Hellboy fans may be shocked to hear the latest update regarding a potential sequel in the works with Guillermo del Toro . The franchise – which stars Ron Perlman as the titular red-horned hero – is an adaptation of Mike Mignola’s original comic book series. It has earned a legion of fans thanks to the 2004 original Hellboy , which won three Oscars, and 2008’s The Golden Army .
Both films were directed by del Toro. The franchise continued in 2019 with Hellboy , which began life as a sequel to The Golden Army , but ended up as a reboot after del Toro was not offered the full writer-director role he had been given on the previous two films. Perlman refused to return without the Spanish director’s involvement.
Instead Stranger Things star David Harbour stepped into the role, and the film received terrible reviews – garnering a low rating of 17 per cent on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. Since then, fans have been eager for a del Toro-directed sequel to Golden Army – but they will be disappointed to hear that one is unlikely to happen, according to Mignola. During a recent interview with Screen Rant , Mignola bluntly suggested that Hellboy 3 is probably off the cards because he and del Toro have “moved on in different directions”.
“Being able to look back now, I’m very happy about the time I spent with him,” he said of the Pan’s Labyrinth director. “We had some adventures, and I just think we’ve both moved on in different directions. “Whe.