Ron Pearlman & David Harbour Talk Hellboy Reboot

Ron Pearlman & David Harbour Talk Hellboy Reboot

Pretty Cool Dinner Guests

By Franco Dionisio

With the news that Hellboy is getting a reboot in the form of Rise of The Blood Queen, actor Patton Oswald has hosted a dinner bringing Ron Pearlman and David Harbour together. Pearlman of course starred in the first two on-screen iterations of Mike Mignola's comic character as Big Red in Hellboy and Hellboy: Rise of The Golden Army. David Harbour will take on the role for the upcoming horror reboot and he's chatted a bit to yahoo about the role and shared a make-up test picture for the iconic Right Hand of Doom.

The summit dinner was a smashing success. Now, to launch my new pop duo, Hellboyz. @DavidKHarbour @perlmutations pic.twitter.com/nNkCycz2hD

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) 6 June 2017

“Not since Bill Clinton, Menachem Begin, and Anwar Sadat has there been such an epic summit yelding such a little result,” Perlman posted to Facebook. “Apparently Patton Oswalt aka balvenieboy thought it was a good idea to host David Harbour and yours truly for a detente dinner. The result: i gained 3 pounds and ruined my liver. Meanwhile, good luck kid! Signed, the babe.”

“Patton brokered a peace, it was incredible,” Harbour told Yahoo. “I had reached out to Ron because I’m a big fan of his. He’s a really sweet guy and we wanted to just talk shop, and I just thought Patton Oswalt would be the perfect chaperone in case Ron and I started to make out or we started dancing too close or if we started getting in a fistfight.”

“I would not be doing Hellboy if it wasn’t for ‘Stranger Things,’ no,” Harbour added. “I would not. A lot of people responded to it. It’s got a lot of elements — Hopper is a very complicated character and has a lot of levels. And he is heroic, but he’s messed up, and I think they want this for this Hellboy as well. I think the films did a certain thing, the comics do a certain thing. Hellboy is kind of a neurotic, messed-up individual who’s destined for a horrible fate. He’s destined to become the beast of the apocalypse. Whenever he shows up and does the right thing, people throw beers at him and show up with pitchforks and he still manages to do the right thing. I think it’s funny and it’s sweet and it’s weird, and hopefully I can bring that to it as well.”

Neil Marshall (The Descent, Game of Thrones) will helm the reboot. Production is set to begin in September 2017 with Millennium Films partnering producers Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin to reboot popular Dark Horse Comics' character

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