Hey folks, Harry here... I talked with Guillermo yesterday, he's very anxious to get shooting. I've never heard him more in love with a project and casting is continuing. Now, my understanding is that Abe Sapien will be one hundred percent CGI, but I'm sure there will be a lot of motion capture work in all that... and that's what this anonymous actor/mime/dancer will be doing. MEANWHILE... Maul here mentions that Mike Mignola said Guillermo "really likes how" Perlman looks in the HELLBOY make up. Well... Guillermo showed my Ron as HELLBOY from the first full body make-up work by Rick Baker's Cinovation company and man... MAN! I tell you, it is extraordinary. It is HELLBOY. There are no seams to the make up. Ron looks HUGE in the makeup. The arms and shoulders and chest and abdomen. Awesome. To describe the face of HELLBOY - take Ron Perlman's features and bleed them into the design of Mignola's original art. The make up catches the light and twists it into hard shadows which creat that hyper-KIRBY-esque look that Mignola imbued upon HELLBOY. Now there's a strange thing that happened to me as I looked at this make, but imagine Toshiro Mifune as a Demon thrown from Hell. I swear he feels like something out of a Kurosawa nightmare. I think more than anything, it's the way the hair looks, combined with the inherent warrior nobility upon HELLBOY's face. And the scar that runs under his left eye at a 70 degree angle across the cheek... well it just gives him that... I've seen some shit, and I've beaten it back into the pit of the Earth, sort of look! Here's the tiny report from NYC, ta daaaa....
Hi Harry,
I met Mike Mignola today at the Big apple con in NYC and asked him about the Hellboy movie. All he had to say, other than stuff about the mechanical arm and the Baker make up, was that Abe Sapien was cast. He didn't remember the actors name but he said it was an actor/mime/dancer from LA. Sounds interesting.
He also mentioned that Guillermo really likes how Ron looks in make up, and that the tail will be digitally added in post production.
So that's all from NYC,
Hope it peeks your interest,
Maul731
