David Harbour has a tough act to follow. The Stranger Things star is about to lead a blockbuster in Neil Marshall’s Hellboy reboot – a fresh take on the Mike Mignola comic that looks set to lean further into the horror elements of the source material and team up Big Red with a bunch of new allies. Not only does the film have to hold up alongside the legacy of Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy movies (which hinted at a third film that never arrived), but Harbour himself has to differentiate his Hellboy from Ron Perlman’s incarnation. Speaking to Empire in the April 2019 issue – out now – Harbour talked about how he aims to put his own stamp on the rock-fisted demon.
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“[Perlman] does something quite extraordinary in those films that is very specific to him, and I did not want to imitate that in any way,” Harbour said. “In our movie Hellboy’s younger. He’s rougher. He’s much more of a teenager. He’s really struggling with the idea of whether or not he’s a good person.”
Read more about Hellboy and David Harbour’s journey to becoming Hollywood’s most unlikely new leading man in the Game Of Thrones* issue of *Empire – on newsstands now, and available to order online here{
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