Hellboy and Mike Mignola fans finally got their first look at the next live-action adaptation coming later this year during a San Diego Comic-Con panel moderated by Coy Jandreau for Hellboy: The Crooked Man. The panel’s star-studded guests featured Hellboy himself, Jack Kesy (Deadpool 2), as well as Jefferson White (‘Yellowstone’), Adeline Rudolph (‘Resident Evil’), director Brian Taylor (Crank), and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola where they shared the official trailer for the film.
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During the panel, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola also shared his excitement for the upcoming film during a discussion on the rewards and challenges of turning a comic book into a feature film while noting a few things:
This is his favorite Hellboy story and he considers this to be the actual first horror film in the Hellboy franchise.
Mike Mignola then shared a tidbit of history where he reflected on how Hellboy was first teased at a San Diego Comic-Con in the 1990s, and he feels The Crooked Man panel has finally brought things full circle.
And if the panelists are to be believed, this new Hellboy adaptation promises to be the most comics-accurate depiction of Hellboy ever put on screen. The story follows our titular anti-hero, who gets paired with B.P.R.D. rookie Bobbie Jo Song only for the duo to become stranded by a train crash in Appalachia in the 1950s. Making their way to a quiet community nearby, they discover the denizens are being terrorized by a demonic entity, who also happens to have a sinister connection to Hellboy’s past.
Hellboy: The Crooked Man will be released this fall, with a current release date scheduled for September 2024 in theaters, from Ketchup Entertainment. A Tik Tok version of the trailer can be found here.
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