Det var väl egentligen inget större fel på Guillermo del Toros Hellboy-filmer, men särskilt trogna serieförlagan var de väl dock inte. Visst fanns det enstaka partier som var direkt tagna från specifika seriealbum, men den övergripande estetiska designen på varelser och dylikt var ju mycket Guillermos design. Framförallt när det kommer till den andra filmen. Nu verkar det som att skaparen Mike Mignola kommer ha en mycket större kreativ frihet i och med den nya filmen som släpps i början av 2019. Mignola har varit med från första början, och regissören Neil Marshal är mån om att filmen ska hedra serietidningen. I en intervju med EW säger Mignola detta:
"It's funny, because my involvement has been very different than the Del Toro movies. The difference is I had known Del Toro for six years by the time we did the first movie. Neil I met a couple months before he worked on the movie. It was very different, but I have been involved ever since they said 'Hey we're gonna make another Hellboy movie, and we're gonna do this story.' I've bounced back and forth with them about how to adapt this particular Hellboy story.
At various times I've jumped in and been much more active in the screenplay than I ever was on the Del Toro movies. But I did nothing so far as design stuff on the movie. Guillermo wanted me as a concept artist, but on this movie, there were other concept artists. I came in and I looked at some stuff, but they were trying to do something so close to what's on the comics that they really leaned on what had been done by Duncan [Fegredo] and me in the comics."
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Vi på redaktionen ser mycket fram emot en ny Hellboy, framförallt om Mignola är inblandad.