We had been hearing rumblings about a “Nightbreed” television series for the last several years, and Clive Barker himself has revealed tonight in a chat with Coming Soon that Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r Treat, Godzilla: King of the Monsters) is on board to direct!
“It’s exciting, after 30 years, to go back to these characters and find out who’s still speaking to me, who wants their story told,” Barker told the site “My tongue isn’t in my cheek when I say that as when I start a piece, it’s listening. The writing is a piece of listening, I’ve always said I was a journalist and what I was reporting on was the space between my ears.”
Josh Stolberg (Jigsaw) is writing the planned series with Barker.
Interestingly, Dougherty is also working on HBO’s “Hellraiser” series.
Clive Barker wrote and directed the 1990 feature film Nightbreed, an adaptation of his novella Cabal. In the film, “A troubled young man (Craig Sheffer) is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer (played by filmmaker David Cronenberg!) is looking for a patsy.”
