Great news!

plot details for Hellboy 2 (spoilers):
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24113

Del Toro ROCKS! I wish he was a little more active though. Looks like he will be busy for the next couple years but I have been waiting for something to come out for a while.

I can't wait.

I couldn't agree more. Very passionate and well-read. I always try to catch his panels at Comic-Con... very entertaining.

He is from Mexico? I somehow thought he was from Spain

He's Mexican.

new interview with Del Toro:
http://latinoreview.com/news.php?id=861

Taken from the interview: "Kroenen is back in a very small sort of cameo appearance"


Sweeeeeet!

http://movies.ign.com/articles/739/739228p1.html

Exclusive: Hellboy 2 Leads to Hellboy 3
Seeds for a third film planted in part two.
by Scott Collura

October 17, 2006 - Director Guillermo del Toro will likely be enjoying the Oscar limelight in early 2007, as his Pan's Labyrinth is expected to be a shoe-in for a Best Foreign Language Film nomination, but the filmmaker may be too busy to enjoy the accolades at that time. That's because production on his long-awaited sequel to Hellboy is currently scheduled to start shooting in January in Europe.

"We are in preproduction," del Toro tells IGN of the film, which many observers had come to believe would never get a greenlight. "Both with Hellboy 1 and Hellboy 2, they happened right at the moment when we said, 'They're not happening. It looks like we better move on.' And at that moment something happened that made them go ahead. We have Francisco Ruiz Velasco, Wayne Barlowe, TyRuben Ellingson, [and] Mike Mignola designing creatures right now, and we have the movie being budgeted in London and in Budapest. We hope to start shooting next year."

Most of the stars of the 2004 film will be back, including Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, and Doug Jones, though del Toro says that Jones might actually get to voice his Abe Sapien creature-sidekick this time out (David Hyde Pierce dubbed over Jones in the first film): "He'll get another chance and I am, let's say, 90% sure that he'll nail it. But I don't want to get the pressure off the guy yet!" Additionally, del Toro says that — in a rare show of Hollywood restraint — the sequel's budget will be around $70 million, which is very close to that of the first film.

"Universal came to us," the director recalls. "When they read the script and heard the number, they were interested. Because people saw that we gave a lot of value for the $66 million of Hellboy. We essentially had an O.K. theatrical run, nothing spectacular, but we did incredibly well on DVD, so the movie made its money and some. We did very good in ancillary markets. We did very good in replay on cable and so forth, and toys and this and that. And I think that Universal is interested in the fact that now they can have a franchise that they enjoy for a price they will never feel guilty about."

The question must be raised then: Does that mean a Hellboy 3 is in the works? Del Toro concedes that he has an idea of where he would take a third film in the series.

"I've talked to [Hellboy creator Mike] Mignola about the third one. He seemed to like [my idea], and that is that the way the love story would pay off in the third movie would be completely unexpected," hints del Toro. "I knew what I wanted to do on the first one, but I had no idea if we ever would get to do a second one. And now that we are I really am laying down the breadcrumbs that will lead you to a very, very — hopefully — powerful denouement of that loving couple."

Which isn't to say that Hellboy 2: The Golden Army will be a cliffhanger. Whether or not a third film in the series gets made will come down to how part two performs financially (after all, Universal had no problem killing another would-be franchise recently, Josh Whedon's Serenity, when it underperformed), and del Toro knows that better than anyone.

"The second one is self-contained and if we never get to do the third one there's only one element that people will have hanging where they will go, 'Oh Jesus, I wish they had done a third one.' But if not, it's fine," says del Toro, before adding with a grin, "If anyone listening has $80 million, we can assure you we can do a third one."

For an idea on where del Toro would like to take Hellboy in future installments, check out yesterday's "Exclusive: Hellboy vs. the Universal Monsters?"

http://movies.ign.com/articles/739/739203p1.html

Of course it might have faired better had Universal put more than a half-hearted effort in marketing the film. Which begs the question: how well will they market Hellboy 2: The Golden Army? Because I hope it doesn't suffer the same fate as Serenity.

Serenity also suffered from the fact that you had to watch an entire season of a show to not feel a little left out.

Hellboy on the other hand can be enjoyed with or without reading the comics.

Congrats to Del Toro for being able to pick up where he left off. He has a mouth of a sailor and a bear hug that will drain you of air.

I never watched one episode of Firefly and Serenity made perfect sense (and was emotionally resonant) to me.

As for Hellboy 2, bring it on!

LATEST NEWS

12/20/06
Fango spoke with director Guillermo del Toro recently, where he revealed that they are still issues with the budget, but the plan is to start casting in January and begin filming in May or June.

UPCOMINGHORRORMOVIES.com

Totally forgot about the first one until I saw this. It's been added to my queue.

'active'? he's got around three films including the Hellboy sequel in various states of production - the coolest of which IMO an adaptation of H.P Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness - bring that puppy on

I just saw his latest 'Pan's Labyrinth' with a post Q&A with Del Toro, and he's a hoot, ... and he cusses alot.

I'm guessing it did pretty well on DVD.

Damn good news. Never saw the theatrical version of the original, but I loved the extended cut.

Production To Begin By Late May

Ron Perlman, who stars in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, told L.A. Times that the film will start shooting around the end of May. "I'm already in the gym six days a week," he says. "The push-ups, the sit-ups, the stationary bike. Then, of course, there's the lifting of the pizza."

The actor also adds that he thinks del Toro is on a "creative hot streak" since making Pan's and that Hellboy 2 will have an epic quality while continuing to "explore all the things that are great about this character -- a superhero who is such an underachiever and such an adolescent."


COUNTINGDOWN.com

Fuckin' aye, man.

This is great news. I thought the first film was one of the best superhero films.

Loved Ron as HELLBOY !!!

"Hellboy" is one of those movies for me that gets better with each viewing. I didn't see it in the theater and bought the DVD as a blind purchase, and loved it. Watched it again about nine months later and thought "This is better than I remember". And have the same feeling every time I watch.

I agree. I am looking forward to this...I know this is probably an unpopular opinion, but it always seems like Del Torro's movies are just an inch away from being classics. I always like them a lot, but something always leaves me wanting a little bit more. I mean he is great at creating a world, but the stories always just seem to be not quite there. Hopefully this one knocks it out of the park.

YAYYY!!!!!