Clive Barker Says Nightbreed TV Series Is Coming Together

If you still have a desire to visit Midian again, you may get your chance soon. In an interview with his official website, Clive Barker said that work is progressing on the announced Nightbreed TV series, which is expected to air on SYFY.

He said: “Nightbreed is also moving forward at quite a rate with a couple of very well-known directors showing a great deal of interest in it. I am on board to provide mythologies and ideas and hopefully put the Barkerian weirdness on the material. At the moment, we’re putting the team together: we have a writer, director, producers and now that the New Year has begun we’ll all get together and start to plan the long-term narrative, not just the opening narrative which is what we’ve done so far. I have the sense that, if all the things that I’ve been promised come true, there is a real passion for matching the tone of both the book and the film.”

The series will be based on Barker’s 1988 novel Cabal. Barker will be involved with the series, along with writer Josh Stolberg (Jigsaw), Universal Cable Productions and Morgan Creek Entertanment, which produced the original 1990 film.

Here’s a synopsis: Nightbreed explores race relations in America, only the races are Humans and Monsters. It follows a group of underground half-human/half-monsters seeking to find a new refuge and home after their original hiding place is destroyed. Leading these efforts is a recently turned reluctant hero who not only is adjusting to his new supernatural status but also is dealing with the grief and mystery surrounding the death of his fiancée. Will this group band together despite being hunted and persecuted by humans who find their “otherness” to be frightening?