Shockingly, at that time, the plan was for Damnation Game to star both Sean Connery and Paul Newman.īeyond that, Ed Harris, Kim Basinger and Maggie Smith were also courted for supporting roles. When Phoenix acquired the rights to the novel, they immediately began searching for huge, A-list talent both in front of and behind the camera. But it’s a deal handled in a very Barkerian way, with a Mephistopheles figure named Mamoulian, a resurrected sword-swallower and an examination of the thin line between life and death, as well as the nature of greed.Īttempts to bring the novel to life go back at least as far as 2001, at which point it would have been a major studio production from Warner Bros. And, of course, it’s a deal that predictably goes south. The Damnation Game hinges on many of the same basic concepts as Hellraiser: it’s about a deal with the devil, essentially.
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