R-Rated HELLBOY Reboot with Director Neil Marshall and David Harbour to Star
Hellboy, the demonic comic book hero-turned- Guillermo del Toro film franchise, is poised to return to the big-screen, this time without the filmmaker at the helm.
Millennium is in negotiations with producers Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin for a new installment that would reboot and relaunch the property. Mike Richardson of Dark Horse Entertainment is also producing.
Neil Marshall, the horror director who broke out with
The Descent and won raves for his work on
Game of Thrones, is in talks to direct the project, which has a working title of
Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen and has a script by Andrew Cosby, Christopher Golden and
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.
Del Toro is not involved nor is Ron Perlman, the actor who inhabited the red-skinned cigar-chomping devil in the two previous installments.
Rather, David Harbour, the
Stranger Things star, is in talks play
Hellboy.
Creator Mike Mignola
announced on Facebook that the
Hellboy reboot will be R-rated.
If a deal makes, Millennium would become the third company to make a
Hellboy movie in as many releases.
Hellboy was created in 1993 by Mignola and became an indie comic hit as it told of a demon raised by a professor, working to fight supernatural evildoers for an organization called Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.
Last year del Toro, Dark Horse Entertainment, Levin and Gordon, the latter who controls the rights, explored their options. However, the budget was a stumbling block, with del Toro wanting a bigger canvas for his vision. In the end, the producers decided a reboot and relaunch was the more feasible route.
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Comments: Since Guillermo del Toro tried numerous times and unsuccessfully to make Hellboy 3, even declaring that the sequel is
100% not going to happen early this year, I'm fine with a reboot. Better to have a new series of Hellboy movies than nothing at all.
As for David Harbour casting, I think he's a terrific choice as Hellboy. He checks out in all the physical criteria. He's 6'3", a bit bulky and 42 years old (great age to build a franchise on for many, many years). He also has the gruffness, the voice and the attitude for the role.