AICN spy recently saw a presentation on Hellboy 2.

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34615

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I am recently returned from a trip to Budapest to watch a night of shooting on HELLBOY II, so I can confirm pretty much everything our new spy has to say about the project.

I'll have a full report up whenever I get the okay, but I can say now that Johann looks ****ing terrific. Our spy mentions his suit looking very BIOSHOCK and he's not wrong... the work the practical effects guys did on making keeping this character as CG-free as possible is fantastic. Considering that the character is essentially a cloud of gas in a suit with a glass head, that's pretty incredible that it's going mostly without CG. They have little motors built into the half-domed head of the character and a little vent that produces real smoke at the push of a button that the little motored fans blow and cause to swirl around in the glass head.

Anyway, more on that later.

Next up was Hellboy 2. Now I've never seen Hellboy (I own it but have never watched it) so stop me if any of this stuff is common knowledge. All of the original cast are back (Jeffrey Tambor was in the original? Get the **** outta here!) including Perlman, obviously. Voice Over Man did mention a few new additions to the cast; Johann, a dude made entirely out of gas (decked out in a cool Bioshock-esque suit) plus a troll with one eye called Mr. Wink. Also, and this may be a rather large spoiler, but it seems there's a five storey high monster (tentacles, eyes and ****, hard to see from the concept art) that attacks the Brooklyn Bridge. Saw some concept art for the Golden Army, and they kinda look like bigger, badder, golder versions of the Destroyer druids from Episode 1, crossed with a bit of General Grievous. But not lame.

 

[kookevin3]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008 is coming to be SO COOL!!!!

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I know, i cant wait for this, its the only movie coming out in 2008 that i currently have NO issues with.

 

[Porygon]

I know, i cant wait for this, its the only movie coming out in 2008 that i currently have NO issues with.

To be fair, we have no information to have an issue with

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

To be fair, we have no information to have an issue with

Oh i disagree, we have the cast and crew, not to mention the storyline, and didnt you read the script review? It practically gave the whole movie away .

 

[L0ngsh0t]

Oh i disagree, we have the cast and crew, not to mention the storyline, and didnt you read the script review? It practically gave the whole movie away .

which script review?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

which script review?

Its only a few threads down but here's the link anyway :

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=247327

 

[L0ngsh0t]

Its only a few threads down but here's the link anyway :

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=247327

thanks i was just wondering which one you where talking about, i've read it before, I was wondering if there was more than one or not

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^Oh no, its still the very early, which GDT mentioned has been changed a lot due to budget, but i'm sure the changes they have made wont effect the movie too much.