UPDATE: Hellboy creator Mike Mignola has commented on the rumor, taking to Twitter to say:
As far as we know this is not true…
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Director Neil Marshall's HELLBOY reboot starring David Harbour punched its ungodly way into a theater near you this past spring and got terrible reviews. In fact, the reboot currently holds a 16% rating over on Rotten Tomatoes. But all is not lost as today we have word (a rumor) that Netflix is planning a new HELLBOY TV show. While no details are currently available to back up this claim, it is speculated that this will be another reboot and that Netflix wants the show to be "bloody and mature." Also, there's no word on if this will even be live-action as animation could be in the works.
I guess we'll see soon enough. We'll keep you updated if we hear anything further.
On top of that, Harbour talked a bit about why he thinks the recent HELLBOY reboot was flawed but "unfairly bludgeoned." He said:
We did our best, but there are so many voices that go into these things and they're not always going to work out. I did what I could do and I feel proud of what I did, but ultimately I'm not in control of a lot of those things. The problem that I have with comic book movies nowadays is that I think, and it's a result of the power of Marvel stuff, it's like chocolate, it's a flavor. So everybody goes chocolate is delicious and these guys make the best chocolate. So as you judge the movies, it's like, 'Well it's not as chocolatey as this, this does not taste like chocolate at all'. And I sort of want a world where there are more flavors than just comparisons to chocolate.
So in that way when Hellboy is viewed on the chocolate spectrum, it does very poorly. That being said, it also has major problems. I think as a rental or as a movie that you see on an airplane, I think you'd be like, 'Oh that was fun' because it's a fun movie, and I think it was unfairly bludgeoned as a result of these comparisons.
I haven't seen the reboot yet (but totally plan to) so at this time I cannot comment on the film's quality. That said, I'm already down with a Netflix reboot if for no other reason than more Hellboy is more Hellboy. Plain and simple. What do you think of a Netflix HELLBOY reboot? Let us know below!