Ultimately, this will leave everyone happy, as fans of the del Toro and Perlman era can enjoy those films, while fans who felt the source material wasn’t honored very well will hopefully be able to enjoy the new version.
More importantly, David Harbour’s recipe for what we should expect out of the new Neil Marshall directed Hellboy proves that a reboot of the property isn’t merely a useless “reimagining” that ruins the source material.
D’s adventures will blaze its own path, rather than just retread the material put forth by the two films that have come before.
Rather, it sounds like this new version of the B.P.R.