David Harbour Blames the HELLBOY Reboot Failure on the Upset Fans of Guillermo del Toro's Original Films
David Harbour comes off as being a charming guy and a wonderful actor. I was actually excited when he loaded the role of Hellboy in director Neil Marshall’s reboot. He was a great choice to take on the role, and I honestly thought that he did a solid job in the movie. It’s a shame because the film had potential! It really could have been an awesome movie! Unfortunately, the story and the script for the film ended up being crap.
In a recent Instagram post, Harbour opened up about the reboot and said he felt that the movie bombed because of the loyal fanbase of Guillermo del Toro’s original films. He thinks they were just too upset to give it a chance. He explained:
“I think it failed before we began shooting because I think that people didn’t want us to make the movie and for some reason there was like a big… Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman created this iconic thing that we thought could be reinvented and then they certainly – the loudness of the internet was like, “We do not want you to touch this.” And then we made a movie that I think is fun and I think had its problems but was a fun movie and then people were just very very against it and that’s people’s right but I learned my lesson in a lot of different way.”
Personally, I don’t think that’s the case. I’m a huge fan of Del Toro’s Hellboy movies, but I was more than willing to give this reboot a chance. I went in with a completely open mind, but it just ended up being a huge disappointment. But yeah, of course, fans of the original film were upset that the franchise was getting a reboot instead Del Toto getting to make his third Hellboy film, but that’s not enough of a reason for the film to fail. It failed because it was just a bad movie. Had the movie actually been great, the outcome would have been a different story.
On top of that, the movie was plagued with some serious behind the scenes issues while it was in production. It wasn’t hard to see how those issues affected the final film product.
I don’t think it’s fair to blame the fans for the film’s failure. They weren’t the ones that made the film. Had the filmmakers made a good film, the fans would have supported it.
Via: Screen Rant