Ever since 2008’s Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, we, the fans, have been crying out for the Hellboy trilogy closer from Gulliermo Del Toro with Ron Perlman in the red suit.
It never happened.
We got two other Hellboy movies since, with Hellboy in 2019 putting Stranger Things’ David Harbour in the red and then in 2024, we got Hellboy: The Crooked Man starring Jack Kesy and I liked both, heck, I really liked The Crooked Man, but neither came close to Del Toro’s two movies and both were box-office tanks.
And now, at the ripe old age of 75, Ron Perlman is still saying he’d be happy to return to the role with the aim of modern effects to help him fight the forces of evil.
“I was asked to do the one with David Harbour. But the only Hellboy I’m interested in doing is Hellboy 3 — finishing the trilogy we started with Del Toro and the original crew,” Perlman says.
“It can’t be jobbed out. You know, call me in five years if we haven’t made Hellboy 3 yet and ask me if I’m ready at 80. And I’ll go, ‘Yeah, alright. As long as I’m covered in rubber, no one will know I’m pissing my pants.’”
Tidbit:
Guillermo Del Toro has confirmed that his Oscar nominated Frankenstein is getting an extended cut which is currently being worked on.
But the sad fact is that Perlman knows that the third movie is never going to happen now because, as with many things, the world and the people in it have moved on, though he still feels the fans deserve that final chapter. Speaking on the Joe Vulpis Podcast, Perlman said: “I thought we owed it to the fans. I still do.”
He said that Del Toro knew what the third movie was and the plan was in place, it just never was actioned: “[Del Toro] knew what the third movie was going to look like.”
Ron Perlman was offered last year’s Hellboy but is still hoping for a Del Toro return
“It would have been epic. That’s why it was a shame. And it turns out people really dug the two Hellboy movies. We didn’t make Marvel money.”
Del Toro’s Hellboy movies were head and shoulders above the majority of modern comic book movies, but sadly, as big as they were, they still only appealed to a smaller audience, and even when the two non-Perlman Hellboy movies went lower budget, the audience just wasn’t there for them. That said, I believe if by some miracle Del Toro and Perlman did reunite for a third movie, the audience would be there again.
Thoughts? I know you have them and I wanna hear ’em all.
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Source: IGN
Marc
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