HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN Adds YELLOWSTONE Actor Jefferson White and Adeline Rudolph To Cast
Hellboy: The Crooked Man continues to fill its cast, and the most recent to jump on board the project includes Yellowstone actor Jefferson White, and Adeline Rudolph (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina). They joined the previously cast Jack Kesy, who is playing Hellboy. White will be taking on the role of Tom Ferrell in the movie and Rudolph will play Bobbie Jo Song.
The script for the film is being written by comic book creator Mike Mignola and Chris Golden. The story is based on the comic of the same name, and in that story, Hellboy teams up with a rookie BPRD agent named Tom Ferrell, and they find themselves stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia. “There, they discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy’s past: the Crooked Man.” The story will “expand Hellboy’s world through one of the most beloved issues of the comic series.”
Brian Taylor (Crank, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Gamer) is set to direct the movie and he previously said that he’s looking to “really honor” the original comics: “We started with a draft by Mike and Chris. Funny enough, a lot of what I’m doing is trying to bring it even closer to the original comic book than what they did… A comic book will never directly translate to the screen, but I will tell you that my intent in the movie is to really honor and bring to life the original comics.”
Taylor also confirmed that he is looking to make an R-Rated version of the film, saying: “We’ve definitely had a discussion of, you know, it doesn’t really serve anybody to make something R for R’s sake. To say it has to be R so we have to add A, B and C. But this material, this original material is dark and scary and violent and adult. So in order to really embrace that, we just don’t wanna have any handcuffs on.”
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Source: THR