It's always nice when a writer thinks readers are idiots. 
Legendary AF: Hellboy (2019)
- Thread starter Kai "the spy"
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It's always nice when a writer thinks readers are idiots.
I don't know why he's assuming the same people who saw the movie are the same people who read the comics. I would make a solid bet more people saw the movies than ever read any of the comics.
Translation: he's tired of the more famous movie director being more popular and getting more credit than him.
A selfish but understandable perspective. If a studio were willing to put me in the driver's seat of a big-ass movie, I'd want to stay there, too.
That sucks, I think as long as the marked it clearly on the cover, most people would be able to understand the difference between it and the regular comics.
If people could figure out the difference between DC's Elseworlds and it's regular comics, and Marvel's What If? and Ultimate Comics and their regular comics, people could figure this one too. Hell, Marvel has even done MCU comics and I think most people didn't have a problem telling them apart from the regular comics.
Mignola's such an asshole. "You can't make that movie or comic because it isn't accurate to the tone of my comics!" *makes a shitty Underworld rip-off that's inaccurate to the tone of his own comics instead*
If he wasn't so damn pigheaded he could of had a Hellboy III helmed by a now mainstream Del Toro and used that to then spin-off a film series or TV series for his "true vision" reboot while maintaining nice chunk of that audience. Which would also function as ongoing advertising for his comics Walking Dead-style. Not to mention any potential spin-offs like B.P.R.D.
Now there probably won't be another Hellboy adaptation for decades if ever. That's what you get you greedy fuck!
Was it up to Migbola if 3 got made with GDT?
On February 21, 2017, after tweeting out in January that he was meeting with Mignola to discuss Hellboy III, Del Toro then tweeted this.
Then just five months later Mignola told the following account to Nerdist.
Mignola was dead set on making this shitshow the next Hellboy movie. So Mignola's original plan was to make the Mignola version of Hellboy III (ostensibly similar to the reboot movie in plot and tone due to his early 2017 comments about finally making a Hellboy movie that was "truthful to the tone" of his comics) directed and/or produced by Del Toro and starring Perlman, presumably to win over the fans. When Del Toro and Perlman balked at this and demanded to make their Hellboy III or they'd walk, Mignola tweaked the script and made it a reboot.
Now he's claiming that a Hellboy III comic miniseries would "confuse readers" despite the fact the he himself has produced two animated Hellboy movies that aren't canon to the Del Toro movies or the Mignola comics (he co-wrote the second one), several non-canon Hellboy novels and short story collections (all illustrated by him despite only two of them being canon) and even several non-canon Hellboy comics (Hellboy: Weird Tales, Savage Dragon/Hellboy, Batman/Hellboy/Starman, Ghost/Hellboy, Hellboy Junior), several of which he wrote himself!!! He is so fucking full of shit I'm surprised he hasn't exploded.
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I just finished watching this movie, and it is absolutely awful. There are far too many characters and set pieces that move too quickly to be of any interest. It's like they took 25 different scripts and threw them all together. David Harbour is actually really good as Hellboy, but I can't see anything else good about the movie.
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I really hates when that happens... great casting ruined by awful movie that flops.
I watched this earlier this week, and it was.. OK. I liked it enough to watch it all the way through, but that was about it. My first thought when I finished it was that I really wish we had gotten the third Guillermo Del Toro movie more than ever.
The actors did do a pretty good job with what they were given, but what they were given was just no where near as interesting as what we got from GDT. Definitely didn't like Alice and Ben Daimio anywhere near as much as Abe and Liz. The story was OK.
GDT's movies are 2 of my all time favorites, and this did not even come close.
I'm don't mind some gore, but the whole scene with the demons being unleashed went overboard for me, it was just gross and completely unnecessary.
The actors did do a pretty good job with what they were given, but what they were given was just no where near as interesting as what we got from GDT. Definitely didn't like Alice and Ben Daimio anywhere near as much as Abe and Liz. The story was OK.
GDT's movies are 2 of my all time favorites, and this did not even come close.
I'm don't mind some gore, but the whole scene with the demons being unleashed went overboard for me, it was just gross and completely unnecessary.