So much hemming and hawing about whether or not we will get a final endcap to the BPRD crew. Hellboy 3 is one of those films that should have already happened by now. The film run began in 2004 with del Toro and starred Ron Perlman in the titular role and had a follow up, The Golden Army, in 2008 but it’s been nothing but speculation and vague finger pointing since then.
“I could actually see somebody like [Amazon CEO] Jeff [Bezos] going, ‘You guys need $120m to make Hellboy? I’m down.’ This is the reason I keep touting Hellboy 3 because I think there’s somebody out there that’s going to agree with me, that we need to finish this trilogy. I won’t answer that [who is holding it up], because it’ll make too many people uncomfortable, and I’ve already made people uncomfortable enough.
If you look at the numbers we did, we’re not a blockbuster – we’re not Iron Man, we’re not the Marvel movies, we’re not one of these movies that made half a billion dollars worldwide. That’s a mandate. We don’t have a mandate to do Hellboy 3. All we have is a modest amount of enthusiasm and that’s just not enough in today’s marketplace. That’s not the answer [I was referring to before] but we’ll use that for now – as a placeholder – until the real thing comes along!”
That obviously feels like there is a particular person or peoples who are holding up any progress for the effort and they sound strong enough to prevent it from going forward, but that said, it has been a good week for studios lightening up the internal gridlock so here’s hoping we might get to see Red aim the Good Samaritan at our hearts with a final Hellboy flick.
