Two years later, Barker executive produced the housing-project story Candyman, as well as the 1995 sequel, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh. In 1990, he adapted and directed Nightbreed from his short story Cabal. Soon, Barker began publishing his The Books of Blood short fiction collections, but it was his debut novel, The Damnation Game, that widened his already growing international audience.īarker shifted gears in 1987 when he directed Hellraiser, based on his novella The Hellbound Heart, which became a veritable cult classic spawning a slew of sequels, several lines of comic books, and an array of merchandising. The following year, Barker joined the ranks of such illustrious authors as Gabriel García Márquez, Annie Dillard and Aldous Huxley when his collection of literary works was inducted into the Perennial line at HarperCollins, who then published The Essential Clive Barker, a 700-page anthology with an introduction by Armistead Maupin.īarker began his odyssey in the London theatre, scripting original plays for his group The Dog Company, including The History of the Devil, Frankenstein in Love and Crazyface. His 1998 Gods and Monsters, which he executive produced, garnered three Academy Award nominations and an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. An inveterate seeker who traverses between myriad styles with ease, Barker has left his indelible artistic mark on a range of projects that reflect his creative grasp of contemporary media - from familiar literary terrain to the progressive vision of his Seraphim production company. Gladiators a highly commercial and entertaining movie."Ī visionary, fantasist, poet and painter, Clive Barker has expanded the reaches of human imagination as a novelist, director, screenwriter and dramatist. I am looking forward to providing my own perspective to make Zombies Vs. Amazon Studios is an innovative creative concept.
In twenty-five years of working in this town, I've rarely had people listen to what I had to say as closely and as carefully as they did and then simply give me the freedom to go do it. My brief to myself on this project is to give the audience not only zombies they have never seen before but also a Rome they have never seen before."īarker added, "Amazon Studios offered up the dream ticket with this project. The other is a fantastical narrative element - the living dead. One of them concerns itself with the reality of the decadence of Rome and its rise and fall. Said Barker, "I'm excited by the opportunity to interweave two very rich narrative threads. "We are excited to see how Clive will add his unique narrative to capture the essence of this story and propel the project into something unique and original that could one day be enjoyed by all audiences."
Gladiators is now in the hands of someone who has written genre-defining material throughout his career," said Roy Price, director, Amazon Studios.
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