We learned back in May that the studio Millennium is bringing the Hellboy franchise out with a reboot path set and cast and was working to bring director Neil Marshall of The Descent on for it with David Harbour of Stranger Things set for the title role. Dark Horse Entertainment, which has published the comics for creator Mike Mignola since the early 90′s, is on board with Mike Richardson as a producer.
With the addition of Ian McShane recently as Professor Broom, the next bit of casting news has arrived with Milla Jovovich joining the project. She’s set to play the Blood Queen character in it, though we’re hearing again that this really is just a working title and it’s likely to be called something else. Jovovich has a number of genre credits to her name to be sure, from Fifth Element to numerous Resident Evil films, but she’s usually not playing the villain, which will make for a nice change of pace.
The working title for the new film is Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen with a script by Andrew Cosby, Christopher Golden, and Mike Mignola himself. It looks like nobody from past productions will be involved in this reboot in terms of creative/acting.
Original concept: From his apocalyptic origin in World War II England to the modern-day case of the sole survivor of a doomed Arctic expedition, Hellboy must battle vampire frog creatures and worse in his debut miniseries.
[Source: Deadline]