If there was any justice in the world, Ron Perlman and Guillermo del Toro would have been given the opportunity to complete their widely-acclaimed Hellboy trilogy, especially when we keep getting fed reboots instead.
The 2004 original and sequel The Golden Army may not have been box office monsters on a similar scale to many other comic book adaptations, but they both turned a decent enough profit and drew plenty of acclaim from critics and audiences. However, when the threequel wouldn’t come together, David Harbour ended up headlining a reboot that yielded disaster on every level, not to mention an apology from the Stranger Things star.
Apparently learning nothing, though, reboot of the reboot Hellboy: The Crooked Man recently wrapped filming with Jack Kesy in the lead, something Perlman doesn’t even seem to want to think about. When asked about the project in an interview with ComicBook, he instead decided to shine a light on his own tenure, which was definitely the right call.
“I was very happy with the version that Guillermo and I involved ourselves with. I thought we killed it, we knocked it out of the park. What happens with the character and the franchise on the periphery of any of that is none of my business. I prefer to just dwell in the feeling that I continue to have having played him and having played him for one of the great directors.”
No matter what happens with The Crooked Man, we can all agree that there’s only ever going to be one big screen Hellboy, and his name is Ron Perlman.
