Originally published August 1, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
Back in May it was announced that Stranger Things star David Harbour is set to take on the role of Hellboy for the R-rated big screen reboot Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen, and during an interview with THR at the San Diego Comic-Con, Harbour has been chatting about the heroic qualities of the character.
“I really do think those Mike Mignola Hellboy comics are so beautiful and he’s such a hero for America that we live in today,” said Harbour. “I definitely think Hellboy is an antihero. He was kind of born into it. It wasn’t something like Batman where he chooses to go and fight crime. He was just born this weird half-demon spawned by Nazi occultists and saved by these dudes who tried to raise him right. For him, it’s a sense of discovery. His actual destiny as a ‘hero’ is to end the world. He is the beast of the apocalypse. So, in a way, his struggle to be a superhero is to just not do the thing that he’s destined to do,”
Harbour also spoke about his interest in comic books, stating that: “I did read some comics [as a kid], but I was not a huge comic guy. I got into graphic novels later on in my life. In my twenties, my friends introduced me to some darker graphic novels, things like Watchmen and Hellboy. The comics were not really my thing. I was a little more into cartoons and Dungeons & Dragons and like He-Man and Thundercats. Those cartoons and stuff.”
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As yet, there’s no word as to when Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen might start production. Harbour will however next be seen in the second season of Stranger Things, which hits Netflix this October.
(via Heroic Hollywood)
