Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment’sHellboyreboot is going to miss the 25th anniversary ofMike Mignola’s Dark Horse Comics creation by about a year, but the good news is that this new take on Anung un Rama will arrive early in 2019.Stranger ThingsstarDavid Harbourtakes on the title role inNeil Marshall’s film, which also starsMilla Jovovich,Ian McShane, andDaniel Dae Kim.
AsTHRreports,Hellboywill arrive June 26, 2025. Currently, that puts the film in direct competition with Fox’s sci-fi/adventure flickAd AstrastarringBrad Pitt,Donald SutherlandandTommy Lee Jones, directed byJames Gray; and Paramount’s curious comedy,What Men Want, fronted byTaraji P. Henson. Those films will all be followed up by the highly anticipatedGlassfrom Blumhouse and Universal the very next week, so we’ll see which one has the best legs and/or which film(s) shifts schedules.
Here’s Harbour’s take on the character and how the reboot will approach his story:
“There are things that I’m gonna do that are different. Hellboy is the same character from the comics and from what Ron did, there are certain things that are the same thing, but I do think that—I don’t know, there’s a different approach because I sort of highlight different things, I think, than Ron does. Ron sort of embraces this machismo in himself and in Hellboy, and I really like it and it’s super fun and it’s a super fun performance, but I think Hellboy has a certain psycho dynamic where occasionally he has to prove that he’s the lion, has to roar, and I think he struggles with his own masculinity. But I don’t think he needs that as much as maybe those other movies. I have a bit of a different take on his capability or his slickness. I sort of think that for me he’s a little less skilled at constructing that persona.”
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