Here’s an interesting rumor … Nick over at CHUD is reporting that all those folks worldwide who have been stewing away waiting for Hellboy to see theater screens outside of North America may just be getting the last laugh and those of us over here who have been taunting them with the fact that we’ve already seen it should just shut the hell up. Why? Well, word is that the worldwide release of Hellboy may feature the extended, twenty minute longer cut that Del Toro has been prepping for this fall’s uber-DVD release. I went looking to see if there was any word of this over on the official Hellboy message boards – where Del Toro is known to show up from time to time – but nope. And Nick doesn’t cite a source, so there’s no way to vouch for the truth of this one but CHUD’s generally pretty much dead on …
In other Hellboy news the specs for July’s two disc DVD release of the theatrical version have been released and though I’ve been meaning to wait for the coming three disc extended version this one’s going to be really hard to pass up. Why? Multiple commentaries, new Mignola penned Hellboy comics, a stack of documentaries, the option to watch the film all the way through in story board mode, deleted scenes and an awful lot more … there’s no word yet on what the extras on the extended cut will include but word is they won’t be repeating features. It looks like they’ve learned a thing or two from how the Lord of the Rings DVDs were packaged up and actually upped the ante a good bit by cranking out a stack of stellar original bonus material for the ‘basic’ edition rather than just including old EPK materials like LotR did …
