cottons' house and they've done a really nice job with it so I agreed to be part of that. It irritated me a little that all that stuff was getting done - and getting done very nicely, I thought the NECA stuff was very lovely - and that I couldn't be a part of it. And I guess it was just miscommunication because as soon as I spoke to Randy over at NECA I immediately liked him and we got on famously! I have a few of them to sign for the limited editions and so forth, but yes, that's definitely happening." The Lazarus Muse: Nights Of Magic, Days Of Gore By Phil and Sarah Stokes, 2 June 2005 (note: full text here) Randy Falk : "We have a new exclusive figure planned for later this year - hopefully around Halloween. Like Chatterer II this figure will be offered at the various conventions we attend and through the Hellraiser Collector's Club. We will also make every effort to make them available to collectors outside the US through other means." Answers By Randy Falk, posted at Movie Maniacs Asylum, 23 March 2004 (note - full text online at www.mm-asylum.net) Randy Falk : "We announced this line at Toy Fair and now we are ready to reveal more. NECA's Horror Mini Busts will start shipping around June of this year. Expect to see all of your horror genre favorites with a new Mini Bust introduced every 4-6 weeks. Each Mini Bust is made of resin and features insane amounts of detail along with bases that are specific to each character. "Yes - Pinhead will have real metal pins in his head - over 100 of them! And real metal chains with his base!!" NECA Horror Mini Busts By Randy Falk, posted at Movie Maniacs Asylum, 7 April 2004 (note - full text online at www.mm-asylum.net) Randy Falk : "Pinhead Mini Bust: Expect to find this limited edition resin mini bust in stores later this November. A brand new sculpt featuring the combined talents of Ray Santoleri and Kyle Windrix bring the Prince of Pain to life." [Hellraiser] Pre-Halloween Treats! By Randy Falk, e-mail newsletter, 29 October 2004 Randy Falk : "We have been working on the functioning lament for over a year - very tricky to pull off. They use five different versions in filming since it is so problematic... We are still working on it and we have more Hellraiser goodness coming so it will happen but not until it is perfect." Chat Transcript: Randy Falk of NECA By Johnny Butane, Dread Central, 4 November 2004 (note - full text online at www.horrorchannel.com) Russ (Movie Maniacs) : "As for Series 4, you may be waiting a while. While Randy definitely does not discount the possibility of Series 4, they are working pretty Hardcore on Cult Classics right now as you've seen from everything at Toy Fair, and as was alleged in the article, they have some things under development from Barker's new Hellraiser Novel." Where Is Hellraiser, Series 4?/ Hellraiser Playset From NECA! By Russ, posted at Movie Maniacs Asylum, 25 April 2005 (note - full text online at www.moviemaniacs.net) Randy Falk : [Re. Report of Engineer in Hellraiser Series Four] "We have not announced or confirmed a Series 4 at this time. We have confirmed we are working on an Engineer Boxed Set for release sometime in 2006. The Engineer would be a separate stand alone item – not part of a series." Hellraiser Series Four By Randy Falk, by e-mail to Revelations, 14 November 2005 Randy Falk : "I wanted to give you the news first that later this Fall NECA will release a limited edition Cult Classics Series entitled Hall of Fame. This collection will be produced in limited quantities and is comprised of characters that were previously only available in deluxe boxed sets or in some cases we have sculpted new pieces to make some of the figures different from versions previously released... "The new version of Pinhead features the original Pinhead figure body from Series I with new chest deco and the weapons from Hellbound Pinhead. Pinhead comes with an interchangeable head that features his Elliot Spencer likeness from the end of Hellraiser II and a brand new custom display base that can be connected to the Clive Barker's Hellraiser Cenobite Lair Playset. This is the first time Pinhead has been part of the Cult Classics line." Cult Classics Hall Of Fame By Randy Falk, NECA MySpace.com, 22 June 2006 (note - full text online at www.myspace.com/necafans) Hellraiser Play ...News of early versions of this were greeted somewhat sceptically at first but Barker seems to have warmed to the idea. Oliver Parker has proved his credentials to be first rate and his adaptation of Othello was unafraid of freshening the Bard's prose to get the message across on screen. Now comes the challenge of moving in the opposite direction - from screenplay to script. Familiar, of course, with Doug Bradley from the final couple of years of the Dog Company and the season they did together after the Dog Company disbanded, this has everything possible going for it at this stage... "This is timely... A fax about Hellraiser: The Stage Play to be performed in a West End theatre. How soon the Saturday morning cartoon?" Clive Barker - Lord Of Illusions By Nigel Floyd, SFX, No 16, September 1996 "Oliver [Parker] was from the beginning an incredibly driven guy. He was relatively young when I met him - I was in my late twenties at the time - but he didn't strike us as being immature at all. Here came this very energetic, incredibly handsome young man, with this amazing willpower and drive. I saw in him some sharp, great ambition, and maybe he saw in me someone with an imagination he could relate to. We were mutually empowering. I think we were all in love with him a little bit for a while. "I've no doubts it can work with Olly as benign dictator this time! He's a first- rate director because he has a great gift for moving people. That desire, to make them laugh or cry, might sound obvious but it's actually bloody difficult. You have to really want to do it." Film Studies: Actors Are On His Side By Hero Brown, Independent on Sunday, 28 March 1999 "As you may know, my professional relationship began with Doug as an actor on stage in plays that I had written and was directing. He's an extraordinarily charismatic stage actor, and the chance to see him live as Pinhead (laughs) is irresistible. I believe the production, which is rumored to open in London next year, is to be directed by Oliver Parker. Oliver is not only a fine actor himself (he plays Peloquin in Nightbreed) but he's also the director most recently, of the film adaptation of Othello starring Larry Fishburne. " People Online Appearance Transcript of on-line appearance, 30 July 1998 Doug Bradley : "I'm deadly serious - although the idea began almost as a joke. We were talking about reviving one of Clive's plays and the [proposed] producer said, 'You know, what we ought to do is put Hellraiser on stage!' At first we all had a good laugh at this absurd notion...the more we thought about it and talked about it, the more of an intriguing possibility it became. After all, the first movie - which is what we'd be doing - has a very small cast, which is good for theatre, and it's effectively a one-set film. Immediately we could see the set, which would be a cutaway of the house in Ludovico Street, with all the action going on on different levels. And then there's the challenge of putting the effects on stage in real time. "The question is, do I want to sit in the stalls and watch some other [actor] do it? And the answer is no, I don't." Truly, Bradley, Creepily By David Hughes, Fangoria, No 175, August 1998 Doug Bradley : "One thing that is developing fairly well is a plan to put Hellraiser on the stage, and if it all comes together as planned we would be looking at a May start next year in the West End. Clive won't be involved, but he has given his blessing to the new play. He doesn't actually control all the rights to Hellraiser. He has the literary rights, but has no say over what happens on the screen to Pinhead. The original Hellraiser is the one we would be putting on stage, so I'd be spending a lot of the evening hanging around in the dressing room. It would involve a lot of make-up each night, but the bottom line is that I don't want some other bugger doing it. I can't face the thought of someone else opening the show in the West End or taking it over to Broadway." Hell To Pay By Nick Joy, Shivers, No 57, September 1998 Oliver Parker : "We were going to do it now, but the guy who was producing it... got cold feet. There are a lot of things you could do to surprise the audience. Or I might be wrong. It might surprise me and we'll fall flat on our faces." Pinhead Of The Class By Rebecca Ascher-Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 1999 Oliver Parker : "Clive is very keen to have it done, and he'll be involved in some respect." A Fearless Novice Takes on the Masters By Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 1999 Oliver Parker : "I've been directing feature films for a while now, but I'm keen to return to the stage at some point. I would love to resurrect some of Clive's plays one day, indeed have been developing a production of Hellraiser for the stage. We have a play script and design, but our plans are in abeyance at the moment, 'though we hope to pick them up soon." The Dogs: Some Random Canine Memories By Oliver Parker, e-mail correspondence with Phil and Sarah Stokes, 4 July 2002 History Of The Devil - The Opera ...Long favoured by companies around the world for production as a stage play, it seems that creative minds have wrought this into yet another format. A Dutch adaptation has garnered a favourable response, leading to its competition performance in Greece in November 2000... "History Of The Devil is now an opera - not by my hand - but by somebody's else hand and it's just won some prizes in France and it's going to be performed for the first time in Paris later this year. You know, that for me is extremely cool." Clive's Busy, Busy, Busy, Busy Year By Smilin' Jack Ruby, 13th Street, 12 July 2001 (note - full text online at www.13thstreet.com) Hellraiser : Hell On-Line ...This on-line game will (if and when it ever actually arrives on its dedicated site at www.hellraiseronline.com ) start as a simple puzzle that users must solve each time they visit the website. Each move of the box, we are promised, will reveal a deeper clue and story element. But this is to be no ordinary game, when you solve it or open it; you don't necessarily win. Opening the box is 'just the beginning of an on-line gaming experience unlike anything else on the web'. Uh huh... Larry Kasanoff (Chairman/CEO of Threshold Entertainment) : "Hellraiser is one of the best-known entertainment brands in the world! We're proud to further the development of the franchise with the first ever online game." TheThreshold.com Acquires Rights to Horror Franchise 'Hellraiser' Press Release - The Threshold.com, By Hanna Schmieder [?], 28 November 2000 Eric Gardner (CEO of Panacea Entertainment) : "Hellraiser is the quintessential on-line property both demographically and conceptually, and via TheThreshold.com Larry Kasanoff has provided us with the ideal virtual theater." TheThreshold.com Acquires Rights to Horror Franchise 'Hellraiser' Press Release - The Threshold.com, By Hanna Schmieder [?], 28 November 2000 Click here for Other Stuff That Got Away ...And Still To Come Index | Home page This page has been created for information and entertainment purposes only. All quotes remain the copyright of the original owners.