Director Pascal Laugier has revealed that his remake of cult horror movie Hellraiser will be "more epic" than the original.
However, the French filmmaker has promised fans that he will stay true to Clive Barker's original screenplay, which was based on his critically acclaimed novella The Hellbound Heart.
"I won't betray Clive Barker's work. I want to do a fresh film filled with a lot of unexpected and surprising things," he told Ain't It Cool. "At the same time, I want it to be connected to the real, original material.
"We'll get the chance to have much more money than even Clive had in the first film, so it will be of course more epic, it will be bigger, and I hope that it won't be softer."
Laugier admitted that he jumped at the chance to remake the movie because of the effect watching it as a child had on him.
"Hellraiser is a child's dream coming true," he said. "I saw the first when I was 13, I remember precisely the shock it had on me because it was so new, so fresh, so it's very hard to resist the temptation to do [it].
"I felt it was a good idea to do a new Hellraiser... the franchise has been killed by really, really cheap and bad direct-to-DVD sequels... and the franchise deserves something more ambitious, you know, and more serious, so for me it's a huge chance to be allowed to handle it."