'We started with a draft by Mike and Chris. Taylor confirmed that the new script comes Mignola himself along with partner Christopher Golden.

Taylor Wants to Stick Close to Mignola's Original Work Mignola's comic pulls no punches with some truly disturbing scenes from cannibalistic witches to Tom's father's death, and even the Crooked Man himself whose true form is nothing short of nightmarish. Ferrell has returned to where he first became a witch in order to atone for his sins and teams up with Hellboy, as well as a local witch named Cora, to venture up the mountains to a church in The Crooked Man's domain. The Crooked Man comics saw Hellboy wander into 1950s Appalachia only to get pulled into a haunting case of witchcraft surrounding a man named Tom Ferrell and his deal with the local Devil, The Crooked Man.

RELATED: The Films of Guillermo del Toro Ranked From Worst to Best Speaking to his love of the franchise, he told Weintraub about his intentions of following the darker Crooked Man run of the comics, saying: While the Harbour-led reboot tried (and failed) to recapture that magic, Taylor wants to take his version in a new direction. It sadly never got the third film both del Toro and Perlman always hoped for, something made even more disappointing by 2008's Hellboy II: The Golden Army which showed the franchise was just coming into its own. Together, they created a pair of films that were able to mix sharp humor with supernatural elements and a working-class hero in a way that stood out among the superhero film crowd. Originally, the Mike Mignola-created Hellboy was brought into the limelight by beloved director Guillermo del Toro with help from Ron Perlman as the titular demonic savior. With the film already written, Collider's own Steve Weintraub got to sit down with Taylor for an exclusive interview to crack into this new take on Hellboy. It came a bit out of left field considering the series' stock is still reeling after the 2019 adaptation starring David Harbour and the title itself hearkened to something altogether different from its predecessors. Last week, we learned that a new live-action Hellboy reboot was in the works from Millennium Media and director Brian Taylor under the working title of Hellboy: The Crooked Man.

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