I am super stoked about the new Hellboy. David Harbour looks amazing in the Hellboy makeup and costume, they are covering one of my favorite Hellboy stories with Wild Hunt, Neil Marshall of The Descent fame is directing, and even though I don't care much for Milla Jovovich, I think she will do a fine job as the Blood Queen, a notorious supernatural bitch in the comic books. I friggin love Hellboy, alright? I mean, look at this:
Badass, am I right? I'm right.
We also have a new pic of Harbour as Hellboy, courtesy of Empire magazine.
David Harbour had this to say about the character and the upcoming film earlier in the year, in an interview with Vanity Fair:
Harbour: We wrapped [Season 2 of Stranger Things] in, I think, May or June of last year. Then I had the summer off, and then I went to Bulgaria in late August and started shooting Hellboy... It’s a classically complicated hero. He’s a creature that was meant to bring about the end of the world, and he just sort of wants to be a good guy. He’s got that complexity to him. He’s also a monster who lives among human beings, so he’s in a sense fighting for human beings against his fellow monsters, and yet the humans hate him because they fear him and they think he’s weird looking and everything.
Vanity Fair: He’s different.
Harbour: Yeah, he’s terrifying! There’s that question of, why am I fighting this battle? Just because of some sense of justice, or some sense of good? It’s a really interesting question that sort of is at the core of him, that he struggles with . . . I know that [writer] [Mike] Mignola and [director] Neil [Marshall] and [producer] Lloyd [Levin] all watched Stranger Things and saw that in what I did there, which is similar. He has a heart that’s really good and with a lot of this crusted-over stuff. What I’m dealing with in Hellboy is a lot different, bigger in a certain way. It’s very Shakespearean. It’s demons and witches and stuff like that. But it has a similar core to a dude who’s trapped in horrible circumstances who’s just trying to be a good guy.
In a recent interview with Empire magazine, director Neil Marshall had this to say about the bloody, darker take on the Hellboy franchise, and I am loving it.
“It was always a case of, ‘When in doubt, go back to the source material.’ Some of the stuff is pretty sick. More violent and more bloody. We weren’t making it with handcuffs on. “It’s like, ‘Okay, so now we can just make the movie we want to make. Nobody’s going to stop us. So, that’s the main [difference].”
Hellboy releases on April 12th, 2019.
