Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

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Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Directed by	Guillermo del Toro
Written by	Mike Mignola Guillermo Del Toro
Starring	Ron Perlman Doug Jones Selma Blair Jeffrey Tambor
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	August 1, 2008^[1]
Preceded by	Hellboy
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Hellboy 2: The Golden Army is a 2008 film directed by Guillermo del Toro. The film is a sequel to the 2004 Hellboy, also directed by del Toro. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army is written by Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola. Universal Pictures finances and distributes the film, which has a target release date for August 1, 2008.

1 Premise
2 Cast
3 Production
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Premise

In February 2007, Mignola described the story he had developed with del Toro as one that focused on folklore and fairy tales, rather than the more pulp elements of the first film:

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It's not Nazis, machines and mad scientists but the old gods and characters who have been kind of shoved out of our world. I kind of equate it to the whole American Indian situation. The Indians were shoved onto reservations. You had your old, wise Indians who said, "You know, this is the way it is. We can't fight anymore. We just have to accept our fate." You then have your Geronimo character saying, "Or we could just kill the White Man." That's kind of the situation we have in the film. We have our elf characters resigning to the way things are and then there's one saying, "Or we could take the world back." The main difference is - what if the Indians had a nuclear warhead? The elves have their equivalent of the weapon that is too terrible to use. What if this guy decided to use it?^[2]

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[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Ron Perlman	Hellboy
Selma Blair	Liz Sherman
Doug Jones	Abe Sapien
Jeffrey Tambor	Tom Manning

[edit] Production

In May 2004, the sequel to Hellboy entered development at Revolution Studios with the first film's writer-director Guillermo del Toro returning with producers Lawrence Gordon, Mike Richardson, and Lloyd Levin. The comic book creator of Hellboy, Mike Mignola, was reported to develop a story with del Toro for the sequel, with actor Ron Perlman to reprise the role of Hellboy.^[3] The following September, del Toro expressed interest in making Hellboy into a trilogy with Mignola, with the first sequel slated for a 2006 release.^[4]

In August 2006, with Hellboy 2 being orphaned by the now-defunct Revolution Studios, the studio Universal Pictures acquired the project to be slotted for a summer 2008 release. Production was slated to begin in April 2007 in Budapest and London.^[5] Del Toro, who had been in negotiations to film Halo, a film adaptation of the video game, instead chose to stay with Hellboy 2 for "artistic and personal reasons".^[6] In October 2006, del Toro shared his plan to recreate the classic versions of Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Wolf Man.^[7] The director also reiterated plans for a third Hellboy to create a trilogy.^[8]