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Is Clive Barker thinking of bringing Nightbreed to the small screen?!

Mar. 31, 2012by: Jared Pacheco
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You guys are all familiar with Clive Barker's 1990 mutant romp NIGHTBREED, right? Of course you are. Now what if I was to tell you the legendary genre author was toying around with the idea of bringing NIGHTBREED to the small screen? Would that be something you might be interested in?

Of course it would! So that's why I've come here today to pass along some news Barker just dropped in an interview with Clive Barker Revelations. It seems the iconic scribe decided now would be a good time to drop the news. Check it out:

“We are also actively in conversation about doing a Nightbreed television series which will be for cable, so it will have a chance to be as sexy or as graphic in terms of the violence as we need it to be. For example, do you have Spartacus over there? Oh my God, it redefines gruesome... I also applaud them for finally realizing it’s not a bad thing to see a manhood once in a while – it’s not as if half the world doesn’t see it daily…”

"The sensitivity of our culture has sort of caught up with Nightbreed. I don’t wish to be immodest but the general sense is that the movie failed because people didn’t want to associate with the monster and I think our culture has changed – I think our culture is now ready to embrace the ambiguity. You’ve only got to look at Twilight where obviously the monsters are the good guys – I’m not a huge fan but I’m enough of a fan to watch and see monsters being celebrated. There’s something very satisfying about seeing the evolution of the werewolves... With Macy [Barker's dog] being unwell, he likes being with me 24 hours a day. I’m very aware that my love of animals – my love of dogs – is in there being satisfied in those movies - I mean, to be able to run fast and turn into a wolf – wow! Awesome! It really was a dream of my childhood – to have been a dog. It was something I always wanted to do."

So "Nightbreed" would be aimed for cable so it can "be as sexy or as graphic in terms of the violence as we need it to be." Yes! Yes, please?!

What do you guys think? You willing to give a "Nightbreed" TV show a shot? Be sure to spit some bullets below and let us know as we wait for more developments on this news to roll our way. To check out the rest of the interview, where Barker also talks about his being in a coma, head right over HERE.

Extra Tidbit: The great David Cronenberg actually had a role in NIGHTBREED as 'Dr. Decker.'
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1:14AM on 04/02/2012

oh yeah and also

in the final scene of the movie, Dr. Decker was actually turned into a Nightbreed by the priest (Decker despised the Nightbreed) but in the comic series... Decker was killed by Boone at the raid at Midian and did not survive.
in the final scene of the movie, Dr. Decker was actually turned into a Nightbreed by the priest (Decker despised the Nightbreed) but in the comic series... Decker was killed by Boone at the raid at Midian and did not survive.
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1:07AM on 04/02/2012

any NIGHTBREED would be good NIGHTBREED

more NIGHTBREED.... shit i've been saying that since 1990... and speaking of the '90's that's NOT what killed the movie, the advertizing sold it as a slasher flick not as a monster flick (monster movies WERE cool back in the 1990's) ...also BTZombe88... SHEFFER was Aaron Boone/AKA: CABAL NOT Dr Decker the mass murderer... switching those two roles would be way stupid because in the movie Dr. Decker FRAMED Aaron for all of HIS murders!
TAKE ME TO MIDIAN!
more NIGHTBREED.... shit i've been saying that since 1990... and speaking of the '90's that's NOT what killed the movie, the advertizing sold it as a slasher flick not as a monster flick (monster movies WERE cool back in the 1990's) ...also BTZombe88... SHEFFER was Aaron Boone/AKA: CABAL NOT Dr Decker the mass murderer... switching those two roles would be way stupid because in the movie Dr. Decker FRAMED Aaron for all of HIS murders!
TAKE ME TO MIDIAN!
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3:14AM on 04/02/2012
I know who played who in the original movie, but I'm saying for this TV show Craig Sheffer should play Dr. Decker since it will be a re-imagining. Kind of like how in the original Halloween series Danielle Harris played Laurie's niece Jamie, but in the remake she played best friend Annie. You know what I mean?
I know who played who in the original movie, but I'm saying for this TV show Craig Sheffer should play Dr. Decker since it will be a re-imagining. Kind of like how in the original Halloween series Danielle Harris played Laurie's niece Jamie, but in the remake she played best friend Annie. You know what I mean?
1:33PM on 04/01/2012
I'm so excited! I say Craig Sheffer could play Dr. Decker, he's a great actor and when I think of Nightbreed I think of him so I want him to be in it.
I'm so excited! I say Craig Sheffer could play Dr. Decker, he's a great actor and when I think of Nightbreed I think of him so I want him to be in it.
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1:09AM on 04/02/2012
Craig Sheffer played Aaron Boone AKA: Cabal, Decker framed Aaron for all the murders. Watch it again. Craig Sheffer turned up in one of the last direct-to-DVD 'Hellraiser Inferno' which was pretty cool, he played a detective.
Craig Sheffer played Aaron Boone AKA: Cabal, Decker framed Aaron for all the murders. Watch it again. Craig Sheffer turned up in one of the last direct-to-DVD 'Hellraiser Inferno' which was pretty cool, he played a detective.
11:20AM on 04/01/2012
As much as I love the original Nightbreed, knowing the studio interference with it I think that there is much more that could be brought to the table in this format, especially with Clive Barker behind it. I don't know how anybody can top David Cronenburg as Dr. Decker, but we'll have to wait and find out!!
As much as I love the original Nightbreed, knowing the studio interference with it I think that there is much more that could be brought to the table in this format, especially with Clive Barker behind it. I don't know how anybody can top David Cronenburg as Dr. Decker, but we'll have to wait and find out!!
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6:25AM on 04/01/2012

HELL YES

I love Barker and the Nightbreed mythology and would welcome a tv series with open arms! Best news in a long time!
I love Barker and the Nightbreed mythology and would welcome a tv series with open arms! Best news in a long time!
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4:07PM on 03/31/2012
I would love to see this actually happen. After Hellraiser, Nightbreed is my favorite Barker movie. Extremely underrated.
I would love to see this actually happen. After Hellraiser, Nightbreed is my favorite Barker movie. Extremely underrated.
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1:11AM on 04/02/2012
watch RAWHEAD REX then... hehe.
watch RAWHEAD REX then... hehe.

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