Originally posted by Spawnie
HellBoy was really entertaining, I laughed to his one sentence jokes and it had some nice action to it. Don't worry about Abe he's getting more screen time in the second movie, he'll play a bigger part and so will the flamegirl. perlman is just the right guy for the role, and he makes the character fun to watch. hellboy is been a much better success then expected, and I want my DVD of it also.
Agreed.
News and Rumors:
August 25, 2004: "Guillermo del Toro, Selma Blair and Ron Perlman presented Hellboy here in Berlin last night and were available for Q & A. Guillermo was very nice, funny and outspoken, but Ron and Selma seemed tired. They all confirmed that Hellboy 2 is signed and on the way, but Guillermo is at least making one other, smaller movie before that in spain. As for the story of Hellboy 2 Guillermo did not seem to have already made up his mind, but Abe and Selma's characters will get much more room and Kroenen seems not to come back in the first sequel. As they were not sure if there would be a sequel when making Hellboy, they tried to get as much good stuff from the comics into it as possible to have it on screen at least once. So many ideas were used up for Hellboy 1 and they seemingly have to search first for new ones to fill Hellboy 2." Thanks to 'CountingDown.com' for the news story which came from a 'AICN' scooper.
August 3, 2004: Guillermo del Toro spoke to Moviehole in an upcoming interview: "I start writing it in the Fall and then it'll depend on how fast we get a script we're all happy about and how fast we can work out a budget and a date. It's in the future, but I wouldn't put a date on it. In the next Hellboy adventure he'll (David Hyde-Pierce's Abe Sapien) have a more prominent role. She'll be back (Selma Blair). Jeffrey Tambor will be back. We will have a good class of weirdos around. "
Originally posted by Spawnie
Is that a sig with the toy Predator from MCFarlane Toys 🙂? Muahahhhhhhha! McFarlane Toys is gonna rase the toy quality, I hope.
Originally posted by Spawnie
MArtianManhunter? Can I se a pic of that somewhere?
or click here:
http://www.planethancock.com/leslie/gifs/cape-manhunter.gif
I agree, the acting was way better then I expected, cuz some actors can't act good with massive makeup. Sometimes just looks stupid, but with hellboy I was very entertained. My friend, that usually craps on movies that r based on comics, said that Hellboy was way better then any of the X-Men. Now, I was really surprised that a preson that usually doesn't admire comics had a really positive experience with HellBoy.
I hope someone does something about that Martian's costume 🙁. Those boots gotta go and the speedos too. That martian looks a bit like Piccolo from DBZ, lol.
Guillermo Wants a Hellboy Trilogy
Source: Empire Online
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
Empire magazine interviewed Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro, who's currently writing the sequel, and he mentioned a third film as well...
First of all, what word on Hellboy 2 – and possibly beyond? Well, Guillermo is writing a sequel, along with comic creator Mike Mignola. "I would love to make Hellboy into a trilogy. Creatively, Mike Mignola and I know that we want to at least do that. Economically, it's the studio's decision." But what of the plot of the sequel? "We tried to do an entire sequel based on the Roger [a homunculus created by a scientist to bring about the end of the world] origin story, and found it to be actually very similar to what Hellboy is in the first movie — a conflicted monster. So the sequel will have another BPRD member, Johan the Ectoplasmic Agent."
Mike Mignola Talks Hellboy 2
Source: TechTV
September 10, 2004
Mike Mignola talked to G4 TechTV and revealed that a Hellboy 2 storyline has been written...
Alex then asked Mike about the origins of Hellboy ("After 10 years in the comics business, I wanted to make something about everything I like."😉 and if there would be a Hellboy movie sequel. Mike reported that he had indeed written a new storyline with director Guillermo del Toro and that the studio was pleased with it. While he wouldn’t reveal the plot, Mike did say that the sequel would be closer to the comic books in spirit, dealing more with mythology and folklore. "Hopefully, this will be Guillermo's next movie after the one he's currently working on in Spain," Mike said.
Stay tuned for more on the sequel.
Source: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=4178
HELLBOY 2
Dynamic Forces has a note from Mike Mignola about the in-development sequel. "Mike reported that he had indeed written a new storyline with director Guillermo del Toro and that the studio was pleased with it. While he wouldn�t reveal the plot, Mike did say that the sequel would be closer to the comic books in spirit, dealing more with mythology and folklore. 'Hopefully, this will be Guillermo's next movie after the one he's currently working on in Spain,' Mike said."
Meanwhile actress Selma Blair spilled all brand of beans to FilmForce about the sequel, playing Liz Sherman and how the success of the films is affecting her personal life. "I would love to have a child," she said, "but I want to wait until 'Hellboy's' over, because that will be another long, arduous shoot in another country. Unfortunately I don't start that for 25 years ... Yeah, I start that, probably in a year and a half. Guillermo's working on something else, so I'll probably have to wait. But, you know, maybe not, if I got pregnant now. Basically, I'm not pregnant and I don't know when I will be. I'm never not trying though."
Blair has already heard the basic story for the next film. "I talked with Guillermo last week, I was in Europe with him and he told me some of it, but I'm sworn to secrecy. But it's so good, it's so good, I'm so excited, and it's funny." She says that, from what she's heard, the sequel should start right where the first one ended. "I think immediately. I think in the same time."
She also discussed the costuming for her character. "I did the costumes, I didn't physically make them. But yeah, we kinda came together with what I want. I want Liz to be a little bit more controlled and sexier for the second one, so hopefully the wardrobe will look like that."
Guillermo del Toro Discusses Hellboy 2
Written by Scott Collura
Monday, 15 November 2004
With comic book movies all the rage, one of the most wished-for properties among fans has been Mike Mignola’s demonic detective Hellboy from the Dark Horse Comics series. When the film version debuted last March, it was scored a modest—if not breakout—success and almost immediately rumors began to emerge about a Hellboy 2. Now, in an exclusive interview with Now Playing Magazine, writer-director Guillermo del Toro reveals that a sequel to the film is actively being developed.
“The storyline for this one is going to be created both by Mike Mignola and I, and we’ve been on the phone [talking] about it and just jamming,” says del Toro. “We have one idea that we have been nurturing since the early stages of the first film and we’re fleshing it out. Definitely, it’s been a very active communication.”
The director reveals that Mignola spent several weeks in Los Angeles with him this past summer to “put the basic story down on paper.” del Toro will pen the screenplay himself, but the filmmaker has a smaller project set to start filming before production on Hellboy 2 begins.
With that said, del Toro is also anxious to get back to the universe of Hellboy and the characters he transformed into flesh and blood people for the first film.
“Most everybody is coming back,” he says. “Abe Sapien is coming back. Liz, Myers…even Professor Broom is doing a little cameo. We have a moment in the movie where you see Professor Bruttenholm as a younger man reading a story to Hellboy.”
In addition to the leads, there are several supporting characters from Mignola’s world that the director can’t wait to explore on film in the sequel.
“You will get new characters from the B.P.R.D. comics,” says del Toro, referring to Hellboy’s organization, the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. “You’re going to get Johan, the guy with no body, which is a really great character. And we’re going to have a little surprise cameo from one of the villains from the first film.”
With a green light from Sony and Revolution Studios, del Toro and his team still have some time to get started on the actual production.
“We’re going to be thinking about late 2005 at the earliest to start pre-production,” he concludes. “You never know with these things, but that would be a good guess.”
Hellboy 2 currently has a target release date of 2006.
UPDATE: del Toro on Hellboy II Characters!
Source: Superhero Hype!
November 15, 2004
UPDATE: Guillermo del Toro tells Superhero Hype! that the interview above may have been done a long time ago as neither Agent Myers nor Kroenen will be back. "Neither Myers nor Kroenen are back in any significant way in the sequel, escept in cameo form," says del Toro. "I just wanted to clarify this for the sake of any reader interested in being 'up to date' on the developments of the film."
