By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Sony Pictures.
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Though Guillermo del Toro has been hopping around
the world while receiving further praise for his upcoming film Pan's
Labyrinth, the director has already got his sites set on the
Hellboy sequel.
Hellboy 2 to Enter Production
Filmforce
has recently caught up to director Guillermo del Toro and got him to give
some new details on the current status of Hellboy II: The Golden
Army. It turns out that the film is farther along than we could
have hoped and is ready to enter production in January. As an added bonus,
del Toro even has an idea for a possible third installment ready to go.
"We are in preproduction," del Toro
tells IGN of the film, which many observers had come to believe would never
get a greenlight. "Both with Hellboy 1 and Hellboy 2, they happened
right at the moment when we said, 'They're not happening. It looks like
we better move on.' And at that moment something happened that made them
go ahead. We have Francisco Ruiz Velasco, Wayne Barlowe, TyRuben Ellingson,
[and] Mike Mignola designing creatures right now, and we have the movie
being budgeted in London and in Budapest. We hope to start shooting next
year."
The question must be raised then: Does that
mean a Hellboy 3 is in the works? Del Toro concedes that he has an idea
of where he would take a third film in the series.
For more on the possibility of Hellboy III and further
discussion on Hellboy II, head on over to Filmforce.
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