Together, they travel back into the dark heart of the Appalachian mountains to confront the demon and see if Tom’s soul can be saved. The miniseries follows Hellboy in 1956, somewhere in the mountains of West Virginia, as he encounters Tom, a man who in his youth sold his soul to a backwoods demon known as the Crooked Man. Hellboy: The Crooked Manis a 3-issue miniseries that debuted in April 2011. Sources say the current working title for this new film adaptation is Hellboy: The Crooked Man, although it is unknown if that will be the official title and if The Crooked Man story is what the reboot will be based on.

Golden also reportedly did some uncredited rewrites on the 2019 reboot. Fans should note that Mignola and Golden created another series for Dark Horse comics titled Baltimore, which is part of their shared horror universe called the Outerverse. Golden famously wrote three canon Hellboy novels with Mignola’s approval. However, it is unknown if either of them contributed to the screenplay or if they are receiving credits for their past work on the character.

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and horror/fantasy author Christopher Golden will be receiving story credits on this new Hellboy reboot. More recently, Grant Morrison’s famed comic runs on Superman and Batman were cited as main inspirations for James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new DCU film slate for Warner Bros.

Taylor also wrote alongside comic legend Grant Morrison on the pilot for Peacock’s Brave New World, a dystopian sci-fi series led by Alden Ehrenreich, Jessica Brown Findlay, and Harry Lloyd. The duo would go on to direct and write the insane sequel Crank: High Voltage and 2009’s Gamer starring Gerald Butler.įollowing the release of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Brian Taylor has mostly worked in television as showrunner on Syfy’s Happy!, which follows an injured hitman (Christopher Meloni) who befriends his kidnapped daughter’s imaginary friend, a perky blue flying unicorn. The two long-time friends, credited as Neveldine/Taylor, united in the early 2000s and first burst onto the scene with the Jason Statham action flick Crank, proving that their high-adrenaline filmmaking style was one-of-a-kind. More notably, Brian Taylor co-directed Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, the 2011 sequel to Sony’s original film which saw Nicolas Cage return as the titular Rider, with fellow filmmaker Mark Neveldine. Taylor is no stranger to developing comic book properties, having co-written the screenplay for 2010’s Jonah Hex.

We have learned that, following the recent failure of the 2019 David Harbour-led Hellboy reboot, Millennium Media is looking to give the IP another shot and is actively developing a new live-action Hellboy film, one which has already been written with a director attached.īrian Taylor has been chosen to direct the new Hellboy film. There, they discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy’s past: the Crooked Man. The film will follow Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. UPDATED : Deadline has officially announced Hellboy: The Crooked Man with Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden revealed to actually be writing the film’s script.

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