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Jul 11, 2008 · With Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Alexander. A prince of the mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth. Hellboy and his team must fight to stop him from locating the all-powerful Golden Army.
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- Action, Adventure, Fantasy
- Guillermo del Toro
- 2008-07-11
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During Christmas 1955, a young Hellboy is told a bedtime story by his adoptive father, Trevor Bruttenholm, of an ancient war between humans and magical creatures. One day, the goblin blacksmith offer to Balor, king of the elves, to build him an indestructible mechanical army. Encouraged by his son Prince Nuada, Balor accepts. The Golden Army subseq...
Ron Perlman as Hellboy: An immensely powerful demon who works for the government organization Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.). Guillermo del Toro described the character's dil...Selma Blair as Liz Sherman: A pyrokineticmember of B.P.R.D. and Hellboy's girlfriend. Blair described her character as more engaging in the sequel, "In the first one she was afraid to take a step....John Alexander and James Dodd as Johann Krauss: Krauss is a German psychic whose ectoplasmic being is contained in a suit after a botched séance. Originally, filmmakers planned to create a computer...In May 2004, following the release of Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy the previous month, a sequel was announced by Revolution Studios with del Toro returning to direct and Ron Perlman reprising his lead role as the title character. The director sought to create a film trilogy with the first sequel anticipated for release in 2006. Revolution Studios p...
Eddy Arnold – "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"Takako Nishizaki and Jenő Jandó – "Violin Sonata No. 9"Travis – "All I Want to Do Is Rock"Poet in Process – "Why"Hellboy II: The Golden Army opened on July 11, 2008, in 3,204 theaters in the United States and Canada. The film ranked first at the box office, grossing an estimated $35.9 million over the weekend, outperforming the opening of its predecessor, which had opened with $23.2 million. The opening was the biggest of Guillermo del Toro's directing career...
Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes reported that 86% of critics gave the film positive reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10, based on 251 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Guillermo del Toro crafts a stellar comic book sequel, boasting visuals that are as imaginative as the characters are endearing." On Metacriticthe film has a weighted average score of 78 out of 100, based on 36 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three and...
Short story
Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins co-authored the short story, "Tasty Teeth", which was published in the 2004 anthology Hellboy: Odder Jobs by Dark Horse Comics. In the story, Hellboy encounters tooth fairies in a tomb in Romania, featuring elements that were later incorporated into the auction house sequence in the film.[citation needed]
Promotional comic
This story by Mike Mignola and Guillermo del Toro with art by Francisco Ruiz Velasco was published as a special promotion for the film by Dark Horse Comics in one-shot comic book Hellboy: The Golden Army(January 2008) with three variant covers: 1. Photo cover of Ron Perlman as Hellboy 2. Photo cover of Doug Jones as Abe Sapien 3. Photo cover of Selma Blair as Liz Sherman In his introduction film director del Toro affirms his and Mignola's admiration of Velasco's "clean, propulsive narrative,...
Art book
Hellboy II: The Art of the Movie (June 18, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59307-964-2) by Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola with art by Sergio Sandoval and Francisco Ruiz Velasco looks into the film's evolution, from early concept art and diary sketches to photos of the final props, sets, and includes: 1. Complete screenplay including a deleted scene illustrated with the original storyboards 2. Interviews and commentary from creator Mike Mignola and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
Cancelled sequel and spin-offs
Del Toro had expressed interest in a sequel, saying, "I think we would all come back to do a third Hellboy, if they can wait for me to get out of Middle-Earth, but we don't know. Ron may want to do it sooner, but I certainly know where we're going with the movie on the third one." On May 30, 2010, Guillermo del Toro dropped out of directing The Hobbit. In June 2010, Del Toro speculated that Hellboy IIImight happen after his next project, but said that the screenplay had yet to be written. On...
Reboots
About 2014, Mignola, writer Andrew Cosby, and the producers began work on the story for a new film. The project was initially intended as a sequel to del Toro's films, but Perlman was unwilling to star without del Toro involved. When Neil Marshall joined, it was decided that the new film would be a reboot. On May 8, 2017, it was announced that Millennium Films was in negotiations with producers Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin for a film with the working title Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen, wi...
Greenberger, Robert (June 15, 2008). Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Paperback). Novelization of the film. Dark Horse. ISBN 978-1-59307-954-3.Del Toro, Guillermo; Mignola, Mike; Sandoval, Sergio; Velasco, Francisco Ruis (June 6, 2008). Hellboy II: The Art of the Movie (Paperback). Dark Horse. ISBN 978-1-59307-964-2.Del Toro, Guillermo; Mignola, Mike; Sandoval, Sergio; Velasco, Francisco Ruis (December 29, 2008). The Monsters of Hellboy II (Paperback). Dark Horse. ISBN 978-1-59307-965-9.Hellboy II: The Golden Army at IMDbHellboy II: The Golden Army at AllMovieHellboy II: The Golden Army at Rotten Tomatoes- July 11, 2008
Nuada Silverlance is the Crown Prince of the Bethmoora clan (also known collectively with other magical races as the 'sons of the earth'), he is also the main antagonist in the second Hellboy film, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and the last warrior of the elves. He is the only son of the King...
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Jul 11, 2008 · Hellboy (Ron Perlman), his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz (Selma Blair), and aquatic empath, Abe Sapien (Doug Jones), face their biggest battle when an underworld prince (Luke Goss) plans to reclaim...
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Nuada breaks into the BPRD, steals the map to the Golden Army and abducts Nuala. He also leaves a psychic message to Abe stating that if they bring the 3rd crown piece to the Army's location, he will spare their lives and release Nuala. Nuada finishes by stabbing Hellboy with an enchanted spear.
