Production wrapped on the new live-action Hellboy movie, "Hellboy: The Crooked Man".
"Hellboy" creator Mike Mignola took to Instagram to share his excitement about the project with the world.
"So they've wrapped principal photography on the new HELLBOY movie. I wasn't on set for this one but they have been nice enough to send me dailies and I have to say I have loved what I've been seeing. If fans have been waiting for a Hellboy film that is actually an adaptation of one of my stories I think they are finally going to get one," he said.
Mignola continued, "Congratulations to director Brian Taylor and a really wonderful cast--And to co-writer Chris Golden who did so much to figure out how to give the studio what they wanted and still keep true to the heart and soul of THE CROOKED MAN, my favorite of the Hellboy stories,"
"I wish Richard Corben was still around to see this--They did a wonderful job bringing his really horrific character to life."
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Hellboy made his comics debut in 1993 and has since become a mainstay of Dark Horse Comics' publishing line.
The character's first limited series -- 1994's Hellboy: Seed of Destruction by Mignola and John Byrne -- served as the basis for the first Hellboy feature film, which was released in theaters in 2004 from Sony Pictures and writer-director Guillermo del Toro.
Del Toro went on to write and direct a sequel, "Hellboy II: The Golden Army", which was released by Universal Pictures in 2008. The movies starred Ron Perlman as the eponymous superhero.
A third Hellboy movie helmed by Del Toro and starring Perlman was planned, though never came to be. As such, the property underwent reboot treatment in 2019.
David Harbour took over as the Dark Horse Comics character for a reboot directed by Neil Marshall and written by Andrew Cosby.
The reboot co-starred Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, and Dane Dae Kim was poorly reviewed and bombed at the box office, resulting in plans for a sequel that would have introduced a “vastly different” Abe Sapien being scrapped.
The Lionsgate-distributed reboot took inspiration from a number of different comics, including "Hellboy: Darkness Calls", "Hellboy: The Wild Hunt", "Hellboy: The Storm", "The Fury" and "Hellboy in Mexico".
However, the movie ultimately proved to be a critical and commercial failure.
Millennium Media will be rolling the dice on the franchise again with the upcoming live-action Hellboy movie.
Principal photography began last month in Bulgaria, one of the places where 2019’s Hellboy, as well as Millennium’s Red Sonja reboot, were filmed.
Mignola and author Christopher Golden, who did reportedly uncredited work on the last Hellboy movie and has written three Hellboy novels, are both receiving story credits for the new movie.
Jack Kesy will portray the lonely protagonist in the new movie. Horror elements related to the world of the character in the comic will serve as the main inspiration for the story.
The movie follows Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent as they get stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. They will discover a small community haunted by witches, led by the Crooked Man.
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