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H spinoff ταινία του Hellboy που ακυρώθηκε λόγω reboot

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[dropcap]Τ[/dropcap]α franchise στο Χόλιγουντ έχουν αυξηθεί πολύ εδώ και μερικά χρόνια με πολλές ταινίες να κάνουν τόσο μεγάλη επιτυχία που όπως είναι λογικό αποκτούν και reboot, όπως συμβαίνει και στην περίπτωση του Hellboy.

Πριν λίγο καιρό με επίσημη ανάρτηση του στο Twitter, ο Guillermo Del Toro ανέφερε τα εξής: “Είμαι στην δυσάρεστη θέση να σας αναφέρω ότι μίλησα με όλες τις πλευρές και το sequel 100% δεν θα γίνει. Και αυτό είναι οριστικό, μιας και δεν πρόκειται στο μέλλον να αλλάξει κάτι.”

Ωστόσο πριν από το reboot που ανακοινώθηκε για το Hellboy, είχαμε και μια spinoff ταινία που ακυρώθηκε για να γίνει η… επανεκκίνηση του franchise. O σεναριογράφος των δυο ταινιών Peter Briggs μαζί με τον έτερο σεναριογράφο είχαν προγραμματίσει να κάνουν το “Hellboy: Silverlance”, βασισμένη στον χαρακτήρα Abe Sapien και με την συμμετοχή του Hellboy, σε μια προσέγγιση που θα έμοιαζε με… “Suicide Squad”. Ωστόσο με τα νέα που κυκλοφόρησαν, όλα πλέον ανήκουν στο παρελθόν.

Το Hellboy θα επιστρέψει με ακατάλληλο reboot και νέος πρωταγωνιστής θα είναι ο ηθοποιός του Stranger Things, David Harbour, σε μια ενδιαφέρουσα επιλογή, με τους Ron Perlman και Guillermo del Toro να μην έχουν καμία συμμετοχή.

Η υπόθεση για την πρώτη ταινία ήταν η εξής: Μια τελετή μαύρης μαγείας φέρνει στη Γη τον δαίμονα Hellboy, γεννημένο στις φωτιές της Κόλασης. Ο καλόκαρδος δόκτωρ Μπρουμ θα τον πάρει υπό την προστασία του και θα τον γνωρίσει σε μια ομάδα ανθρώπων, που ζουν απομονωμένοι εξαιτίας των υπερφυσικών τους ικανοτήτων. Ο πύρινος ήρωας θα συμμαχήσει μαζί τους για να πολεμήσουν τις δυνάμεις του Σκότους, που απειλούν την ανθρωπότητα.

H μακροσκελής δήλωση του Peter Briggs στο Facebook έγραφε τα εξής:

Okay, guys. My inbox is stuffed with messages from you all asking me about the Neil Marshall “Hellboy” reboot from Millennium announced yesterday, so I may as well own-up: While I’ve got nothing to do with the reboot, I HAVE been working with Universal Pictures on another “Hellboy” spinoff project since 2010.

Back in 2010, I was working out of an office at Weta Workshop in New Zealand, when I got a surprise call from Universal. (Kevin Misher at Universal had hired me to write “Hellboy” with Larry Gordon for Universal there back in 1996: the film was originally put into turnaround a year or so after Guillermo Del Toro came onboard around 1999, and then was picked up by Columbia and Revolution a few years later. The rest you know.)

Internally, Universal were keen to make a “Hellboy” spinoff based around the character of Prince Nuada from “Hellboy 2” (about which I had nothing to do with, although amusingly my then-girlfriend Tracey Wilson was the storyboard artist on the film), and asked if I was interested in writing it. I said I was, although there was the slight problem of Prince Nuada being…ah…um…slightly “dead” at the end of “Hellboy 2”. I also pushed a little bit that, if it came off, I’d really like to direct it and make it in New Zealand. Universal were agreeable and said we could discuss that at the appropriate time. I was working with Richard Taylor at Weta in New Zealand back then, and discussed the possibility of doing this with Weta with Richard.

I started working on an outline with my Los Angeles-based “Panzer 88” co-writer Aaron Mason while still in New Zealand. It was called “Hellboy: Silverlance”, and we solved the “Nuada Problem”. Although we never really discussed it as such it really was a “B.P.R.D.” movie. The aquatic Abe Sapien was the main character, and Hellboy still featured fairly prominently in it. I suppose you could liken it to a “Suicide Squad” situation: Batman was in there, but the story wasn’t really about him.

Aaron and myself turned it in. Universal really wanted to proceed with it, but after further discussions at the studio it was apparent a “Hellboy 3” was still on the cards for the studio and more of a priority, so “Silverlance” got back-burnered. I figured that was the end of that.

Five years later, 2015, I was in Sweden when I got another call from Universal. It was looking like “Hellboy 3” wasn’t now going to happen, so would Aaron and myself now be interested in further developing a reworked version of “Silverlance”? Larry Gordon would be involved. (Aside from “Hellboy”, I’d worked with Larry and Lloyd Levin twice before — on “Alien vs Predator” back in 1991, and then on an abortive pre-Stallone stab at “Judge Dredd” with Schwarzenegger and Tony Scott in 1992/1993.)

Hell, yes!

The one caveat Universal gave us was that the character of Hellboy himself now couldn’t be shown.

We reworked and expanded the project out. The story had a sort of “Highlander” structure to it. Moving into their new Bureau For Paranormal Research And Defense headquarters in Colorado, Abe is troubled still by his psychic connection with Princess Nuala from “Hellboy 2”, so researches the history of Nuala and Nuada. We would have seen Nuada’s connection to a rival fairy courtier who seeks control of the fairy kingdom (and Nuala’s hand in marriage), and engineers the machinations that cause Prince Nuada’s expulsion. We’d have seen Nuada in different timezones down the centuries, including his first meeting with Mister Wink in Spain during the Spanish Inquisition (Nuada saves Wink from a troupe of soldiers); and Nuada in Nazi Germany in World War 2 engineering a pact to keep various supernatural entities unharmed from the conflict. (We would have seen Nuada and Kroenen fighting in a “friendly” bout for a bunch of Project Ragnarok goons.) Doug Jones would have been playing twin characters of both Abe and a reprise of the Angel Of Death, with whom Prince Nuada strikes a bargain. Agent Myers from the first “Hellboy” film would have returned. The story reached a rousing action climax at the B.P.R.D. Colorado headquarters and used Rasputin’s summoning gauntlet from the first movie (and we did manage to sneak Hellboy in for a cameo in one scene!) If it had been successful, it would have been the first in a series of “From The Files Of The B.P.R.D.” projects.

Aaron and I turned in our retitled “Silverlance: From The Files Of The B.P.R.D.”, the end of 2015. Discussions continued with Universal into early 2016, when we had a conference call with Universal and Mike Richardson from Dark Horse Comics. I’ve been friendly with Mike for 20-some years, and we were asked politely to put a pin in the “Silverlance” project as they were keen to reboot a movie version of “Hellboy” with an all-new team. Universal were very happy with our reworked “Silverlance” and wanted to proceed with it, but now it was made clear we couldn’t use any of the characters created for “Hellboy 2”. Which, given that the story was all about Prince Nuada, was a bit of a bind. I suggested going back to the comics and instead working on an all-new “B.P.R.D.” storyline involving the nemesis character The Black Flame (whom I really loved from the comics.)

Things were quiet throughout 2016, but just before Christmas 2016 I was in Bath in England when we got the call from Universal to say that it looked like “Silverlance” was once more back on, but it was looking a little unclear. (This really surprised me, as I’d assumed after the early 2016 conversation the project was scuppered for good.) I kept in touch with Universal periodically into 2017. With the announcement of the Neil Marshall “Hellboy” reboot project yesterday, I think it’s safe to say “Silverlance” is now officially dead. As a fan of “Hellboy” for 25 years, I’m curious to see how the new Millennium project turns out.

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