>During an Instagram Live, Hellboy was one of the topics Harbour touched upon. This time, Harbour explained he believes Hellboy failed because fans cherished del Toro's films so much, and therefore rejected the reboot before it even got off the ground. Harbour's disappointment with the entire situation was very clear, though he did make sure to mention that it's "people's right" to feel differently about things. His entire comments are as follows:
>I think it failed before we began shooting because I think that people didn’t want us to make the movie and for some reason there was like a big… Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman created this iconic thing that we thought could be reinvented and then they certainly - the loudness of the internet was like, “We do not want you to touch this.” And then we made a movie that I think is fun and I think had its problems but was a fun movie and then people were just very very against it and that’s people’s right but I learned my lesson in a lot of different way.
I mean he’s not wrong, I’m one of those fans of the original and that’s one of the reasons why I didn’t see it. More than that though it just didn’t excite me; I don’t want a reboot when the first two movies did a great job introducing characters and building a world that grew familiar. There was no reason for this movie to be made other than the fact its producers saw an IP that hadn’t been touched in a decade and thought “hey, let’s get that guy from Stranger Things and paint him red!” Calling it a cash grab is a little harsh, because I know some people involved genuinely appreciate the Hellboy lore, but it is what it is.
Justin Morgan
Deltoro's shit. But the reboot was a bigger shit
Colton King
>our product failed because people who didn't want it continued not to want it What a sad story.
Lucas White
lol no
the movie tried to rush though ten years of plots at once. like the wild hunt could've been its own badass movie but here it was a five minute skit set to awful rock music
Evan Lewis
>the original The original was a comic
Tyler Ortiz
>joke >scene change >joke >things should be serious now >but also joke >scene change
