Hellboy

Despite a limited budget, I found the movie to be very inspired and well done. I thought the acting was solid and was genuinely creeped out for most of the movie. It isn’t the best adaptation of the character in my opinion—I think the animated movies Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron hold that title—but I think it’s a solid dark horror movie take on the character and enjoyed it much more than the 2019 adaption.

What did others think?

I just watched the documentary. As a fan of Hellboy, Mignola, Del Toro and Perlman, it was a real treat to watch and learn more about Mignola’s life and the history of the character. Big recommend! Anyone else see it?

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/15979560

Mike Mignola has been involved in the new Hellboy reboot from the very beginning. The comic book legend penned the original script for the R-rated movie Hellboy: The Crooked Man with Christopher Golden and has been part of the process of bringing it to the screen throughout.

Speaking to GamesRadar+ at San Diego Comic-Con, Mignola opened up about how much he enjoyed being involved from the very beginning. "So often I would come in late on projects where somebody else had already put the pieces together in a way that didn't quite fit," he told us. "And this time, I got a chance to say, 'We're going to do The Crooked Man, we're going to stick to that story.' We need to add a little bit of backstory. So we borrowed it from one other story so we didn't have to make up new stuff."

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Mignola has been involved with many of the Hellboy adaptations in various forms. "Every one of them has been a very different experience," he added. "But as somebody who's had mixed feelings about the earlier films, the one lesson I learned is if I can get in at the very beginning, and at some point you know you're gonna lose – I mean you never have control but you feel like you have control at the beginning and then you hope that somebody doesn't take apart the thing you built. That happens."

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"This is the only movie where I wasn't on set at all but the only movie where I've actually seen dailies every day so it was about one day behind where they were shooting. Almost every day was amazement of, 'Oh my god that looks like that, this looks like this. Oh my god, they used the same angle for that shot.' It really was that amazing thing of seeing your work brought to life."

What do we think?

First look of Jack Kesey as Hellboy in Hellboy The Crooked Man, in theaters 2024. What do we think?

Pretty great way to experience the series if you haven't already.

Wow! This wasn't even on my radar. Fingers crossed for it. If it goes direct to streaming, perhaps it will have a similar experience to Prey on Hulu is the film is good and positive word of mouth spreads.

What do we think Hellboy fans? I'm not much of a gamer, but as a fan of the comics, this looks cool!

Anyone else looking forward to the recently announced upcoming mini-series?

Welcome Hellboy & B.P.R.D. fans! Let's make this community great! Here is an art piece that I procured in New Orleans that resides in my home office.