{"id":5326,"date":"2004-04-06T17:55:03","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T00:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/04\/06\/real-hell.html"},"modified":"2004-04-06T17:55:03","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T00:55:03","slug":"real_hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/06\/real_hell.html","title":{"rendered":"Real <\/i>Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess we should be glad that Hellboy <\/i>wasn’t offered to Fox TV. The efforts by the studios to tinker with the Hellboy<\/i><\/a> story read like a classic example of Things Man Was Not Meant To Tinker With.<\/p>\n

“An executive said to me, ‘What about a regular actor who gets angry and turns into Hellboy?’ ” said del Toro, wrinkling his face in disgust. “I go, ‘That’s … not … very good.
\n“Then they would say, ‘What if you call him Hellboy and he comes from Hell and all that, but he looks like a guy?’ Then they would suggest things like, ‘Can he have a Hellmobile?’ ‘Can he have a dog? A pet dog that comes from hell and is red?’
\n[…] “It went through every permutation. I had studios where I would start a meeting, and they would say, ‘You’re not making him red are you?’ And I go, ‘Yeah, he’s red.’ ‘You’re not doing the tail are you?’ ‘Yes, I’m doing the tail.’ ‘You’re not doing the horns? ‘Yes, I’m doing the horns.’ “
\nHere was fear underlying those questions: What good is a movie star like The Rock, Nicolas Cage or Vin Diesel if he’s obscured under the heavy makeup and prosthetics necessary to recreate the comic-book version of Hellboy?
\n[…] “The thing I told studios again and again, and this is something that demonstrates how Hollywood thinks, I said to them, ‘If I told you Hellboy was a $30 million (computer-animated) character, you guys would be happy. But if I tell you this is the right actor, you’re not.’ What an obscene contradiction.”<\/p>\n

In some ways, making the story at all was Del Toro’s greatest achievement of all.<\/p>\n

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