One creator who certainly keeps tabs on the adaptations made from his books is Mr. Clive Barker. (Not long ago he ragged on the most recent Hellraiser sequel, and rather fittingly in my opinion.) But a recent interview with the prolific artist yielded two small but very interesting pieces of good news: 1. There definitely are producers out there who want to turn Barker's Abarat series into a movie or two: "very large scale, very expensive and very visual and, boy, Abarat is going to be, I think, a very different kind of movie," says the author. He also assures his fans that Disney will not be involved. Heh. 2. The 1990 feature Nightbreed, which Barker wrote and directed (based on his own story, "Cabal"), may soon become a cable series with lots of sex...

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