It was just over a year ago that Dimension Films
first announced plans to remake Hellraiser, the 1987 horror hit which introduced
movie audiences to an amiable chap named Pinhead. Since then, a prolonged
writers' strike and turmoil at Dimension's parent, the Weinstein Company,
have combined to repeatedly stall the project in that Hollywood
wonderland known as "development hell."
Now it seems that the Hellraiser reboot may finally
be moving forward. Our pals at Bloody-Disgusting report that producers are close to a deal
with 
Frenchie director Pascal Laugier (Martyrs) to helm the new version, which
was once slated to open in January of 2009. That ain't gonna happen, obviously.
A Halloween '09 release, on the other hand, isn't out of the question.
Now that a director has been apparently nailed down
(pun intended), we can commence Pinhead casting speculation. How 'bout Moby? He could use the work.