New Hellboy Comes To TV

Source: SciFi Wire

“Hellboy: Sword of Storms,” a new animated feature based on Mike Mignola’s graphic novel series, continues the comic-book and film series when it debuts Oct. 28 at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT on Cartoon Network’s Toonami programming block.

In the new film, a university professor opens a forbidden scroll and is possessed by the twin demons of thunder and lightning, who seek to return to the world to wake their brothers, the dragons. Hellboy (voiced by Ron Perlman), along with a folklore expert and a psychic, travels to Japan to investigate and finds the sword of storms, the only weapon that can defeat the demons.

In addition to Perlman, the new movie features the voices of several actors from the 2004 Guillermo del Toro-directed live-action Hellboy movie, including Selma Blair (Liz Sherman) and Doug Jones (Abe Sapien). Mike Mignola co-wrote the movie’s story. Phil Weinstein and Tad Stones direct the movie. Del Toro and Mignola are creative producers. Hellboy: Sword of Storms is produced by Film Roman, a Starz Media Company, and is distributed worldwide for television and on DVD/video by Starz Media, LLC.