HELLBOY... reboot?!?

[Jinzo Ningen]

Looks like it's a thing.



Apparently now we'll never see the third installment of DelToro's saga. Shame.

[Benjamin Haines]

Yeah, this was announced a month ago (and shared in the ).


I think it's a waste of an opportunity to turn the existing film duology into a completed trilogy. But hey, once this reboot underperforms and never gets a sequel, then Millennium Films will have another R-rated actioner in the $5 bin at Walmart. That's worth it, right?

[lhb412]

^ Oooh, harsh. Understandable, but harsh.

[mr.negativity]

[mr.negativity]

AUGUST 01, 2017THR :

McShane will play Hellboy’s adoptive father, Professor Broom.

[lhb412]

You know, McShane is the first piece of news I really like with no reservation.

[mr.negativity]

Me too.

[lhb412]

*fist bump*

[mr.negativity]

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola hopes the R-rated reboot of the property will be the catalyst for a new cinematic universe.

[lhb412]

^ Yeah, someone tell Mike not to get ahead of himself.

[lhb412]

http://www.cbr.com/hellboy-ed-skrein/

Why have they cast a white Englishman as a Japanese American character?

[lhb412]

Seriously, this movie is cursed so that each bit of positive news is followed by horrible news.

"GDT and Ron Perlman are off the series in favor of a reboot"
"That's terrible!"

"David Harbour is Hellboy"
"Well, I like that guy... he may do good"

"Millenium films is producing"
"Oh, they traffic in crap"

"Ian McShane is Professor Broom"
"Oh, wow; he's terrific in everything!"

"Ben Daimio, the grizzled, middle-aged Japanese American character, is played by a pretty white boy"
"OH, SON OF A "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!"!!!"

[lhb412]

And Ed Skrein does the classy thing and drops out of the role of Ben Daimio!

https://twitter.com/edskrein/status/902244967296491520

Good for him!

Still concerned that the type of people who could make such a stupid mistake in the first place are still in charge of this movie, though.

[TerranigmaFreak]

[lhb412]

^Is there a more iconic Asian actress than Emma Stone? I think not!

[Specium Ray]

I sort of don't know what to make of his claim that he didn't know the character was half-Japanese... I mean, it's the right decision, for the sake of Asian-American actors as well as his own career. But just.. really? You didn't research this character at all?

[jellydonut25]

[lhb412]

Daniel Dae Kim is reportedly in talks to play Daimio. Now, he's Korean, not Japanese (close geographically!) ... but, he is pretty great and I think can really do the character justice.

[lhb412]

First image of Harbour Hellboy:



Pretty good, still looks like Hellboy in much the same way the GDT/Perlman version did - the didn't try to reinvent the wheel, which is good. He's just a bit scragglier. They left out the skin carving pattern that GDT added, and the Right Hand of Doom looks smooth like ceramic or polished stone, while GDT went with giving it a rough, rocky surface texture.

[mr.negativity]

^Cool!

[jellydonut25]

Looks like Hellboy.

[lhb412]

Beginning to cycle back to anticipating this movie. I do love Hellboy, and while I am disappointed we don't get a trilogy capper for the previous two films I can't wish failure on a new Hellboy project.

But the pessimist inside me thinks about the whole 'good news, bad news' seesaw of the film so far and wonders what theoretical bad news could come around to counteract the positive response to Kim's casting and the reveal of Hellboy's new look!

[lhb412]

Wells Cathedral in England allows Hellboy to film there once church officials look up 'Hellboy' and make sure he's a good guy:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/wells-cathedral ... socialflow

BTW, the movie's apparently lost its subtitle and is just "Hellboy" now. I suppose we'll have to do "Hellboy '04" and "Hellboy '19" from now on.

[klen7]

... I really dislike this trend in franchises

[jellydonut25]