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Trailer : Hellboy

The first trailer for the “Hellboy” trailer – which I’m glad to report doesn’t encompass any sort of origin story – releasing next April, has been released.

David Harbour, who takes over the role of the horny hero from Ron Perlman, tells EW : “He’s really going through a late adolescence. It comes from this relationship with his father, who on the one hand claims to love him and on the other hand lies to him about certain things and wants him to be this weapon in this world. It’s the fundamental paradox: ‘How are you feeling today, my serial killer of your fellow beings?’ Like wait, you want me to be this brutal machine but then you care how I feel?”

Apparently comic-book fans of the emerald avenger will be happy with the flick – just ask the star of the thing…

“If you’re a real fan of the Hellboy comics, we’re very devoted to that universe,” Harbour says. “Baba Yaga’s in it, and there are almost frame-for-frame recreations of these scenes. I love that. It is like the comic come to life. There’s a lot of CGI, but the majority of what we’re doing is practical in a certain way. There are scenes in the movie where it’s me and Baba Yaga, and it’s two practical monsters coming together and having a scene together. She’s crazy, the thing they do with her is amazing. There’s other stuff that isn’t practical, but we always have elements of the practical. I think you see a clip of the giant fight, and at one point he picks up one of their giant axes, and that was practical. A lot of the stunts were practical, and those things give it real weight and gravity. You feel that it’s me picking up this thing, so it’s messy in a certain way.”

Neil Marshall’s “Hellboy” stab, starring Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Daniel Dae Kim, and Sasha Lane, unravels April 19, 2019.

Ben Affleck’s next is – appropriately enough – I Am Still Alive

Reginald VelJohnson back in Die Hard mode!