As a cultural movement, the Italian Renaissance affected only a small part of the population. Italy was the most urbanized region of Europe, but three quarters of the people were still rural peasants. For this section of the population, life remained essentially unchanged from the Middle Ages.
Although I enjoyed the book, The Hellbound Heart, the movie version, Hellraiser - with the awesomely cheesy blue and yellow 80's FX - is a bit better and mainly because it was more fully realized.
Shooter is based on Stephen Hunter's best-selling novel Point of Impact, and the titular 2007 Paramount film starring Mark Wahlberg, who is executive producing the series. John Hlavin (The Shield) wrote the pilot and will also executive produce.