![]() ![]() ![]() Should del Toro agree to return to the franchise, consider Perlman locked in.Just weeks after learning that the Hellboy franchise is set to be rebooted, Ron Perlman, who starred in Guillermo del Toro’s two live-action adaptations, appeared at the Motor City Comic Con in front of hundreds of fans.ĭuring the Q+A session, shared below, Perlman talks about the long-gestured and now defunct Hellboy 3. The director just released “Nightmare Alley” and has a stop-motion musical adaptation of “Pinocchio” arriving on Netflix in December. “Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman created this iconic thing that we thought could be reinvented and then certainly - the loudness of the internet was like, ‘We do not want you to touch this.’ People were just very very against it and that’s people’s right.”ĭel Toro is perhaps too busy to tackle “Hellboy 3” at the moment. “I think it failed before we began shooting because I think that people didn’t want us to make the movie,” Harbour posted on social media. I wished them well, but it was not in my bailiwick.”įan loyalty to del Toro and Perlman is what Harbour cited as the downfall for his “Hellboy” reboot. ![]() “So in walking away from it, I truly walked away from it, and haven’t seen it or heard much about it. “The reboot was something I had the opportunity to participate in and decided that the only version of ‘Hellboy’ I’m interested in is the one I do with Guillermo,” Perlman said at the time. Perlman told CBM in 2020 that he turned down an offer to appear in the 2019 reboot because of his loyalty to del Toro. The movie was a notorious box office bomb, grossing $44 million worldwide on a $50 million production budget. “The Descent” filmmaker Neil Marshall stepped into the director’s chair and “Stranger Things” favorite David Harbour took over the title role. The “Hellboy” franchise was rebooted in 2019 without del Toro or Perlman’s involvement. ![]()
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