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Milla Jovovich Goes From Hero to Villain in the ‘Hellboy’ Reboot
Director Neil Marshall has found his Blood Queen and it’s the perfect choice.
After concluding Alice’s story in this year’s Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, Milla Jovovich is going from hero to villain in the Marshall-directed reboot Hellboy, Deadline reports.
Jovovich is the icing on the cake with David Harbour starring as Hellboy, the red-skinned creature originated by Ron Perlman in the Guillermo del Toro films. If you doubt his ability to take the cigar from Perlman, I advise you to revisit “Stranger Things” where he delivers a stellar performance.
Only adding more fuel to the fires of Hell is the recent casting of Ian McShane, who’s also set to play Professor Broom. McShane is a powerhouse of an actor who showed the world how good he is as the villain in HBO’s “Deadwood”. He’s also starred in John Wick: Chapter 2 and Showtime’s awesome “American Gods”.
Aron Coleite is working on the latest draft of a script by Andrew Cosby, Christopher Golden and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin and Mike Richardson are the producers. Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen is being executive produced by Christa Campbell, Lati Grobman, and Carl Hampe. Millennium Films and Lionsgate are making the film.
Marshall is now focusing on the reboot after coming off directing the pilot episode of “Lost In Space” for Netflix, with his producing partner Marc Helwig, who’s an executive producer of Hellboy. Based on the raw visual sensibilities he has shown in the films The Descent, Centurion, and Dog Soldiers as well as several memorable “Game of Thrones” episodes, Marshall is targeting an “R”-rating for this new adaptation.
Bada boom.
One of this summer’s most hotly anticipated new movies is A24 and Ti West’s MaXXXine, a follow-up to X and Pearl that brings Mia Goth’s title character into the 1980s.
With her past catching up to her, Maxine attempts to make it big as a superstar in Hollywood, 1985. While you wait, check out a new image below courtesy of USA Today this week.
Releasing in theaters on July 5, 2024, MaXXXine is rated “R” for…
“Strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.”
If you missed the official trailer, you can watch it right here.
Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine.
Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”
Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.
Will Maxine finally make it in Hollywood? Or will the demons of her past become her ultimate downfall? With the Night Stalker roaming free, we expect MaXXXine to get wild this summer.
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