The Crooked Man’ Trailer Brings Horror to the Movie Franchise

The Hellboy universe simply added a brand new creepy-crawlie to their listing of spooky issues to freak you out, a raccoon that skitters into your room when you sleep, and climbs INTO YOUR MOUTH thus possessing your physique with its trash panda spirit. Not less than, that’s what opens within the model new “Hellboy: The Crooked Man” trailer that dropped at San Diego Comedian-Con.

The brand-new Massive Purple, Jack Kesy, made his first public look because the newly rebooted Hellboy. Kesy joined castmates Jefferson White (“Yellowstone”), Adeline Rudolph (“Resident Evil”), director Brian Taylor and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, the gang tickeld the gang with a brand new have a look at the third iteration of this beloved monster.

The brand new movie is predicated off the beloved “Crooked Man” comedian storyline (additionally penned by Mignola). A e-book that’s 100% spooky has hell, which is precisely what the brand new crew needs. Selection is solely debuting the brand new Comedian-Con trailer that reveals each titular characters, the aforementioned cursed raccoon and a extremely, actually large snake. The movie is slated to be launched someday in 2024, the trailer stated “coming quickly.”

In an earlier interview with Selection, Mignola expressed his confidence in Taylor’s imaginative and prescient, “His intention is to make a horror film, in order that’ll be good. That’ll be fascinating.” Based mostly off his comedian “The Crooked Man,” Mignola co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Golden and director Taylor additionally did his personal “spin” on their work. Whereas the drafts diversified with every iteration, the R-rating stayed the identical. “It’s the primary Hellboy script that I learn and I went, ‘Oh, it’s a horror film,’ which is what I needed. Taylor doesn’t have a status as a horror film director. However, thus far, we’ve had two horror film administrators make Hellboy films and we’ve by no means gotten a horror film.”