Couple of newssites making a big deal out of the announcement that the new movie will be aiming for an R-rating, with phrases like "finally an R-rated Hellboy movie" thrown around. Wasn't the 2019 movie R-rated, too?
Another Hellboy reboot is coming sooner than you think...
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Yep. Although there's not that much about the comic that really demands one, in my opinion.
Jack Kesey (no, me neither) has been cast in the lead role https://www.thewrap.com/jack-kesy-hellboy-the-crooked-man/
So from acting legend Ron Perlman, to the much loved David Harbour to, uh, this guy...
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Well, I see he was on The Strain by Guillermo del Toro, so there's a link there.
The eternal optimist in me is thinking that, if done right, it could work well as a sort of “day in the life” movie like Dredd, that doesn’t need a massive budget or huge stakes. But the eternal optimist in me has been wrong before.
A lot of the comics I've read are pretty similar in structure to the X-Files. Hellboy travels around and gets into paranormal adventures. This could work.
Well, no matter how low-budget and bad looking you were expecting this to be, you were still setting your expectations too high...
They just keep lowering the bar. Pretty soon it’s going to be a sci-fi channel movie(which this already looks like)
Or a really low budget tv series episode of Hellboy the series
Or a really low budget tv series episode of Hellboy the series
That doesn't even rise to below the level of The Asylum films.
This looks absolutely dreadful.
Edit: The whole thing looks and sounds like it's trying to ape the 2012 Dredd movie, in terms of being a small-scale movie and the grim intonations by Hellboy, but sweet mercy, none of it lands. At all. Not even in the same country, to say anything of being in the same ZIP code.
Edit: The whole thing looks and sounds like it's trying to ape the 2012 Dredd movie, in terms of being a small-scale movie and the grim intonations by Hellboy, but sweet mercy, none of it lands. At all. Not even in the same country, to say anything of being in the same ZIP code.
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PLEASE tell me this is a fan-made video!
It's like The Asylum version of a The Asylum movie!
Well, it looks smaller and going more into the horror of it, foregoing the big action eye candy spectacle of the previous films. And that's legitimate. There certainly have been Hellboy comics like that, smaller horror stories that have Hellboy be more of an investigator than an action hero.
Where it loses me is Hellboy himself. I mean, I guess I expected this when the casting was first announced and I had to look the guy up, but he certainly seems miscast for the role of Hellboy. So we might end up with a decent, if different, Hellboy movie, but with a horrible Hellboy. Which would be the complete reverse of the 2019 version, where David Harbour was a pretty good Hellboy, but the movie itself was shit.
But, hey, that teaser is anything but conclusive, so the movie itself being decent is just a hypothetical itself.
I'll say this, Mignola himself has co-written this with Christopher Golden, so it should be pretty true to the comics. Aside from having written three Hellboy novels, Golden has also written a lot of BtVS novels Vampirella comics, and my favorite DC prose novel, JLA: Exterminators. Though he's also the guy who wrote that terrible Punisher comic where he came back from the dead as an agent of heaven, just before Garth Ennis course-corrected.
And the director, Brian Taylor, well ... he's done the Crank movies and the Happy! streaming series from the Grant Morrison comic, which are a positive. But he's also done Gamer, Ghost Rider 2, and he wrote that Jonah Hex movie. So
Where it loses me is Hellboy himself. I mean, I guess I expected this when the casting was first announced and I had to look the guy up, but he certainly seems miscast for the role of Hellboy. So we might end up with a decent, if different, Hellboy movie, but with a horrible Hellboy. Which would be the complete reverse of the 2019 version, where David Harbour was a pretty good Hellboy, but the movie itself was shit.
But, hey, that teaser is anything but conclusive, so the movie itself being decent is just a hypothetical itself.
I'll say this, Mignola himself has co-written this with Christopher Golden, so it should be pretty true to the comics. Aside from having written three Hellboy novels, Golden has also written a lot of BtVS novels Vampirella comics, and my favorite DC prose novel, JLA: Exterminators. Though he's also the guy who wrote that terrible Punisher comic where he came back from the dead as an agent of heaven, just before Garth Ennis course-corrected.
And the director, Brian Taylor, well ... he's done the Crank movies and the Happy! streaming series from the Grant Morrison comic, which are a positive. But he's also done Gamer, Ghost Rider 2, and he wrote that Jonah Hex movie. So