![]() ![]() None of which I thought at the time was incredibly useful and all of which, when I became a showrunner a decade later, became incredibly useful.” “I was in Budapest where they were filming Hellboy 2 and I got to hang out on set and just watch the filming and learn. “Not a lot of people know this, but my only little Hellboy thing, uncredited, is that back in 2007,” divulges Gaiman. However, the reveal of said contribution ( via EW) was, up until now, a secret to the general public. With the film having taken as a stylistic divergence from its darkly-toned 2004 predecessor towards a more colorful fairy tale aesthetic, Gaiman was tasked with giving the segment a more authentic sense of fantastical whimsy, which was better placed in the hands of a writer the caliber of Gaiman. ![]() In a testimonial that appears in the new documentary, Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters, centered on the impact of the eponymous Hellboy comic book creator, Gaiman makes the surprising disclosure that he was tapped by del Toro to script the sequel’s animated prologue. It’s a contribution that, in retrospect, helped shape the film’s mythology-heavy plot. Interestingly, the author has revealed how an uncredited contribution to director Guillermo del Toro’s 2008 sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, was his first substantive foray into the world of film and television writing. While Neil Gaiman has been one of the most revered writers in the world of comics for decades, his live-action CV has grown in recent years as he fields an increasing number of adaptations of his own works.
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