Well so far it doesn’t seem like the reboot of Hellboy has gone down as well as anyone was expecting. The movie has been frankly ripped apart by many movie critics and last I checked was sitting at 11% on Rotten Tomatoes. Our own Fantastic Mr. Fox Troilo (LRM Film Critic) who can normally see the positives in many movies, really did not think much of this at all, you can check his review in the related section below.
Now coming off a report by The Wrap, we may have some rumors of where this movie went wrong. According to the outlet, there were a lot of problems on set between director Neil Marshall and the movie’s producers. They also say that star David Harbour was refusing to do more shots for Marshall and walked off set, among many other reports of issues throughout.
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Lawrence Gordon and Lloyd Levin were the two producers named as those being in contention with Marshall and apparently fired his favorite cinematographer Sam McCurdy for doing what Marshall had asked him to. The report says that Gordon and Levin wanted to make sure Marshall understood who was really in charge of this movie’s production. Levin’s attorney sent an email to the outlet about this accusation.
“While my client will not comment on why Sam McCurdy was fired as that is a private matter, be advised that it was a group decision and it had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Mr. Levin supposedly sending any kind of ‘message’ to Neil Marshall.”
Whilst Marshall refused to comment the attorney actually accused Marshall of stoking up this story, saying the story seemed,
“to be shaping up as a puff-piece for Mr. Marshall while tarnishing ‘Hellboy’ and my client.”
The attorney actually makes comments on almost all of the reported problems on set, and goes into too many details to fully include in this piece, but suffice to say he denies all the accusations made about the production issues by the outlet.
Whoever was in charge, or whatever disputes occurred, it certainly doesn’t seem to have benefited the film. The movie opens tomorrow globally and whilst it was expected to rake in a modest $17-$20 million for the opening weekend, one wonders if those estimates will prove a high ball figure after the panning the movie has received amongst critics.
I guess it seems unlikely that a Hellboy franchise will spawn from this movie, one wonders if they may have just been better making Hellboy 3 after all.
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SOURCE: The Wrap
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