Hollywood loves a reboot.
With Guillermo Del Toro busy making Oscar-winning monster movies, Lionsgate have elected not to make a sequel to the director’s two Ron Perlman-starring Hellboy films and instead reboot the series.
Stranger Things actor David Harbour takes on the eponymous role this time around, with Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane and Sasha Lane all co-starring.
Directed by Neil Marshall, best known for helming the Game of Thrones episodes ”Blackwater” and “The Watchers on the Wall”, Hellboy has received a first trailer.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Harbour said of taking on the Hellboy role: “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?”
Hellboy reaches cinemas 12 April.
