Hellboy 2 iscoming out on DVD November 11 , packed with peculiar features and back write up about how the effects were make . What ’s next for Red and the gang ? You ’ll be seeing them again in the mirthful books that launched the moving picture enfranchisement . This morning we chatted with Hellboy comic Bible creator Mike Mignola about the future of his badass fiend , and his coming old - school vampire movie project . Mignola take on with a jape that he had n’t really visualize the videodisc extras on Hellboy 2 yet , but that he ’s mad about them . “ There ’s a big documentary in it that I ’m curious to see , ” he said . “ I think I ’m in it ! ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_2Ulz9tSLw
We discussed the deviation between Mignola ’s Hellboy , he of the comic books , and Del Toro ’s Hellboy in the flick . While Mignola gave Del Toro a mickle of advice about how to treat Hellboy in the first flick , Del Toro moderately much withdraw over the persona in Hellboy 2 and he really became quite different from our beloved comical book Hellboy . For one matter , movie Hellboy is shacking up with firegirl Liz and having a lot of marital strife . Mignola said :
My character is much more of a ill-humoured older guy and the one in the cinema is a tike — he has a lack of maturity date . There ’s a set of “ I wish the young woman and she does n’t care me . ” You see that with Abe Sapien too . In the comic all that stuff happened off television camera . Hellboy ’s been around and had relationships and now he ’s a gruff guy apportion with braggart issues . One of the things Hollywood always needs is a girl . They look at that as where the account arc ’s get ta be . You ’re trying for as across-the-board an audience as potential , and you ask to humanize the persona . So the first thing you think is there ’s got ta be a love interest . I ’m sure the studio would have suggested that [ for Hellboy 2 ] if Del Toro had n’t intimate it .
While Del Toro controls the flick Hellboy , Mignola maintains restraint of the entire Hellboy macrocosm in the comic ledger from Dark Horse . There ’s the central Hellboy comic , which he writes and often illustrates . And then there are spinoff books like BPRD ( about the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense where Hellboy works ) , Abe Sapien ( the solo adventures of Hellboy ’s fishy friend ) , and Lobster Johnson ( a terrific , crazy sendup of thirty action adventure stories ) . Mignola feed us some soupcon about what ’s coming up in the Hellboyverse :
We ’re starting Lobster Johnson at year one , build up to gigantic craze that will alter the Earth . For Hellboy , we ’re in the middle of a 4 - book arc that will spay that character . I ’m start the show , so I can say that this character is n’t intend to last for a hundred year so he can sell underclothes for some company . He ’s going to change and it ’s not break to be just a change of costume . We can cut off a leg and it will stay gone .
clack to viewPlus , there ’s good news program for those of us who adore Mignola ’s non - Hellboy poppycock :
I ’m bulge out a square-toed occult detective serial set in the Hellboy world . There are also some non - Hellboy stories I ’ve been talking about doing . Maybe companions to The Amazing Screw - On Head .
By writing his prissy detective story , and repay to Screw - On Head , which shoot place during the Lincoln Administration in America , Mignola is returning to historical territory he wants to search more .
He enjoin :
I bonk the nineteenth century . I bed it visually , and as I ’m write the Victorian occult arts detective Quran – I ca n’t draw it , I do n’t have the time – but as I write it it ’s just made of scenes I bid I could draw . That ’s part of the future of Hellboy that I image – we may see some of that [ Victoriana ] .
at last , we require Mignola what he thought of the new adolescent angst vampire movie Twilight . He said :
My daughter is very excited about it , but I ’d rather not watch it . Twilight is too much the material reality , it ’s not my kind of lamia . I choose an old - schooltime lamia . I co - wrote an old - shcool vampire novel with Christopher Golden [ calledBaltimore , or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the lamia ] , and we ’ve been struggling with a concealment adaptation of it . We ’re trying to make an old school vampire moving picture . But the problem is that if nobody ’s made one in the last five years – nobody want to make one .
The movie is slated to come out in 2010 , withDavid “ Dark Knight ” Goyer as music director . Here ’s hop they can keep it onetime - school .
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