Here’s some good news for fans of the “Hellboy” franchise. Series star Ron Perlman says he’s warming to the idea of a third installment and says that he thinks the series needs to be a trilogy.
And the actor also has a couple of ideas on where things could or should head in the third installment.
The only thing I can share with you is we have this demon who is a victim of this Oracle, which is not negotiable. He’s been summoned to the Earth for the destruction of mankind, and that’s non-negotiable,” Perlman say. “This whole notion that his nature, is the demon of destruction — against the way he’s been nurtured by his father, John Hurt’s character, to be kind and in the service of mankind. Those things are going to be in play in the third one.
“Then of course you have Liz pregnant with twins at the end of the second film,” he adds. “So you don’t know what those two offspring are going to be? Are they going to be more human? Are they going to be more demon? Are they going to be a combination of the two? And how is that going to play out, in terms of Hellboy’s destiny. Which I say again is non-negotiable. So that’s the backdrop for the third film. And everything will be resolved, all these open-ended questions will finally be resolved. I don’t know how, he didn’t give me those details. But that’s the backdrop for it.”
Director Guillermo del Toro has also expressed interest in revisiting the “Hellboy” universe.
Let’s just hope the powers that be will decide that this should happen sooner rather than later.
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