Saturday
28Jun2008
Guillermo del Toro Proud of 'Hellboy,' His Own Sloppy Appearance
Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 11:23PM 
It's hard not to get amped up for The Dark Knight,
but there's another misunderstood hero between now and then. OK...there's two:
Hancock and Hellboy. But we're going to focus on Hellboy.
The sequel to the 2004 flick, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, holds a
tremendous amount of potential. The original was kind of a surprise, and since
then, director
Guillermo del Toro has increased his status
dramatically by writing and directing Pan's Labyrinth and he has also been put
under a heavy duty microscope as the director of The Hobbit.
And to be sure, Hellboy has a certain set of
expectations, too. This isn't released in the quiet movie suburbs of early April
like the original. Oh no, the sequel is sandwiched between Will Smith and
Batman, and it's going up against a heavily-promoted 3D Journey to the Center
of the Earth remake. So del Toro has a lot riding on Hellboy, but
he's not letting his newly high profile go to his head.
He recently told the
Associated Press that he still dresses like a
slob and still drives a 2000 Chrysler, and del Toro has also had it with
Hollywood and the media putting pressure on people to change the way they look.
"We live in a world that's constantly trying to tell you
what (expletive) products to use to diminish your ugliness, or smelliness or the
unpleasantness", he said Thursday. "I say (expletive) them all, let us be
whatever we are, let us be free in our ugliness, fatiness, stretch markings,
whatever the (expletive) we are. Monsters can be that, monsters can represent
something else".
Here's the latest look at del Toro's monster, a brand
new trailer for Hellboy II.
Colin Boyd | Permalink | in Guillermo Del Toro, Hellboy, Sequels, Trailers | Print Article | Email Article | 2 Comments | Share Article
Reader Comments (2)
Thank you for this insightful article. I've been a story analyst for 20 years and have recently begun researching and (attempting) predicting box office for major motion pictures for a large film finance company. These are excellent observations.
What can you tell us about the JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH remake? Any "insider" bits?
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