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Hey folks, Harry here... Just got back from New York, which went fantastic. BTW - check out John's Pizzeria... yumptious! Was all sorts of busy up there, but just now returning to normal... didn't sleep in the city that never sleeps, so when I got home, I did the unconcious thing, and woke up in the middle of the night... but you don't want to hear about that... You want to know what I'm doing talking about HELLBOY... Well, a SPYder sent the following photo and wondered about more HELLBOY info.
Well, the one-sheet for HELLBOY has been popping up all over the internet, but personally I wanted the red tweaked up a bit on the poster, as I felt it was a tad on the desaturated side of things.
Guillermo has been spending pretty much every waking hour on this sucker, and from the sound of his giddy voice, I'd say he's pretty much as happy as can be. The visual effects shots have been coming in and they've apparently making this thing seem more epic than it was just through the lens. That's saying something, because once you start seeing some of the sets that haven't been released yet... and you begin to get a grasp on the scope of this film... You'll be very happy. When I visited Guillermo out in Prague earlier this year, the set was a giant bridge that was being destroyed by... well, I won't tell, but watching ol stubby out racing the disentigrating bridge... it was something spectacular. The stunts, like that famous Indy riding the statue through the wall thing, were rigged for single attempts. Very dangerous stuff, but to see Hellboy, running and leaping as the bridge was being destroyed all around him... Amazing to watch... Amazing because this is the sort of thing you imagine all being done in computers these days, but here it was.
Then there was the scene of Liz in her bed as her powers go nuts and everything begins to burn around her... they had built the whole bed scene upside down so that the flames would look... otherworldly... then all the gas jets were lit and suddenly... suddenly I was looking through the monitor at something so insane it didn't look like it could be real. The flames burning about the bed, moving like liquid over the body of Selma Blair... like some sort of crazed CG effect, but not. This was what upside down fire does... Through Guillermo Navarro's cameras it became one of the most beautiful images I've seen captured live on set. Unfortunately I can't really talk about what I saw, as the action that was going on while I was on set was the VERY END OF THE MOVIE -- the final sequences (none of which have I spoilt here), and it isn't that I was asked not to talk about it... Just, in good conscience I wouldn't ruin the end of the film for you.
If you've read the numerous set reports that showed up around online... Folks like Nick at CHUD, well... they've nailed it. This is Guillermo's supreme work. On BLADE 2, the film was never entirely Guillermo's. It was Guillermo servicing a script by David Goyer under the confines of a Wesley Snipes / MARVEL franchise. Many noticed the lack of nuance in the characters, the lack of emotion that is usually very much in every frame of Guillermo's personal films like CRONOS and THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE. HELLBOY is the third Guillermo Del Toro movie. MIMIC and BLADE 2 were not entirely his, but HELLBOY... HELLBOY is the first time that Guillermo is getting the chance to just let his imagination run wild with everything the screen can do. He's got a "monster" as his central character, being the hero, he's always loved monsters as being. It has love and passion... not just between monsters and who they love, but Fathers and sons... The love between friendships, and the love between villains and their destinies. When you finally see HELLBOY, you'll understand that beneath all the fury of the images we're likely to see in the trailers... that this is very much Guillermo Del Toro and Mike Mignola's Fairy Tale come to life. I can't wait to see the trailer... I hear it's something amazing and should be attached to THE MISSING when it hits!
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YEAH... COOL DIRTY HARRY SHOT....
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That's a great image! Just one more reason to be psyched up about this flick! - n/a
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Can't wait for this movie. However, they're attaching the trailer to "The Missing"? Great now I'll have to see it. Does anyone else think that Tommy Lee Jones is being pigeon-holed here with this movie? It's just his character from "The Fugitive" and "U.S. Marshalls" looking like a real bad American Indian. Oh well, maybe Ron Howard will make it interesting.
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Aren't these the same pictures we've already seen? Shouldn't this movie be done by now? Feels like it's been in production for a year.
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Not sure if it was just the script or they reshot a new ending.
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Nov 12, 2003 7:51:40 AM CST
This is gonna be so cool i cannot wait... no not another second.
by theaquabatman
Full on eye-candy. Dat's it bring it on.
Go hellboy, I can feel the coolness from here. -
i stopped reading comics in 92
and i now have 5 kids and not the resources to buy all the comics i missed out on in all this time. so if anyone could give me any insight on this character it would be much appreciated. thanks -
During the waning years of WWII the Nazis tried to transport a demon from Hell to save the day, instead they got a little devil boy. Luckily the Allies were there to stop the Nazis and decided to raise Hellboy as a good guy. He became a member of BPRD a group that goes around investigating paranormal and supernatural phenomenon. Hellboy is now all grown up. He has a supporting cast including Fishman Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman, a woman who can create fire. It is a superhero comic with horror background. It has humor, heart, and violence. I reccommend going into a comic store and just purchasing the first trade Seed of Destruction. The film has a lot to do with this storyline, if you like it, get the other trades as well. Hellboy was created by Mike Mignola.
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Nov 12, 2003 8:35:06 AM CST
David Hyde Pierce is the voice of Abe Sabien, allegedly...
by frankdrebin
...according to ComingSoon.net. You know, Selma Blair could end up stealing the show here, because Liz is the only one with "super-powers" (the power to make Nazi s'mores). Hellboy just has a big hand (and a big gun, of course). And Abe just...swims?
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Great little film. Hellboy is gonna so rock. Can't wait for the DVD. Guillermo makes for one of teh best Director audio commentaries out there. Very entertaining and informative. M
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This is the film I am most anticipating next year. Hellboy is bar none one of the best comics on the stands today. If Mr del Toro manages to capture the spirit of the book (and I have faith that he can) this could catch a lot of people by surprise. But even if it doesn't, I'll just be glad to see it myself. And damn, "Mr. Boy" looks badass. They captured a lot of Mignola's style in the design. And that rocks the mfh.
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Nov 13, 2003 12:37:48 AM CST
Did they really have to give Hellboy a secondhand background?
by 007-11
Or maybe it's just on loan from the X-men. Looks good though.
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...In my heart,that this WILL BE the BSET comic book movie ever. Sorry X-MEN...and Spidey.
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Nov 13, 2003 1:42:14 AM CST
Every Pict of Hellboy ive seen looks Frikken cool as hell!!
by tallscott
THANK FUCKING GOD THEY DIDNT USE CGI FOR HELLBOY! Im sure there will be CGI in the movie but the make up for Hellboy is kick ass and captures the comic to a T. Thank god they didnt make him CGI..Use CGI only were needed I say..( Like Gollum there was no way around that )
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The more I see of Hellboy the more excited I get. It looks like being a fanboys wetdream!
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As soon as you see it...you'll be back here bitching and moaning, talking about how your childhood got raped...and how much you hate your own parents. You know this to be true.
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Cronos was great, The devil's Backbone was great and despite what some of you haters say...Blade 2 kicked ass. Guillermo knows his shit beeeatches!
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Oh man. Can't wait to see that movie, guy.
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The picture is a scan of the best Scifi/Horror magazine in France, the article about HellBoy is 12 pages long.
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...that sucks. It looks like shit.
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I saw the trailer for Hellboy last night. Fucking Crazy! I can't wait to see the movie.
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See, that's what the comic books are there for. If you have a problem with the fact that it's not your Hellboy, then read the books. It's not like Guillermo made the movie specifically for you, anyway, and it's certainly not like he'd give up his chance to make a Lovecraftian/Mignola horror film just because you want to see the bone structure of four-color Hellboy. Tell ya what? I can understand your argument if you're talking about computet animating Superman (because we all know from the Matrix how "deceptively real" that looks), but if it doesn't generally distract from the story itself, the alterations are your problem.
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The movie looks great, but I'd also love to see a Hellboy cartoon. Check out this AMAZING CGI animation of Hellboy:
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