14 DAY TRIAL // It’s been 10 years since the first “Hellboy” movie came out, and 6 since the second, but fans are still to lose hope of seeing a threequel, preferably with Guillermo del Toro at the helm. As much as he’d love to make that dream come true for them, del Toro is already preparing them for the possibility of that never happening.
Even though, back in 2012, when he went to San Diego Comic-Con, del Toro offered fans new reason to hope by announcing that he was raising funds to make “Hellboy 3,” he’s now saying that the film will most likely never happen.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to, because he does. However, in Hollywood, the fate of a franchise is ruled on its odds of profitability and the powers that be have already decided that this one has none.
“Creatively, I would love to make it. Creatively,” del Toro said in a Reddit AMA over the weekend. “But it is proven almost impossible to finance. Not from MY side, but from the studio side. If I was a multimillionaire, I would finance it myself, but I spend all my money on rubber monsters.”
If he was a millionaire, he knows what “Hellboy 3” would have been all about: before all plans for the threequel were scrapped, he had come up with an idea for it and it would have been epic.
“The idea for it was to have Hellboy finally come to terms with the fact that his destiny, his inevitable destiny, is to become the beast of the Apocalypse, […] to be able to defend humanity, but at the same time he becomes a much darker being. It’s a very interesting ending to the series, but I don’t think it will happen,” del Toro says.
That last part of his statement is the real heartbreaker here.