Mike Mignola talks new ‘Hellboy’ film ‘The Crooked Man’ & fate of Guillermo del Toro’s trilogy
Mike Mignola talks new ‘Hellboy’ film ‘The Crooked Man’ & fate of Guillermo del Toro’s trilogy
Unfortunately, it sounds like fans should give up hope on seeing Guillermo del Toro and Perlman returning for Hellboy 3.
The script also incorporates a number of elements from The Chained Coffin storyline, which sheds light on Hellboy’s backstory. But less was certainly more for Mignola, who believes the main failure behind the 2019 revamp was its desire to merge several decades’ worth of ideas into one cinematic entity. “Let’s not say, ‘Oh, but it'd be great to have Lobster Johnson!’ ‘It’d be great to have this other character in it!’ Yes, everybody's got favorite bits from 30 years of Hellboy, but let's not try to shoehorn a bunch of extra sh** in here where we don't need it.”
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On the less optimistic side of things, Mignola goes on to confirm that the odds of Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley) getting to close out his acclaimed Hellboy trilogy are lower than Hell itself:
“I just can't see him coming back to doing Hellboy again. He's got so many other things he's always wanted to do. It's a shame [the trilogy] didn't get finished, but I just don't think it was ever really going to happen. It was kind of a dream thing, but I don't think it was ever realistic. From what I understand, it would have been amazingly expensive, following up two movies that didn't make money.”
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Hold up there was a trilogy? I don't recall that what was the third film he directed?
The trilogy was never completed
Why?
... because there's only two movies.
Did you at least read the summary?Thats what I thought I just thought something may have skipped by. Also do you know if Ron is completely out of doing HB again?
Perlman said when the 2019 movie was being planned that without Del Toro, he wasn't interested, and Del Toro isn't interested in doing it at this point.
The 2019 movie was a reboot rather than the third movie, even though it was originally meant to be the third.
This new one is another reboot.
Ron is in his mid 70s now. I don't think he is up for all that makeup and physical work anymore
Money.
As well loved as the first movie is, and to a lesser degree the second, they weren't big enough money makers at the time, so nobody was willing to pony up and make them
Why?
Mignola:
From what I understand, it would have been amazingly expensive, following up two movies that didn’t make money.”