Last Updated on August 5, 2021

UPDATED! Thanks for the heads up Mr. G! Story has since been rectified.

Director Neil Marshall's HELLBOY reboot starring David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, and Ian McShane is all set to punch its ungodly way onto digitally and Blu-ray/DVD later this month (pre-order HERE). And today we have word that AVENGERS and 28 WEEKS LATER star Jeremy Renner could have been Agent Myers in Guillermo del Toro's big screen adaptation, but turned it down.

Renner says:

I was just reading the script and [thinking] like, 'I don't get this…' I just couldn't connect to it. I said, 'I can't find a way in (to this character), I don't know what I'd be doing,' so I had to say no.

He continues on to say:

There's zero regrets, zero. Most of the time it's like, 'Oh, I'm glad I didn't do it,' and it made sense to me. Not just Hellboy or whatever it was, and I'm not saying that it's a good or bad movie, it's not about that… I just wouldn't have fit there.

The recent reboot of the classic comic book character is rated R for "strong bloody violence and gore throughout and language" and is written by Andrew Cosby, Christopher Golden, Aron Coleite, and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.

The recent reboot finds Hellboy:

along with his team of paranormal researchers, trying to save the world from a medieval sorceress who wants to destroy humankind. 

Harbour's co-stars include Milla Jovovich as the villainous Nimue, Queen of Blood, Ian McShane as Hellboy's mentor Professor Broom, Sasha Lane as his love interest Alice Monaghan, Penelope Mitchell as the elder witch Ganeida, Daniel Dae Kim as Major Ben Daimio (who can turn into a jaguar), Sophie Okonedo as the seer Lady Hatton, Alistair Petrie as Lord Adam Glaren of the supernatural mystery investigating Osiris Club, and Brian Gleeson as the wizard Merlin. HELLBOY will be getting released digitally on July 9th ahead of home media July 23rd.

PRE-ORDER ON BLU-RAY HERE