A fiery Hellboy poster is here, giving us yet another glimpse at David Harbour in-character as Big Red himself. The result? He looks like Hellboy! Which is to say, he looks a lot like Ron Perlman, who previously played the character. I guess when it comes to the look of this character, there’s not a whole lot of room for interpretation. Check out the Hellboy poster below.
EW has the first official Hellboy trailer, and it’s about what you’d expect: brimming with fire, muscles and horns.
Hellboy famously files down his horns, but here those babies are on full display. Also on display: a goofy tagline – “Legendary AF.” If they really wanted to go silly, they could’ve easily used “It’s Lit” instead. The flames are right there, folks!
Hellboy reboots the character with Stranger Things‘ David Harbour in the role. The famous Harbour dad bod is gone, replaced by Hellboy’s very impressive pectorals.
I’m a tad conflicted about this endeavor. On one hand, I enjoy Harbour and think he’ll make a great Hellboy. On the other, it’s a shame that Guillermo del Toro, who directed the first two Hellboy films, never had a chance to complete a trilogy with Ron Perlman. The Descent and Game of Thrones filmmaker Neil Marshall is helming this new take, and while Marshall is a good director, he’s no del Toro. No one has seen any footage from this new film yet, though – the trailer will likely arrive any day now – so I can’t judge this too harshly.
At the very least, it’s clear Harbour took this part very seriously and put some deep thought into the approach. “He’s a creature that was meant to bring about the end of the world, and he just sort of wants to be a good guy,” the actor said previously. “He’s got that complexity to him. He’s also a monster who lives among human beings, so he’s in a sense fighting for human beings against his fellow monsters, and yet the humans hate him because they fear him and they think he’s weird looking and everything.”
Harbour added:
“There’s that question of, why am I fighting this battle? Just because of some sense of justice, or some sense of good? It’s a really interesting question that sort of is at the core of him, that he struggles with…He has a heart that’s really good and with a lot of this crusted-over stuff… It’s very Shakespearean. It’s demons and witches and stuff like that. But it has a similar core to a dude who’s trapped in horrible circumstances who’s just trying to be a good guy.”
Hellboy, starring David Harbour, Ian McShane, Daniel Dae Kim, and Sasha Lane, opens on April 12, 2019.
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