Archive for the ‘Guillermo del Toro’ Category

Variety reported today that Hellboy 2 has been picked up by Universal Studios for a summer 2008 release.  Ron Pearlman will reprise his role as the big red one, with del Toro scripting.  Mike Mignola will co-produce.  Production should start in April in Budapest and London.

Via Variety (link)

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola has created the poster artwork for the Guillermo Del Toro film Pan’s Labyrinth. These were given out at the San Diego convention, but visitors of Del Toro’s site might be able to score one in the near future.

Via Del Toro Films (link)

The official Hellboy Animated Series website has launched. The desitination is the offical site for the animated series, which will debut on the Cartoon Network and DVD in February. Currently the site has wallpaper and buddy icon images for download as well as a brief synopsis on each of the two animated movies (Blood and Iron, and Sword of Storms). Looks like the main characters will be Hellboy (naturally), Abe Sapien, and Liz Sherman. The art style and preview trailer they have on the site look really good and the storylines should be well received.

If there is a downside to what they have done so far, it is not in the Mignola style like the forth coming Amazing Screw-on Head for the Sci Fi channel. Head over to the Hellboy Animated site and decide for yourself.
Via Hellboy Animated (link)

Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Guillermo del Toro is teaming up with Don Murphy’s Angry Films to bring the DC Comics superhero “Deadman” to life. The deal is still in negotiations and the search for a writer is underway. Deadman is the ghost of Boston Brand, a circus performer who was murdered during one of his performances. Brand was granted the power to enhabit the bodies of the living in order to find his killer, but along the way he is compelled to help those in need.

“(Deadman) has great supernatural elements and is one of the more off-kilter superheroes. What I like is that it has some of the canon of horror films but it has a quest and the heroics in the more traditional superhero roots. It’s a great combination that is not very common to superheroes.”

- del Toro via Hollywood Reporter

del Toro is at the San Diego Comic-Con this week to talk about Hellboy 2 and to promote his latest film Pan’s Labyrinth which will open December 29.