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Welcome to Unfilmable.com's "Hellboy" news page. While Hellboy is not a Lovecraft adaptation, it has been described as very Lovecraftian by many of it's fans. Some of the early character sketches and production artwork have a strong Lovecraftian feel to them. Director Guillermo Del Toro is set to direct the straight Lovecraft adaptation "At the Mountains of Madness" after it's release. Please submit news and links here. Past news is archived below. Caution: This page contains spoilers! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ September 25: Another lively pic from Hellboy
Contributing Sources: Counting Down Remember, a few days back (see below), when I claimed the latest still from Hellboy was by far the coolest yet? I lied. Chew on this one to the right (above). If you need any amount of evidence of whether writer/director Guillermo del Toro is going to deliver a faithful comic book adaptation, I think you only need to look at this photo. Torn straight from the pages of Mike Mignola's book, this pic is dead-on. Love it. Hellboy slams into theaters in April of 2004. I'm sure from here on out we'll all be seeing a bevvy of incredible photos from the film, so I'll try to stop drooling all over the Corner. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/)
Contributing Sources: Cinescape & 'The NZ Natural' Perhaps one of the best stills to come from Guillermo del Toro's upcoming Hellboy film has appeared on CHUD's very own message boards giving us a better look at big red himself...sans a shirt. This pic comes courtesy of Cinescape. As the message board poster noted, this image has mostly likely been mirrored seeing as the hand Hellboy is holding up should bear the "Right Hand of Doom." And check out those tribal-like scars! A nice added touch that may or may not piss off the fans. They look damn fine to me, as does this pic! My favorite yet based on make-up detail. Hellboy is slated for release April 2, 2004 and stars Ron Perlman as the titular comic book hero, Doug Jones, Selma Blair, and John Hurt. (Thanks to http://www.creature-corner.com/) According to their official website,
Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro will be appearing at ManiaFest
this weekend at the Comics to Film panel on Sunday, and we all know
which Paranormal Investiagtor he'll be there to talk about! Check
out further information at the official site! (Thanks to http://www.countingdown.com/) Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro
has posted his weekly answers to the fans' questions over on the Hellsite
message boards, and here's a bit of what can be collected from this
week's news batch: Source: Hellsite Message Boards (Thanks to http://www.countingdown.com/) Source: Dark Horse ComicsFriday Dark Horse Comics has posted a first look at a new lunch box for the Hellboy movie. The lunch box features Ron Perlman as our favorite demon in a striking pose, exactly as he will appear at your local movieplex. The high-quality, full-color tin lunch box will depict elements from the production that are still under wraps, so they can only share the front panel for now. Check it out at the link above! (Thanks to http://www.superherohype.com/) From Not Your Average Joe's interview with Doug Jones: JL: Anything about the film you want to tell us that we don't know already? DJ: Hmmmmm. Well, I don't want
to give anything away, but I can tell you that all the bad-guy cast
is AMAZING, giving such stylized, yet very believable performances.
My good friend Brian Steele [the villain - Sammael] is the most brilliant
physical performer, and he gave his all for this role. And wait 'til
you see Ilsa, Grigory, and Kroenen! And I think we have the next heartthrob
on our hands with Rupert Evans playing young Agent Meyers. Source: NotYourAverageJoe's (Thanks to http://www.countingdown.com/) According to Newsarama, Free Comic Book Day 2004 will be held on July 3rd, to coincide with the opening of Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man 2. The date was decided upon by polling conducted on the Diamond Comic Distributors Retailer Services Area, and voted on by more than 1,300 retailers. Timing FCBD to Hellboy's April release captured 138 (or 10.24%) of the votes, but ultimately lost to the idea of timing FCBD to the release of Spider-Man 2, which received 681 (or 50.56%) of the votes. Hit the link below for the full article! Source: Newsarama (Thanks to http://www.countingdown.com/) From Countingdown.com: Attention Texans! According to their official site, 'Hellboy' director Guillermo del Toro will be making an appearance at the Wizard World Texas Convention, set for November 21st-23rd. He'll be about three months into post-production at that point, so it's probably safe to expect a trailer or some footage by then! Check out more info about the forthcoming con at the link below! Thanks to 'Nick W' for the heads up! Source: Wizard Universe (Thanks to http://www.countingdown.com/) From Wizard Magazine's (via Countingdown.com) interview with Selma Blair about 'Hellboy': Wizard: Describe the scene you've enjoyed filming the most so far. Blair: There's this scene that I shot with Abe Sapien where he's giving me advice, and his character is just so beautiful to look at. They've just done such an amazing job with him, and when he's in the water tank, it's just unreal. It's everything I thought a fantasy scene would be. Even though I'm just sitting there talking to him, it's really dreamlike. It was so simple and beautiful, and Abe is an amazing character. That was my favorite scene so far. Pick up the latest issue of Wizard Magazine for the full interview! (Thanks to http://www.countingdown.com/) Guillermo Del Toro answered some questions recently on the "Hellboy" official site's message boards about the comic movie. The site itself should be undergoing a facelift in the next few weeks, whilst the first trailer should debut in October with "something BIG" (Ed. Note: best guess is probably "Kill Bill"). 'Abe Sapien' body actor Doug Jones is about to be tested for the voice of the creature, if he doesn't work out the next option is likely "Frasier" star David Hyde-Pierce. (Thanks to http://www.darkhorizons.com/) 'J.R. Hellboy' alerted Superherohype.com that director Guillermo del Toro has been answering quite a few questions on the official Hellboy Message Board. Here's a few... This hasn't been mentioned yet, but it would be good to get people talking about it. Anyways on the offical hellboy movie message boards Del Toro just answered a ton of questions and said, 26) Do you have any control over the official movie site? Do you know when it will be updated, it seems they havn't updated it in a few months. Agreed. We will start a lot of activity comes SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER. Get ready!!! 27) Any idea when the first Hellboy trailer(s) are due to hit theatres and which movies they will be attached to? OCTOBER. To a BIG movie. So it looks like in September were going to get a site update with possibly some new images and in october a trailer. Now what big movie comes out in october. He also mentioned that the posters given out at the con were rush jobs and not final product. And del toro always answers the questions on the board if you wanna get some people talking. Another bit he revealed is that Doug Jones will give the voice of Abe Sapien a shot in the next two weeks. If that doesn't work out, he will likely turn to his first choice - "Frasier" star David Hyde-Pierce. There's many more questions answered at the link above! (Thanks to http://www.superherohype.com/)
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