Hellboy: Mike Mignola Wants Movie to Kick Off a Shared Universe

Hellboycreator Mike Mignola hop that the upcoming reboot spawn a cinematic macrocosm . After class of campaigning , Guillermo del Toro confirm originally this yr thatHellboy IIIsimply was n’t going to happen . rather , Millennium Films has resolve to push forward with an R - rated reboot . The upcomingHellboyreboot ( no longer subtitledRise of the Blood Queen ) is being directed by Neil Marshall ( The Descent ) , withStranger Thingsstar David Harbourtaking over for Ron Perlman as the eponymous part .

TheHellboyreboot , which is being write by Andrew Cosby and Christopher Golden , aims to take the comic book series in a different direction than del Toro had done , hence the planned R - rating versus continue with the previous PG-13 rating . Cosby has previously say that they will be utilizing the rating , as well as the reboot as a whole , to incorporatemuch darker and more sick themesthan del Toro ’s pic -HellboyandHellboy II : The Golden Army- had , whereas Mignola skip to use the reboot to make a shared universe .

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In an interview withThe Verge , Mignola discourse theHellboycomics as well as the upcoming R - rated reboot , which he says will be a loose adaptation of one of his graphic novel . moreover , he tell he trust to introduce various component from the comics into the movie so that it could potentially launch its own cinematic universe .

" Yeah . It ’s a very sluttish version of one of the Hellboy graphic novel . When you have more books out there , you have a lot more to sift through . you could look around at how big the human race is , and borrow opus from here and there . You want to trade a larger humankind , but you have to pick and take what goes in there . The challenge for us has been to not misplace mickle of the specific report , but propose the element of a large floor . My hope is that this introduces a slew of hooey that then thrive into a Hellboy Cinematic Universe . "

Along with superhero motion-picture show , cinematic universes are all the rage in Hollywood these days . Film studios have always bring out sequels to their movies , and have even had spin - offs and prequels , but establishing an interlink existence of films occupy with character and plot line that eventually intersect is something that Marvel Studios popularized with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008 . Ever since then , virtually every major movie studio has tried to get their hands on their own shared universe : Warner Bros. with theDC Extended Universe , Universal with the Dark Universe , and Paramount with theTransformers Cinematic Universe .

Given thatHellboyalready has an talkative universe set up in the comics , it would n’t be too difficultto expatiate the reboot into more films , but doing so would require the movie to perform well enough at the box authority to rationalize preserve the enfranchisement . We ’ll just have to wait and see if that happens .