While Ron Perlman continues to make a public push for a third Hellboy adaptation, director Guillermo del Toro is bringing fans back to reality.
There’s been chatter for years, but the reality is, there will probably never be another adaptation of Mike Mignola’s popular comic series. Unless…
“The hard fact is that the movie’s going to need about $120 million and there’s nobody knocking down our doors to give it to us,” del Toro told The Daily Beast at the San Diego Comic-Con. “It’s a little beyond Kickstarter,” he laughed.
“It would be great to complete the trilogy,” he said, “But in a way I don’t see the world—the industry—supporting that idea.”
Some good news came of the conversation, though, as the site reports that Legendary told Del Toro they might throw down for Hellboy 3 if he makes his next film, the mech-kaiju sequel Pacific Rim 2, a hit.
While comic book adaptations are all the rage, Hellboy isn’t something fans are screaming for, although completing the trilogy would be welcomed by fans of the first two.
If you haven’t seen Hellboy since its release, I highly recommend checking it out again as it’s streaming on Netflix. Like most of del Toro’s films, it’s aged like fine wine and only gets better with each passing year.
The 2004 film introduced a demon (played by Perlman), raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, who grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.
