Last month, VCUarts hosted the creator of Hellboy, Mike Mignola, for a discussion with Communication Arts chair TyRuben Ellingson. Before his visit, RVA Mag was able to talk with Mike about his old friendship with TyRuben and the process of developing the Hellboy movies.
“Ty and I have been talking for years about getting together,” said Mignola. “Since I never pass through that way, the one excuse we could come up with for us getting together was ‘I’ll talk to your class.’ That sort of evolved into something else, as these things tend to do, but it was really an excuse to see him.”
“Hellboy has always been an uphill battle, getting those movies made,” he said. “[2008’s Hellboy II: The] Golden Army did not make… I think it turned a little bit of a profit. But none of it ever ended up in a place to make people jump and go ‘Oh boy, we’ve gotta make a sequel.’ So literally ever since The Golden Army, I’ve had the same producers I’ve had, trying to make a Hellboy film get off the ground.”
Read the full article in RVA Mag.
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