We’ve all been eagerly awaiting the arrival of more news about the David Harbour starring, Neil Marshall helmed buff Hellboy movie since they debuted some footage to a lucky audience at New York Comic Con earlier this year. Well, today we have been treated the to the first wide release look at the new vision of Big Red, and let’s just say it’s very different from the R-Rated horror flick the Neil Marshall and co. had been promising.
We’d been told that the film was leaning into the horror elements but this trailer presents the film as far closer to a Deadpool or even Guardians of the Galaxy movie, as Hellboy plays like a cranky comedy character (very much like Ron Perlman’s version). What’s more, the cheery notes of Billy Idol’s Mony Mony throw us into what feels like a pretty par for the course comic book movie trailer. This will surely disappoint some fans who have been looking forward to the blood-soaked R-rated horror movie that the production have been talking about, but we can’t discount the success of Deadpool in shaping just what a modern day R-rated superhero movie looks like.
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