For years it felt like a third Hellboy movie would never happen. And it’s not.
Seriously, don’t think of this movie as Hellboy 3 (for more on that, see my first point below).
Instead, Neil Marshall’s film is returning to the source material and attempting to bring to a wider audience the world Mike Mignola has been creating now for over a quarter of a century. Below are some of the key ways the new adaptation is trying to achieve that design.
1. Don’t Call It Hellboy 3
Director Neil Marshall is really hoping people don’t approach his movie with that mindset. Maybe it’s because he’s already turned down making that movie.
“I was first approached about possibly doing a Hellboy 3,” the British director tells me in between takes on the film’s Bulgarian set. In fact, we’re sat in a dark corner of the Osiris Club, with dark wooden bookcases encircling us. It’s all very atmospheric. “My response to that was, ‘Well, that’s somebody else’s terrain and I don’t want to step on their turf.’ But I was like, ‘If you are thinking about doing a reboot any time, then I’d love to do that.’”
Source: IGN.com Hellboy: 13 Things to Know About the Gory, Gothic Reboot