Fans of the Hellboy franchise were disappointed when Guillermo del Toro squashed any rumors that he would be returning to direct another installment. The film franchise that began with the comic series in 1993 has developed a cult following. 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. The film version by del Toro was released in 2004 by Sony. According to THR
The movie made $60 million domestically (another $40 million internationally, asterisked by the fact 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.
While Guillermo del Toro won’t be involved in any kind of third installment a reboot is apparently in the works. 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. While Del Toro and Ron Perlman won’t be involved David Harbour, the Stranger Things star, is in talks to play Hellboy. If a deal is made, Millennium would become the third company to make a Hellboy movie in as many releases.
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