Hellboy, the otherworldly comic book antihero first
brought to the big screen by Guillermo del Toro in 2004 and then in 2008, is
returning except this time without the filmmaker at the helm.
Millennium is in negotiations with producers Larry
Gordon and Lloyd Levin to reboot the property.
Neil Marshall ("The Descent," "Game of
Thrones") is set to direct the project from a script written by Andrew
Cosby, Christopher Golden, and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. The new film is
being developed under the working title Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen.
Del Toro is not involved with the project in any
capacity, nor is Ron Perlman, the actor who played the famous character in both
of del Toro's Hellboy films.
Replacing Perlman is Stranger Things star David
Herbour should a deal is made.
Created by Mignola in 1993, Hellboy tells of a demon
raised by a professor, who works at the Bureau for Paranormal Research and
Defense, an organization dedicated to fight supernatural baddies.
Del Toro wrote and directed Hellboy (2004), and
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008). Neither film was smashing box office hit,
with the later suffering from opening six days before Christopher Nolan's The
Dark Knight starring Heath Ledger. Despite that, both movies garnered a strong
following, and there were rumblings a possible third and final entry in the
series with del Toro and Perlman hoping to return. Alas that didn't manifest
and the project died.
Marshall is currently working on the script with Aron
Coleite, whose previous credits also include NBC's Heroes.
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