Millennium Media President Jeffrey Greenstein gave potential distributors this pitch (through Deadline):

“‘The Crooked Man’ is a departure from all earlier ‘Hellboy’ movies the place Mike Mignola and the creator of the comics will lastly shepherd an genuine model of his tales and characters in movie kind.”

You do not have to learn too far between the traces to grasp the sudden turnaround on this reboot. The 2019 “Hellboy” was a catastrophe, no two methods about it. Its makers, although, clearly wished it to spawn sequels, if not an entire cinematic universe. That is why it was loaded with sequel bait, losing helpful time teasing different characters from Mignola’s comics, like Abe Sapien and Lobster Johnson.

A sequel to the 2019 “Hellboy” is out of the query, given the crucial thrashing and poor field workplace returns. Plus, star David Harbour would not have fond recollections of the expertise. Nonetheless, Millennium, Darkish Horse, and Mignola nonetheless need a “Hellboy” media franchise, in order that they’re beginning over from scratch.

Greenstein believes that, “Brian Taylor is an professional throughout the board, and I could not consider a greater particular person to deliver this story to life to point out our viewers this completely different and unique Hellboy slate of movies.” I, nonetheless, see a director nowhere close to the identical league as Guillermo del Toro and even Neil Marshall.

Del Toro’s never-to-be-completed “Hellboy” trilogy took many liberties with Mignola’s supply materials — from an unique storyline within the second film, “The Golden Military,” to pairing Hellboy up with the pyro-kinetic Liz Sherman (Selma Blair). It has been speculated that for this reason Mignola now takes a extra energetic function in “Hellboy” variations. Certainly, the 2019 “Hellboy” was a careless mash-up of comedian tales he’d beforehand written.

“Hellboy” does need to be on the large display, however there’s such a factor as being too trustworthy to the supply materials.