"Hellboy" will be rebooted again - a new film is already in the works

After the failure of the Hellboy reboot in 2019, Millennium Media is hoping to give the franchise another shot. A new live-action film about an imp is already in active development, which will not be connected in any way with the previous ones. About it writes Discussing Film.

The film is set to be directed by Brian Taylor, who previously worked on Crank with Jason Statham and the Ghost Rider sequel with Nicolas Cage.

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and horror/fantasy writer Christopher Golden will be crediting this new reboot. However, it is not known whether any of them participated in the work on the script.

Sources note that the current working title of the film adaptation is Hellboy: The Crooked Man. Man), although it is not known if this will be the official name and if the reboot will be based on the story of Crooked person." The latter is an original comic that debuted in April 2011. He talks about Hellboy in 1956, somewhere in the mountains of West Virginia, when he meets Tom, a man who, in his youth, sold his soul to a demon from the wilderness known as the Crooked Man.

In April 2023, Millennium Media plans to start shooting the film in Bulgaria.

Guillermo del Toro's original Hellboy: Hero of Hell came out in 2004. Starring Ron Perlman. In 2008, there was a fairly successful sequel, subtitled The Golden Army. And in 2019, the story was restarted with David Harbor and Milla Jovovich, but the film failed at the box office.