Comic-Con News:  It has been over four years since the second Hellboy movie, and given the relatively mediocre box office success of the franchise there hasn’t been a lot of interest in a third film featuring the demonic do-gooder.  In fact until Comic-Con, it wasn’t even clear that director Guillermo Del Toro, who appears to be in demand constantly for a variety of projects, or star Ron Perlman, who had complained about going through the elaborate makeup process, were even interested in a third Hellboy movie that would tie up the loose ends from the first two films.

 

But at Comic-Con promoting his Pacific Rim robots vs. monsters movie, Del Toro didn’t hesitate to talk about a third Hellboy film, stating flatly: "I can say publicly now that we (Del Toro and Perlman) are together in wanting to do Hellboy 3."

 

Perlman, who had recently donned the Hellboy makeup to fulfill the wishes of an ailing young fan, who had requested a meeting with Hellboy, was definitely on-board, telling Entertainment Weekly: "The first two movies were set up to have this incredible resolve.  Everything that was done in both movies was leading up to this destiny, written in stone, of what Hellboy has been summoned to Earth to do.  To not do it, particularly in light of the scope that Guillermo is thinking of for the resolve, would be to my mind a little bit of a shame."

 

Of course with no studio on board yet, a Hellboy 3 movie is still far from the big screen.  Hellboy II: The Golden Army almost broke even theatrically, earning $160.4 million worldwide vs. a cost of $85 million.  That might be close enough to convince a studio that wants to get in on the comic book movie parade to gamble that with Hellboy, the third time will indeed be the charm.  If comic book movies continue to perform well at the box office, Hellboy 3’s chances should definitely improve.