Hellboy II: The Golden Army

[HempKnight]

Del Toro Updates Hellboy II - SciFi wire service

Guillermo del Toro, writer and director of the upcoming Hellboy II: The Golden Army, told fans that he and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola will write an original screen story for the sequel, not one based on previous material. Del Toro made the comments on the DelToroFilms.com bulletin board on March 13 in response to Hellboy star Ron Perlman's interview with SCI FI Wire last week, suggesting that the sequel would be based in part on elements from Mignola's comics.

"Ron took a few liberties with the facts concerning the project," del Toro wrote. "Mike and I wrote the screen story together, and I wrote the script. But it is NOT based on anything yet published, but Mike felt it had a lot of elements he has been keen to explore in the future of HB."

Del Toro added that the sequel would have a pivotal role for Abe Sapien, the amphibious character played in the first movie by Doug Jones and voiced by David Hyde Pierce. "One bit of good news or all Abe fans," del Toro said. "Abe has a really dramatic role in this new story."

As for the timing of the film, del Toro said: "HBII: The Golden Army is currently being 'put together' financially by [producer] Larry Gordon, et al. HBII is still my number-one priority, and no one is contemplating my 'stepping down' just yet. It is highly unlikely—albeit possible—that it would happen, but that would require a series of unfortunate financial, logistic, personal events that seem remote at best. More likely than not, if the project were to stall, I would still be attached as writer/director. The timing for HBII seems right, what with the anime, game, comic-book series, toys, etc. I believe that HB and the BPRD [Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense] are more than ever in the public's mind."


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Anyone else looking forward to it
coming out next year (if not sooner)?

[Buster Friendly]

Arung Un Rama!!!

[mmmcherry]

abe is one sexy bitch of a fishboy.

[Morning Glory]

sounds good. I liked the first one, although it didn't quite capture the same feel as you get from mike's art, but pretty cool nonetheless. they are also making an animated movie, although from what I heard it's not going to be japanese anime, so I don't know what that bit is about.

[Rockwulf]

I was so disappointed in the first movie.

I had heard about the comics but hadn't read them. Then, when I heard the movie was coming out and had some spare time, I went and read like 4 or 5 trade paperbacks in the span of a week or so.

I I felt I had a "fully charged" idea of what the characters were supposed to feel like and what the general feel of the "universe" was supposed to be. Not one that was tainted by years of fan-boy memories.

The movie was disapointing on all counts except for Pearlman's acting. He could have been a tad darker but I think he stayed true. As for the writing, cinematography, set design, and just about every other aspect, I consider it weak

[Black Spiral Dancer]

I'm certain Mike Mignola had Ron Perlman in mind when he came up with the Character.
As for being disappointed, movies adapted from comics rarely live up to the original. Judge Dredd was one. They change too much and spoil so much. If you're going to do a different story to the book, then go the whole hog and do something like DC's Elseworld series or Marvel's What If series, where they take normal charcters and put them in different stories.

Has anyone read Superman: Speeding Bullets, where the young Kal-el lands not in Kansas but just outside Gotham City and is found by Thomas & Martha Wayne. He's brought up as Bruce Wayne as normal, then his parents are killed. He suddenly comes into his powes and vapourizes the killer with his heat vision. So now we have a Batman with the added hardness of Superman and Claws on his Gloves. Superman with Batman's attitude!

[malcolm]

As for being disappointed, movies adapted from comics rarely live up to the original.

that is so true. one of the reasons being is that when you transfer something forma printed serial media like a comic book to a full motion picture-you have to keep in mind that the market is different for one thing and that not everyone has read the comic book so you have to try and condense everything but still keep it tangible if not dummed down for those who have no idea about half of it. another good example of shitty adaptations was spawn-i read that bad boy since day one (still have the first issue too) but I thought the movie sucked in comparison to the old comics. they changed the costume-they dummed down the backstory-(it took like five minutes to explain his death in the movie and almost a whole year in the comic book toe ven explain who the killer was) not to mention-they changed his killer. the only saving aspect of it was the clown-he was about as close to the comic book as anything in that film. Even the spidey films are different in a lot of ways form the comics. (I still like them though) I think if one goes to a movie based on a game or a comic book expecting it to be like the game or comic book-usualyl they'll be dissapointed. but if you go into it thinking about it as a movie and nothign else, sometimes you might enjoy it more.