He recently explained that his Hellboy will go hard for the R rating, and will shy away from too many special effects.
While the fact that the next Hellboy movie we’re gonna see won’t involve either Guillermo del Toro or Ron Perlman, new director Neil Marshall (Game of Thrones) is on the right track to keep fans of the comics happy.
But, also, when you go back the original material, it is kind of bloody, so I’m going to embrace that.
We’ve been granted permission to do it R-rated, which for me is just like taking the cuffs off.