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.
