In an interview with io9.com about Season of the Witch, Ron Perlman gave some snippets about his role as Conan the Barbarian’s father in the new Conan film, his role in Guillermo Del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness, and some insights into what Hellboy 3 would have looked like had it gotten made.
The only thing I can share with you is we have this demon who is a victim of this Oracle, which is not negotiable. He’s been summoned to the Earth for the destruction of mankind, and that’s non-negotiable. This whole notion that his nature, is the demon of destruction — against the way he’s been nurtured by his father, John Hurt’s character, to be kind and in the service of mankind. Those things are going to be in play in the third one. Then of course you have Liz pregnant with twins at the end of the second film. So you don’t know what those two offspring are going to be? Are they going to be more human? Are they going to be more demon? Are they going to be a combination of the two? And how is that going to play out, in terms of Hellboy’s destiny. Which I say again is non-negotiable. So that’s the backdrop for the third film. And everything will be resolved, all these open-ended questions will finally be resolved. I don’t know how, he didn’t give me those details. But that’s the backdrop for it.
Ron Perlman has really come a long way since his Beauty and the Beast TV days. He’s really become a great character actor, in many ways not unlike Lon Chaney, working so often from beneath make-up. It’s funny for me to see him on Sons of Anarchy, it’s almost hard for me to buy into his character because he’s NOT some monstrous character. I loved the Hellboy movies (though I think both suffered from weak endings), and particularly the character interactions and developments in that series. To see Hellboy 3 would be quite a thrill!
