A Home For Hellboy
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Alert, alert! Hellboy 2 has financing. I repeat: Hellboy 2 has financing -- the movie will actually happen. Huzzah! Variety reported this morning that Universal has agreed to both finance and distribute the film, previously left homeless when Revolution Studios, which funded Hellboy, went out of business, and the company's business partner (it distributed the film) Columbia elected not to pick up the sequel. Though director Guillermo Del Toro implied that Paramount would fund the film, that turned out to be, well, wrong. In addition to the Universal news, Variety also officially confirmed the entirely unsurprising fact that Ron Perlman and Selma Blair will both be returning for the sequel, which is scheduled to go into production next April and is currently slated for a summer 2008 release. Good God that's a long way off -- can you guys sustain your excitement for that long?
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8-05-2006 @ 11:08AM
Peter said...
This is fabulous news. So many lesser movies of dubious quality(Scary movie et al) manage to get funding so it would be a crime for a Hellboy sequel to never see the light of day. The funny thing is one of the reasons that makes the movie so watchable, i.e. Hellboy not being your usual super hero because of his rather unusual origins, and the movies rather dark cult feel also means it doesn't fit into the mainstream of super hero movies.
As much as I like the Spiderman series and other movies of its ilk, there will always be a place for this type of super hero.
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