“Hellboy” creator Mike Mignola has taken to Instagram to confirm that production on the “Hellboy: The Crooked Man” film has wrapped.
Mignola congratulated the cast and crew, and his Dark Horse comics collaborator and co-writer Chris Golden for a work he says stays true to the “heart and soul” of the source material, which is also one of his personal favorite stories.
In the film, Hellboy (Jack Kesy) and a rookie BPRD agent are stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. There, they discover a small community haunted by witches and led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy’s past – the Crooked Man.
Said man is Jeremiah Witkins, an 18th-century miser and war profiteer hanged for his crimes yet returned from Hell as the region’s resident Devil.
Brian Taylor (“Crank”) directs the film, which will offer a smaller focus story than either the two beloved Guillermo del Toro-directed “Hellboy” features in 2004 and 2008 starring Ron Perlman, or the 2019 reboot helmed by Neil Marshall and starring David Harbour.
Jefferson White and Adeline Rudolph co-star whilst producers include Mike Richardson, Jeffrey Greenstein, Jonathan Yunger, Les Weldon, Rob Van Norden, Sam Schulte, and Yariv Lerner.
No release date for the new movie has yet been set.
Source: Instagram
