Can anybody post some still pics? Can't access it due to computer issues.
Well, The Movie better darned look lovecraftian! The Hellboy universe has a heaping helping of HPL flavoring. Plus Del Toro has been wanting to do At the Mountaiins of Madness for some time, so its influence should be felt in his other work.
Looks like John Myers as Rupert Evans is not coming back.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Release date(s); July 11, 2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 film directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is a sequel to 2004's Hellboy, also directed by Del Toro. Hellboy II: The Golden Army is written by Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola. Universal Pictures finances and distributes the film, which has a target release date for July 11, 2008.
Premise
In February 2007, Mignola described the story he had developed with del Toro as one that focused on
folklore and fairy tales, rather than the more pulp elements of the first film.
“ It's not Nazis, machines and mad scientists but the old gods and characters who have been kind of shoved out of our world. I kind of equate it to the whole American Indian situation. The Indians were shoved onto reservations. You had your old, wise Indians who said, "You know, this is the way it is. We can't fight anymore. We just have to accept our fate." You then have your Geronimo character saying, "Or we could just kill the White Man." That's kind of the situation we have in the film. We have our elf characters resigning to the way things are and then there's one saying, "Or we could take the world back." The main difference is - what if the Indians had a nuclear warhead? The elves have their equivalent of the weapon that is too terrible to use.
What if this guy decided to use it?”
Cast
Ron Perlman as; Hellboy
Selma Blair as; Liz Sherman
Doug Jones as; Abe Sapien, The Angel of Death, The Chamberlain, Wizard
Jeffrey Tambor as; Tom Manning
Luke Goss as; Prince Nuada
Anna Walton as; Princess Nuala
John Alexanderas; Johann Kraus
Thomas Kretschmann as; Johann Kraus (voice)
Roy Dotrice as; King Balor
Brian Steele as; Troll, Mr. Wink, Map Shop Owner and Fragglewump
Production
In May 2004, the sequel to Hellboy entered development at Revolution Studios with the first film's writer-director Guillermo del Toro returning with producers Lawrence Gordon, Mike Richardson, and Lloyd Levin. The comic book creator of Hellboy, Mike Mignola, was reported to develop a story with del Toro for the sequel, with actor Ron Perlman to reprise the role of Hellboy. The following September, del Toro expressed interest in making Hellboy into a trilogy with Mignola, with the first sequel slated for a 2006 release.
In August 2006, with Hellboy 2 being orphaned by the now-defunct Revolution Studios, the studio Universal Pictures acquired the project to be slotted for a summer 2008 release. Production was slated to begin in April 2007 in Budapest and London. del Toro, who had been in negotiations to film Halo, instead chose to stay with Hellboy 2 for "artistic and personal reasons." In October 2006, del Toro shared his plan to recreate the classic versions of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man. The director also reiterated plans for a third Hellboy to create a trilogy.
With the success of del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006), the director was able to fast-track production of the sequel to Hellboy. Guillero del Toro began filming Hellboy 2 in June 2007 in Budapest and will conclude in December 2007. The official trailer for Hellboy II will be available on Thursday, December 20th, at noon PST/3p.m. EST.
It might be that the two animated Hellboy features that followed, though not aired on the big screen, got enough positive attention that they saw there was enough interest in further Hellboy films (and DVD sales of the movie might've been good, I dunno).
the DVD sales for the first Hellboy were a bit over $50 million US. So all together I think they saw the combined profits as making a sequel worth it. And for that I thank them, the first was a good movie and this one looks even better.
