The Hell? There's Gonna Be a Hellboy TV Series?
Posted at 3:24 PM Sep 04, 2008
You might have seen the Variety article getting passed around the nerdocube about how director Guillermo del Toro's going to be busy until 2017, what with The Hobbit, and re-makes of Frankenstein and Slaughterhouse-Five, among others. But buried in the article is something which seems kind of newsworthy in and of itself:
Meanwhile, del Toro is awaiting word on whether Universal will embrace a follow-up to "Hellboy 2: The Golden Army." The big-budget film opened in the heat of summer and fell short of blockbuster status in the U.S. but has performed well overseas.
"I think they’ll decide when the last euro hits the piggybank," del Toro said. "We laid the groundwork to have a magnificent third act. I’d like to return to an action franchise with 60-year-old actor Ron Perlman, because he’ll be scratching at that age when I get to it."
Langley said the studio is interested and may work with del Toro to add a TV series and online segments to broaden the following before making the series finale.
A Hellboy TV series? Really? That would be awesome. Call me crazy, but I can't help but feel Hellboy is wasted on the movies—he's always going to be too unknown and too weird for mass audiences, but he'd be just right on the Sci-Fi Channel or USA or something. Plus, Mike Mignola's characters and the B.P.R.D. world are so great, they really deserve to be seen every week, as opposed to one two-hour movie every three or so years.
It's so weird how Variety just tossed this out there. Was this already known, and I was just drunk that week and missed it? Why didn't any of you bastards tell me? I blame you all.
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You should blame us all. But then again, maybe we all think you're so good at this geek blogging thing that nothing escapes your sight. So there.
A Hellboy TV show would be awesome--in theory. But the execution of it would be cheap-o, they'd never spend money on all the makeup, let alone the sets and SFX, and we'd be left with Hellboy being absent for most of the episode while human-looking Liz and Nameless BPRD Agent Who Also Doesn't Cost A Lot To Have On Camera traipse through Vancouver Set #19876 looking for Poorly CGI-ed Monster Of The Week.
Sigh.
Posted 09/04/2008 at 01:17:07 PMthere's a possibility it could not suck. just a possibility, but it's there. they'll have to perfect a lower-cost Red. it may not be something Sci-fi or basic cable has the money for, but HBO or a network could maybe pull it. i'd rather have a cable co. do the deed...no censors.
Posted 09/04/2008 at 03:17:08 PMYou've got to be joking me.
Sci-Fi or USA? Sci-Fi is for no name directors making shitty 'movie of the week' titles with tiny budgets. USA is now the place for lame 'comedy crime dramas' like 'Monk', 'Psych', and 'In Plain Sight'.
With a big name like Perlman and del Toro to add their support, along with the concept of a demon hunting demonoid, there is only 1 place this show would shine: HBO.
Get Daniel Knauf and Jack Bender from HBO's Carnivale to do this shows 'weirdness' factor and you've got gold.
Posted 09/04/2008 at 08:44:05 PMI think this may refer to an ongoing ANIMATED style series like the Direct to DVD movies they've already done. Cant really see them going the live-action route for this. I would love to see HB3,but at this rate I may be old and dead before they ever get around to it.....
Posted 09/04/2008 at 08:44:27 PMI completely agree about needing a larger budget to pull this IP off as a viable TV show, also would prefer the less episodes for more effort / quality per installment model pay cable channels tend towards. I would pick Showtime over HBO currently, though, due to HBO's alarming trend of dropping shows after a couple seasons over TV viewer-ship despite strong DVD rentals and sales, like Carnival, Deadwood, and Rome. Inversely, Showtime has backed shows like Dexter despite initially low viewer-ship, allowing the show to incubate an audience and build a money dropping fan base.
Posted 09/05/2008 at 03:27:29 PMnow that i have hopes, it's gonna be suckage if this turns out to be anime. hellboy's world works better as a series, i reckon - all those vignette-style exorcisms.
Posted 09/05/2008 at 09:23:08 PMA television series would be nice, and I would hope having done the production they did for the theater they would hold some of that accountable to be continued in a series. I liked the look and feel of it. Budgets are limiting and doing too little would anger their audience (I should hope they know that). It would have to be on cable, and it would nice to see it develop and unfold in the same style. Lots of potential. I would agree with it being on Showtime, too.
Posted 09/06/2008 at 05:40:08 PMqr kn o ji
Posted 09/10/2008 at 07:46:18 AMHas anyone here seen the "screw on head" tv pilot? it was animated using mignola's style of character design (instead of the "hellboy animated" style)and it looked pretty good, and had the same feel of the mignola's comics. a hellboy tv series might work if they animated it like that.
Posted 09/20/2008 at 05:01:04 PMI'd really like to see Hellboy3 sooner rather than later,as for tv series....if done correctly then yes!
Posted 01/08/2009 at 11:40:11 AMIf it goes the animated route wojld rather have the B.P.R.D. in the current style of animation used in the straight to dvd! But involving Johann,Roger along with the already seen Abe & Liz.
With the origin story of Roger as a feature length pilot then move on towards the Plague of frogs.
I watched the film for the first time today.
Posted 05/18/2009 at 10:26:53 PMAnd throughout, I was thinking, that this would be a cool TV series.
After watching, I googled "Hellboy TV Series" and this came up!
It's such a great idea.
A detective show, with demons.
With a big enough budget, this could be great!