HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN
GIVING THEM HELL
IT’S NEW TERRITORY FOR HELLBOY IN THE CROOKED MAN
WORDS: ROBBIE DUNLOP
Jack Kesy as Hellboy, with Adeline Rudolph.
H'ELLBOY’S FOURTH LIVE-action outing treads new albeit familiar territory, being derived from The Crooked Man, a three-part miniseries published by Dark Horse Comics in 1998.
“It’s completely different to anything that’s been done with the character before,” director and co-scriptwriter Brian Taylor tells Red Alert, explaining that Hellboy creator Mike Mignola felt previous live-action movies hadn’t been entirely true to his vision.
“It meant a lot to Mike that I was striving for authenticity, that I was striving to be as true as possible to his comics,” he says. “I wanted to adapt it as closely and faithfully as possible in the way that you would a Stephen King or Clive Barker story. Just to put a lot of love and authenticity into it – make it feel like Mike’s Hellboy.