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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on May 8, 2017 20:07:49 GMT -6
www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/hellboy-reboot-works-stranger-things-star-david-harbour-1001462'Hellboy' Reboot In the Works With 'Stranger Things' Star David Harbour Millennium is in negotiations with producers Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin for a new installment. Hellboy, the demonic comic book hero-turned- Guillermo del Toro film franchise, is poised to return to the big-screen, this time without the filmmaker at the helm. Millennium is in negotiations with producers Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin for a new installment that would reboot and relaunch the property. Mike Richardson of Dark Horse Entertainment is also producing. Neil Marshall, the horror director who broke out with The Descent and won raves for his work on Game of Thrones, is in talks to direct the project, which has a working title of Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen and has a script by Andrew Cosby, Christopher Golden and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. Del Toro is not involved nor is Ron Perlman, the actor who inhabited the red-skinned cigar-chomping devil in the two previous installments. Rather, David Harbour, the Stranger Things star, is in talks play Hellboy. If a deal makes, Millennium would become the third company to make a Hellboy movie in as many releases. Hellboy was created in 1993 by Mignola and became an indie comic hit as it told of a demon raised by a professor, working to fight supernatural evildoers for an organization called Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. Del Toro co-wrote and directed the first adaptation, which was made by Revolution Studios and released by Sony in 2004. The movie made $60 million domestic (another $40 internationally asterisked that this was the era before international box office dominated performance) on a budget of $66 million. The second movie was made by Universal with the same team – del Toro and Perlman – but its box office mojo was cut short when The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan and featuring Heath Ledger as the Joker, opened six days later. But both movies engendered strong cult followings and there were rumblings of a third installment. Last year del Toro, Dark Horse Entertainment, Levin and Gordon, the latter who controls the rights, explored their options. However, the budget was a stumbling block, with del Toro wanting a bigger canvas for his vision. In the end, the producers decided a reboot and relaunch was the more feasible route.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jul 6, 2017 7:19:48 GMT -6
www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lionsgate-talks-pick-up-hellboy-reboot-1018904Lionsgate in Talks to Pick Up 'Hellboy' Reboot David Harbour will star as the demonic creation of comic book author and artist Mike Mignola. The Hellboy reboot that will star Stranger Things’ David Harbour as the title character may have found a home. Lionsgate is in final negotiations to pick up the project, which is titled Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen and has Neil Marshall on board to direct, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin are producing, as is Mike Richardson of Dark Horse Entertainment. Hellboy is a unique franchise in that so far each installment has been released by a different studio. Adapting the works of comic creator Mike Mignola, the first movie was made by Revolution Studios and released by Sony in 2004. The sequel, Hellboy: The Golden Army, was made by Universal and released in 2008. Both movies were directed by Guillermo del Toro and starred Ron Perlman as a demon raised by a kind, and human, professor, working to fight supernatural evildoers for an organization called Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. Del Toro and Perlman tried to launch a third installment, but budgetary issues proved to be challenging and the producers decided to instead venture forward with a reboot. Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen is eyeing a fall shoot. Splash Report first reported the news.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Aug 2, 2017 9:28:11 GMT -6
www.cbr.com/hellboy-reboot-ian-mcshane/Hellboy Reboot Casts American Gods’ Ian McShane in Key Role The cast of the upcoming Hellboy reboot just got a little more divine. According to The Hollywood Reporter, American Gods star Ian McShane has joined the project — tentatively titled Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen — as Professor Broom, Hellboy’s adoptive father. The Hellboy reboot is currently aiming to start production in September. According to the report, the new movie will pit the title character against “a medieval sorceress who seeks to destroy humankind,” likely the eponymous “Blood Queen.” McShane has enjoyed a long career in film and television, up to and including American Gods. His past work includes John Wick and its sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Golden Compass, Lovejoy and Dallas. He has also appeared in Game of Thrones, American Horror Story, The West Wing and much, much more. In May, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola announced an R-rated reboot of the franchise. Dark Horse Entertainment’s Mike Richardson is on board to produce, and Andrew Cosby, Christopher Golden and Mignola have penned the script for the film. Recently, Mignola revealed that the reboot, one which will be R-rated and take the franchise in a darker direction, was actually first conceived to follow the two movies that director Guillermo del Toro did. However, when del Toro didn’t want to be part of the new story, Ron Perlman took himself off the table which paved the way for Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers) to take the director’s chair and for Harbour to step in as the lead. Directed by The Descent‘s Neil Marshall, the upcoming Hellboy reboot is written by Andrew Cosby, Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola and stars David Harbour in the title role. The film does not yet have a release date.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Aug 5, 2017 18:18:01 GMT -6
www.bleedingcool.com/2017/08/05/mignola-involvement-hellboy-reboot/Mike Mignola Will Have Minimal Direct Involvement In The Hellboy Reboot The upcoming Hellboy reboot has been a contentious topic since it was announced, and it will likely stay that way until we see the finished product. The movie is in pre-production now and filming is rumored to start next month. Original Hellboy creator Mike Mignola said in a new interview with The Verge that while he was heavily involved in pre-production now he’s taken a step back: I’m a weird kind of co-executive producer. I’m not actually sure what my title is, but unlike the del Toro movies, where I was active in pre-production and design, I’m not doing that this time around. When the decision was made to do another movie, I got involved, basically saying, ‘If you’re going to do that story, don’t do this, or that, change this, and that.’ I helped to steer it. Christopher Golden and I did write a couple of drafts of the screenplay and got it on track, and then the decision was made to do a reboot. I really just get questions about how things work, and while I’m not doing a lot, I’ve been talking with the creature-design guy and the makeup guy to get the look of Hellboy and his hand, and things like that.” It sounds like Mignola is willing to let his director Neil Marshall make his version of the movie without trying to backseat drive the production. It’s probably the best way to go about a reboot like this; one that is already going to leave so many fans divided. Marshall has a unique vision when it comes to his movies, and it’s probably best if he’s left to execute that vision. We’ll probably get a better movie that way. Hellboy (formerly Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen) will star David Harbor and Ian McShane. It currently has a 2018 release date. (Last Updated August 5, 2017 4:23 pm )
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Aug 9, 2017 0:24:41 GMT -6
deadline.com/2017/08/hellboy-milla-jovovich-blood-queen-villain-movie-reboot-david-harbour-neil-marshall-1202144967/ Milla Jovovich Title Villain In 'Hellboy: Rise Of The Blood Queen' EXCLUSIVE: Director Neil Marshall has found his Blood Queen. Milla Jovovich is in final talks to join the Marshall-directed reboot of Hellboy, sources said. The plan is for her to join Stranger Things‘ David Harbour (playing the red-skinned creature originated by Ron Perlman in the Guillermo del Toro films), and Ian McShane, who’s also set to play Professor Broom. Aron Coleite is working on the latest draft of a script by Andrew Cosby, Christopher Golden and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin and Mike Richardson are the producers. Millennium Films and Lionsgate are making the film. Christa Campbell and Lati Grobman are also producing through Campbell Grobman Films. Jovovich is no stranger to the sci-fi action genre, but she has almost exclusively worn the white hat in the Resident Evil films, The Fifth Element and Ultraviolet. She is repped by CAA and Untitled. Marshall is now focusing on the reboot after coming off directing the pilot episode of Lost In Space for Netflix, with his producing partner Marc Helwig, who’s an executive producer of Hellboy. Based on the raw visual sensibilities he has shown in the films The Descent, Centurion and Dog Soldiers as well as several memorable Game of Thrones episodes, Marshall has the chops for this R-rated film.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Aug 24, 2017 21:00:09 GMT -6
deadline.com/2017/08/hellboy-rise-of-the-blood-queen-ed-skrein-ben-daimio-mike-mignola-whitewashing-backlash-asian-american-hollywood-1202155153/‘Hellboy’ Casting Of Ed Skrein As Japanese Character Draws Whitewashing Backlash The latest casting of Ed Skrein in the upcoming Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen has raised a lot of eyebrows — specifically in the Asian American community. The British actor is set to play the role of Ben Daimio, who, in the Mike Mignola comic books, is a Japanese American whose heritage has a heavy influence on his character. Skrein took to Twitter to express his excitement in the role in the Hellboy reboot of an Asian character, whose grandmother was a Japanese Imperial assassin in World War II. True to Internet form, a backlash ignited and it wasn’t long until a flood of comments filled his feed. One commenter said, “You’re a talented actor; why would you take away a role from an Asian colleague?” Asian actor Simu Liu (Taken, Kim’s Convenience) chimed in saying “Hey Hollywood, how many box office flops does it take for you to learn how to cast properly? #hellboy #whitewashedout” while Stephanie Sheh, an actress who does voiceover work in anime, said “Here we go again. Why Hollywood do you keep forcing me to boycott your films. #whitewash #hellboy.” Amidst the backlash, Hellboy creator Mignola chimed in saying, “Thanks and happy you’ve signed on.” Lionsgate declined to comment about the casting when contacted by Deadline. There was less of a concern of dragging Skrein and more of focus on why something like this would happen again after Hollywood’s recent track record of casting white actors as Asian and Asian American characters — which hasn’t gone over to well. Most recently Netflix’s adaptation of the manga Death Note was under fire for whitewashing, using white actors as a replacement for characters of color. The original source material follows a Japanese teen named Light Yagami, but in the reboot, he is played by a white teen in Seattle named Light Turner, played by Nat Wolff. In addition, his love interest is named Mia Sutton who is played by Margaret Qualley. In the manga, her name is Misa Amane — who is also portrayed as Japanese. Previous to Death Note, there has been numerous amount of “whitewashing” of Asian roles that have lit a fire under the Asian American community. Emma Stone portrayed Allison Ng in Cameron Crowe’s Aloha. With a last name like “Ng” it is obvious that the character is Asian. Her heritage in the movie is revealed as one-quarter Hawaiian, with a half-Asian father. The casting of Tilda Swinton as “The Ancient One” in Doctor Strange was appreciated for its gender-swapping but was frowned upon because the character is traditionally Asian. Other “whitewashing” controversies that have been hovering over Hollywood include Scarlett Johansson in the starring role in the live-adaptation of Ghost in the Shell as the Major, who, in the original source material has the Japanese name Major Motoko Kusanagi. Matt Damon in The Great Wall was another source of controversy as well as the announcement of Black Sails actor Zach McGowan as the star of Ni’ihau, a film based on a true story set during WWII when Shigenori Nishikaichi, an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot, crash-landed his Zero on the eponymous Hawaiian island after participating in the attack on Pearl Harbor. McGowan will play Ben Kanahele, an island leader who saves Nishikaichi before learning his part in the attack. Kanahele is Pacific Islander and McGowan is of Jewish and Irish descent.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Aug 31, 2017 16:56:09 GMT -6
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