New Hellboy To Be Less Superhero And More Horror
Fans were originally skeptical when they learned that a new Hellboy was in the works. The reason, Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman, who is the original Hellboy, are not involved. But the more we learn the more our interest is peaked. Mike Mignola, who created the character and co-wrote the new film, recently made a statement about what fans can expect from the movie. Andrew Cosby and Christopher Golden co-wrote the screenplay with Mignola. Well, I mean, if anything, we’re trying to do something very different. Basically, there’s no part of Hellboy that was ever going to be like other superhero movies. And the more Marvel stuff there is the more DC stuff there is, Hellboy never really feels like, even in the [Guillermo] del Toro things, a superhero movie. It’s so much ‘big teams of guys, in costumes, running around and saving the world from big cosmic menace stuff…’ I believe the new movie will feel even less
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