Neil Marshall Says ‘Hellboy’ Reboot Will Embrace R-Rating, Go Easy On Digital Effects

It didn’t take long from Guillermo del Toro revealing earlier this year that “Hellboy 3” was dead for a reboot to be announced. Indeed, an R-rated take on the material helmed by Neil Marshall (“Game Of Thrones, “The Descent“) and starring David Harbour (“Stranger Things“) is in the works, and there are already promises that it will be darker and more gruesome than what we’ve seen before. And it’s a message that the director continues to hammer home.

Stopping by the Post Mortem Podcast, Marshall emphasized two things about the upcoming “Hellboy: Rise Of The Blood Queen” — it’s going to lean into its R-rating, and it won’t go crazy with the digital effects.

“We’ve been granted permission to do it R-rated, which for me is just like taking the cuffs off,” he explained. “It’s like, okay, so now we can just make the movie we want to make. Nobody’s going to stop us. So, that’s the main [difference]. And I’m sure, obviously, the success of things like ‘Deadpool‘ and ‘Logan‘ has not hurt that cause. But, also, when you go back the original material, it is kind of bloody, so I’m going to embrace that.”

“It’s definitely going to be as practical as we can possibly make it. I love to do stuff in camera whenever I possibly can, and use CG as the amazing tool that it is, to enhance or expand upon the world, but not to use it to replace reality, when you can do it real,” Marshall added.

So, these are all the kinds of things fans definitely want to hear, but we’ll see what the final product looks like the movie finally lands, which is expected to be next year. [via Bloody Disgusting]