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Release year: 2019

Storyline

Caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, Hellboy battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge.

Top credits

Directors

Neil Marshall

Writers

Cast

David Harbour — Hellboy
Milla Jovovich — Nimue, The Blood Queen
Ian McShane — Professor Broom
Sasha Lane — Alice Monaghan

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Did you know

• In mid 2012, Ron Perlman once again endured the 4-hour makeup routine required to transform him into Hellboy, to fulfill the Make-A-Wish request of a six-year-old boy named Zachary who had leukemia. Creature effects house Spectral Motion, who had worked on the two previous Hellboy films, applied Perlman's Hellboy makeup (and later, also made up Zachary as Hellboy as well), so that Zachary could spend the day hanging out with his favorite superhero. Guillermo del Toro was so touched by this event that it inspired him to re-start production on the shelved Hellboy 3. However, after several years without progress because del Toro was working on several other projects, the studio had approached Neil Marshall to helm the next film, and decided that it had to be a reboot to set it apart from del Toro's vision. Del Toro's Hellboy III was subsequently announced to be canceled, and this reboot's development started soon after.

• Mike Mignola takes a more direct involvement in the production of this film than he did on the Guillermo del Toro Hellboy films. According to him, since a new director would helm the reboot, the idea with this one was to downplay the superhero elements in the film, strip out the "del Toro-isms", and stay closer to the darker tone of the graphic novels, making it a much more horror-oriented entry into the franchise.

• This film adapts the England-set Hellboy stories "The Wild Hunt" and "The Storm and the Fury", where Nimue becomes the Queen of Blood and Hellboy in his battle with her brings about the apocalypse.