While I think it’s safe to say most people loved our favorite hell-spawned demon turned superhero, it looks like we’ll have to be satisfied with just two theatrical releases. A third seemingly just isn’t in the cards.
In a recent interview, director Guillermo del Toro addressed the delay as to why he’s not completed the final film (and casts a gloomy cloud over its chances in the process). “I think that the first movie made its budget back, and a little bit of profit, but then it was very very big on video and DVD. The story repeated itself with the second already, it made its money back at the box office, but a small margin of profit in the release of the theatrical print, but was very very big on DVD and video. Sadly now from a business point of view all the studios know is that you don’t have that safety net of the DVD and video, so they view the project as dangerous….Creatively, I would love to make it. Creatively. But it is proven almost impossible to finance.” He says.
While we may never see the final adventure play out on the silver screen, it’s still fun to wonder what might have been. del Toro revealed that Hellboy’s future was destined to take a much darker turn, with the character being forced to finally “…come to terms with the fact that his destiny, his inevitable destiny, is to become the beast of the Apocalypse, and having him and Liz face the sort of, that part of his nature, and he has to do it, in order to be able to ironically vanquish the foe that he has to face in the 3rd film…at the same time he becomes a much darker being.”
We can guarantee you one thing however, if Hellboy 3 does ever go into production…CheatCC will bring you the very latest!