Between the comic book movie genre not being quite as popular last decade and Guillermo del Toro having his own colorful ideas on what to do with the property, it does make some sense why the earlier Hellboy movies didn’t strive to be more direct adaptations.
But for the Hellboy fans out there who’ve been wanting a movie that more closely reflects a tale told on the printed page, it sounds like the reboot will deliver on that front.
While 2004’s Hellboy was loosely based on the story Seed of Destruction and 2008’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army was largely an original creation, the new Hellboy movie will be more of a direct adaptation of the arc that took place across Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt and The Storm and the Fury, which Mike Mignola wrote and Duncan Fegredo illustrated.