Harbour Hatin’ on Del Toro Fans?

This article (https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/322328/hellboy-david-harbour-blames-del-toro-fans-for-reboots-failure/) tells us in its headline that David Harbour, star of the recent reboot of HELLBOY, puts the blame for the film’s failure on the fans of Guillermo Del Toro, and Ron Perlman by extension. Now normally Dread Central is better than semi-clickbaity headlines, but that is most certainly what this one is. If you actually read the article, which I did, it takes a bit of inference to interpret that David Harbour is truly annoyed with fans of Guillermo Del Toro’s HELLBOY movies. What he actually said was this: “I think [the movie] 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 ways.”

Alright, so in a way he does put the blame on fans of the original films, but notice that he also allows that his movie had flaws. Also he should realize that the people who savaged the film were NOT, generally speaking, the fans of the first two movies, but the commoner critics. But he is absolutely right about the fans not wanting Hellboy to be rebooted. We loved the two movies Del Toro gave us. We *wanted* to see the end of the trilogy. That doesn’t mean we weren’t willing to give the reboot a chance. We did. I saw it in the theater and I enjoyed it, despite the admitted flaws. Doesn’t mean I and my fellow Hellboy marks wouldn’t have preferred to have Del Toro finish his trilogy first. Blame Mike Mignola for that. He thought he could spearhead a better Hellboy movie, one more faithful to his comics. He should’ve left well enough alone. If it ain’t broke, after all…

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