Hellboy 2: BIG Baby!

[Protozaius]

hey dont roll your eyes. .. i think Im the one who bought it ...

Hey Occulum... I really appreciate the fact that you did. You helped a fellow Freak board member out of a financial scrape. Gee... why is it that Sideshow Collectors always find themselves in financial trouble?

Despite the pose, the statue bears a stunning likenes to Ron Perlman. I think it sported the best likeness to the movie versionof Hellboy. I REALLY hated to see that red monkey go. I hope you gave it a good home

Thanks TOE for the link. I've got it now bookmarked... awaiting all of the latest news on the film... the first of many sequels.

 

[geto10]

I'd like to have that gun next to my Samaritan!

 

[Bonehead15]

It's my understanding that the Kroenen cameo is a rights issue with the studio that made the first film. I've yet to read an explanation of how the studio ended up with sequel rights to a character if they're letting the sequel to the whole picture go, but I guess that's show biz...the story changed direction because GDT couldn't get clearance to use the character.

That's not true at all.

Once Revolution Studios passed on the sequel, all the "movie" rights passed back to Mignola. Why would Revolution still own the rights to Kroenen but not HB, Abe, Broom, Rasputin, Liz, Manning...it just doesn't make sense. Mignola technically never signed any rights away to begin with. Revolution had the rights to the HB sequel as long as Mignola himself had final word on the film. That stipulation was written into his contract so that he could still have control over his characters.


Mignola owns sole rights on all his characters. There is no reason that Kroenen can't appear in the sequel if Mignola and GDT want him in it. Also remember that the Golden Army's basic plot was already written almost a year before Revolution passed on the sequel. The only "rumored" scene that Kroenen was to be in was a flashback scene where he attacks Broom some 20 years after WWII. That scene was scrapped to trim down the script which was already WAY too long by GDT's own admission.

 

[Gruff Old Bear]

You're probably right. I read it here, but it says Universal wouldn't authorize the cameo. Universal is handling the new film from Dark Horse. The original was a Columbia (Sony) release, so if anybody had bought remake rights it would have been Columbia, not Universal. See what happens when you believe a fansite?

 

[The Dwimmerlaik]

Looks good an i like the voice of Doug Jones as Abe Sapien, lets see what happen.

 

[Protozaius]

It's good that Doug Jones will play Abe in both body and voice... yet I'm still going to miss David Hyde Pierce's take on the character.

I guess I'm going to have to watch the Hellboy Animated movies a few more times to get use to the change.