Despite the popularity of the first two Hellboy movies, which combined to make just shy of $260 million at the box office, director Guillermo Del Toro says that the trilogy is not going to be completed any time in the foreseeable future.
“We have gone through basically every studio and asked for financing,” he said. “and they are not interested.”
He had some guesses as to why they couldn’t get the money for the films, which both were very profitable but also expensive to make:
So it doesn’t sound like we’ll ever get to see the apocalypse through Del Toro’s eyes. Kind of a shame, really, especially since the studios have seen fit to greenlight an entirely unneeded Pacific Rim 2.
[via EW]
