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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.
The new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), the upcoming Weapons is assembling an impressive cast, with Josh Brolin (Dune 2) and Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) recently signing on. Deadline reports today that Alden Ehrenreich (Cocaine Bear) is the latest actor to join the cast of Cregger’s new movie.
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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