Ok now ,everybody knows here how much of a big Hellboy fan I am and how much I would love to see a third film. Writing this article gives me no joy at all so let's get too the point. Recently with all the press for
Pacific Rim, there's been talks about
Hellboy 3 due to the fact the director and star of the Hellboy series and the director and a star in
Pacific Rim. Recently Guillermo del Toro did an interview with Collider in which he discussed
Hellboy 3. Here is the video of what he said about
Hellboy 3 and below are quotes from the video in case you're on a phone and can't watch it.
“It’s very unlikely it’ll happen because you need things to converge so strongly. [Producer] Larry Gordon, Universal, the rights, Ron [Perlman’s] and mine’s availability, [comic creator] Mike [Mingola’s] blessing; we have pieces of that, but we don’t have all of that. You need so many things to confluence and then you need about $150 million.”
When asked if he would do a
Hellboy 3 in the form of comics or a graphic novel in a way how
Dredd 2 is, del Toro had this to say:
“I talked to Mike about making it a comic and Mike said very clearly, ‘Hellboy the movies is yours, Hellboy the comics is mine; I don’t wanna confuse them.’ He has been very clear about not bringing any mythology we did in the movies into the comics, like Kroenen being a mechanical clockwork zombie Nazi, or The Samaritan, which is not called ‘The Samaritan’ in the comics, or Big Baby, or Abe Sapien being like the character he is in the movies, which is different. In the comics he’s a hard-ass, Abe Sapien is really a tough guy, and in the movie he’s like this sensitive, mind reading fish man. So [Mike] is very careful, no love story between Liz and Hellboy, so on and so forth."
del Toro finally said that he does have a story ready and prepared for
Hellboy 3 and that it would be a completely different direction than the first 2 installments:
“The way Hellboy 1 and Hellboy 2 are very different from each other, Hellboy 3 is different enough from the other two that it wouldn’t feel like the same universe in scale. He does become the beast of the apocalypse. But seeing the apocalypse is getting more and more—the bar is raised higher and higher every year; mass destruction is becoming the sport of the summer.”
It is important to note that Mike Mingola has said he would love to do a
Hellboy 3, Ron Perlman has said he wants to do a
Hellboy 3 and currently the film rights to Hellboy are with Universal but Legendary Studio's President has said he is interested in a third Hellboy and one of the places Legendary Studios is looking to move into is Universal. It's possible but it's all really a matter of how great
Pacific Rim is. At the end of the day, I still do have hope that this movie will be made and I do think it will because everybody wants to do it, it's all really a matter of getting everybody in the same room and agreeing to make it. What are your thoughts on this? I need a drink. Where you at
cipher?