Finally, the film was produced with the help of Columbia Pictures and Lawrence Gordon.

The pair had a clear vision for the film, taking inspiration from Ray Harryhausen and Jack Kirby in its presentation.

The Nu Boyana production is being produced in association with Campbell Grobman Film.Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola shopped around their idea for a Hellboy movie to multiple studios over the course of several years. Hellboy: The Crooked Man will be a Millennium Media presentation in association with Dark Horse Entertainment.

Brian Taylor is an expert across the board, and I couldn’t think of a better person to bring this story to life to show our audience this different and original Hellboy slate of films.” “This is the first in the series of films that will captivate audiences in familiar (and new) ways. “ The Crooked Man is a departure from all previous Hellboy films where Mike Mignola and the creator of the comics will finally shepherd an authentic version of his stories and characters in film form,” said Millennium Media’s President Jeffrey Greenstein who is at the EFM in Berlin talking to potential distributors about the project. In the comic, The Crooked Man was an eighteenth-century miser and war profiteer named Jeremiah Witkins who was hanged for his crimes yet returned from Hell as the region’s resident Devil.Īction specialists Millennium bought the rights to Hellboy in 2018 and the company is hoping this reboot can spawn a successful new series of movies after experiencing box office disappointment on the 2019 update starring David Harbour. There, they discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy’s past: the Crooked Man. The new film will see Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. Comic Hellboy: The Crooked Man debuted in July 2008 to correspond with the cinema release of Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

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