It looks like Guillermo del Toro may take a page from the Marvel play book (odd statement, I know) for his return to the Hellboy universe. Sounding much like Marvel's plans to "reinvent" the Incredible Hulk story with their new film rather than create a true sequel, del Toro recently said he doesn't plan to go the sequel route, either. Invoking a famous cult classic, his precise words were: "My idea with Hellboy 2 is that it's almost a rephrasing. You don't re-enact the franchise you reinvent it. My favorite movies are like Evil Dead 2 which is basically reinventing Evil Dead 1, so I would hope Hellboy 2 could be taking what I learned from Hellboy 1 and reinventing it."I continue to be slightly baffled by this "reinventing" only a few years after the original, but, like with the Hulk franchise, I think I'm quite fine with the idea. Honestly, with Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola in control -- not to mention the excellent returning cast -- I would be absolutely astonished if this movie was anything short of fantastic.
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9-27-2006 @ 8:38AM
Alex said...
This is a good thing, I think. Evil Dead 2 was better than the original, as was Desperado more fun than El Mariachi. And since I've always been very lukewarm about Hellboy, though I love del Toro, I can only imagine that a reinvention of it by him can only make it better.
The first step ought to be getting rid of that monolith they call Selma Blair.
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9-27-2006 @ 9:22AM
Donall Crehan said...
Hmmm. All this re-invention chat is very iffy. In the cases of both Hellboy and Hulk, haven't the second films moved on to different studios? This smack an awful lot to me of the sequel rights being held by studio and a and not being covered by the turnaround or whatever deal moved the rights to studio b, resulting in studio b having to call the film something other than a sequel. Poxy if you ask me.
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9-28-2006 @ 12:49AM
cathie said...
the whole re-invention talk can be questionable. But when it's the same director dealing with something he's worked on before i think it's likely things will take a better path. The Evil Dead is a perfect example, Raimi learned a lot from ED and went on to improve with ED2 and then he kept going with AOD. If it's Guillermo re-inventing his own movie then I have complete faith in the project. I wil say that I doubt the decisions about the Hulk, I didn't hate the original flick, I think they could still work with in that world with Bana returning, but I think it just shows they don't have enough faith in their hero.
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