Hellboy 3 Talk On!
It’s hard to believe, I know–we only just caught back up with Big Red at the theatres and already there’s talk of launching yet another Hellboy!
Apparently–and this is going to be interesting as all hell to devotees of the big red wonder–there was some difficulty in figuring out the script. Johann was not always going to be the new team member.
I know, huge bombshell, right? But even better is when you hear who Guillermo del Toro wanted INSTEAD of Johann. None other than vigilante / ghost / pulp fiction character Lobster Johnson.
No, I’m NOT on crack! Lobster Johnson! And they wanted him played by none other than the Chin himself, Bruce Campbell! Man, that would’ve been great! Sure, it’s no Evil Dead 4, but it’s an original role that isn’t a cameo, voice-over, video game or cartoon, so that is GOOD ENOUGH. It’s doubly ironic that this has actually, technically, already come to pass. As a voice-over. In a video game. Specifically, Hellboy: The Science of Evil, which has already been roundly condemned by pretty much everybody who can pound a keyboard and make words on a screen.
Of course, at this point, Hellboy 3 is something of a long shot as Guillermo del Toro is going to be pretty busy for the next like five years with The Hobbit, so the question of the day becomes, is there a Hellboy without Guillermo del Toro?
No way to tell for sure…so until then, enjoy the Hellboy trivia on Kwanzoo.
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That’s really weird to hear. You couldn’t make Lobster Johnson a part of the BPRD without making him into a completely different character.
Matt, the whole THING is weird. Studying through the Hellboy names and places and such suggests they’d almost have to time-travel to make LOBSTER JOHNSON part of things. Or worse yet, get his ghost involved. Unless I’m seriously misunderstanding things, but then, the article was right there, Del Toro’s on record.
Lobster Johnson is a weird character, like pretty much like everyone else in the Hellboy comics. They establish that he was a pulp hero in the 50s, and Hellboy mentions he heard a bunch of real-life mobsters turned up captured with a lobster claw burned into their heads, which the chief dismisses. Then he shows up in, I think, Germany to help Roger the Homunculus, and disappears again without any explanation. Who or what he is is pretty much left to the reader.