THE Birmingham interview, but found this...

[Neil Hill]

I've been trolling around the web lately trying to locate a video or transcript of the Birmingham Convention interview Mike did last year, with accompanying slides explaining his working process on Darkness Calls, pics of his studio, etc., but haven't been able to find it yet. Instead, I found this interesting interview..

http://www.channel4.com/4talent/feature.jsp?id=7386

My apologies if this has already been posted.

[Kees_L]

Cool stuff this, I hadn't read it yet. And Baltimore the movie, could be terrific but I suspect a big shot would be needed at the helm to pull it off. Well actor-wise also, with the story being unraveled by three men at an inn... Harvey Keitel (captain), George Costanza (doctor) and a red dyed Keannu Reeves?

[Todd H]

I'd be curious to know what this was:

Del Toro wanted to put into the first picture where I said 'Please, no!' and actually gave him a couple of pages of original artwork to take it out of the screenplay!"

[Nick W]

I'd be curious to know what this was:

Del Toro wanted to put into the first picture where I said 'Please, no!' and actually gave him a couple of pages of original artwork to take it out of the screenplay!"


I believe GDT wanted to put Baby HB in a giant hellish crib. :D

N

[Kees_L]

Ah, so nót a wacky Mignola-HB meet-up scene with Mike to be played by... George Costanza?

[Neil Hill]

I believe GDT wanted to put Baby HB in a giant hellish crib. :D

N

A crib like two stories tall, if I remember! :eek:

I believe Mike told Guillermo to make Hellboy whatever he wanted- as the comic version already existed and was its own thing- but Del Toro said that he wanted to keep Hellboy as close to the source material as possible. However, when Guillermo mentioned the giant crib idea, I'm sure Mike re-thought his carte blanche handing of the torch to Guillermo, and felt he better sweeten the deal to keep that scene out by offering art. :D

[manwiththemachinegun]

That's pretty cool that Hellboy is going to have an actual 'ending'. First I've heard of it. While I enjoy Superman and Batman, the fact that there's never any sort of closure to their stories is a big drag. That's why I enjoy the animated universe as much as the real one, cause that's the ONLY way we'll ever get closure to stuff like the Joker. :p

Great news, I'm sure it'll be worth of the mythos Mignola has so carefully crafted.