HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN - Jack Kesy Takes Over As Big Red In First Trailer For R-Rated Reboot

Millennium Media and Ketchup Entertainment have released the first trailer for Hellboy: The Crooked Man, the latest live-action take on Mike Mignola's beloved Dark Horse comic series...

By MarkCassidy - Jul 01, 2024 08:07 AM EST

Filed Under: Hellboy

Big Red just won't stay down for the count!

Despite 2019's Hellboy reboot starring Stranger Things and Black Widow actor David Harbour tanking at the box office, Millennium Media has decided to take another crack at adapting Mike Mignola's acclaimed comic series with yet another live-action adaptation.

EW has debuted the first trailer for Hellboy: The Crooked Man, which is helmed by Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and Crank co-director Brian Taylor and stars Jack Kesy (12 Strong, Deadpool 2) as the demonic hero.

The 3-issue Crooked Man miniseries was a period adventure set in 1956 which saw Hellboy attempt to retrieve a man named Tom's soul from a powerful demon deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. Though this movie may make a few changes, this teaser suggests that it's going to stick pretty close to the source material.

The Crooked Man was co-written by Mignola and Christopher Golden, who has previously with the Hellboy creator on other related comics. We're sure many fans will be disappointed that Guillermo Del Toro (who directed the first two movies) and Ron Perlman aren't involved, but maybe this latest live-action outing for Big Red will still manage to capture the spirit of the character and the beloved comic series?

We'll let you decide!

Have a look at the trailer at the link below, and let us know what you think in the comments section.

Something is wrong in Appalachia in the first trailer for 'Hellboy: The Crooked Man.' Jack Kesy stars as the big red hero trying to figure it out. https://t.co/qB3tMZysqU
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) July 1, 2024

"Stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia, Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent discover a small community haunted by witches, led by the Crooked Man, a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy's past."

Adeline Rudolph (Resident Evil) co-stars as a rookie agent of the BPRD (the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense) who teams up with Hellboy to protect the residents of Appalachia from the creepy Crooked Man, who is collecting souls for the devil. The movie also features Jefferson White (Yellowstone) as Tom Ferrel, Leah McNamara as Effie Kolb, Joseph Marcell as Reverend Watts, Hannah Margetson as Cora Fisher, and Martin Bassindale as the Crooked Man.

An official release date (we're going to assume this one will be heading direct to Digital/streaming) has not been announced, but the movie is expected to debut later this year.

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bobevanz - 7/1/2024, 8:48 AM

Hmm they make Hellboy fanfic's lol no thanks

clintthahamster - 7/1/2024, 9:46 AM

@bobevanz - Fanfics? Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden literally wrote the screenplay.

MG0019 - 7/1/2024, 10:04 AM

@clintthahamster - Right! You don’t get much more “official,” and further from “fanfic” as being written by the original author 😂

Trailer didn’t impress though. Looks very low budget. Not necessarily a bad thing; but compared to the other films it’s very obvious. Getting “Crow 4” vibes.

clintthahamster - 7/1/2024, 10:29 AM

@MG0019 - Yep, it looks very much like a low-budget direct-to-VOD horror feature from the year 2024, which is exactly what it is.

CasualFanatic - 7/1/2024, 10:32 AM

@bobevanz - Mignola wrote the original short story and it’s published canon with Dark Horse. I’ve read it. My only worry is that they are expanding it too much just to make it feature length.

Origame - 7/1/2024, 11:52 AM

@MG0019 - the point being made is that it looks like a low budget fan film on YouTube. Not that it's literally fanfic.

Tpo81 - 7/2/2024, 3:44 AM

@clintthahamster - I'm pretty sure he meant it looked so shitty that it could pass for fanfic. And he's not wrong. I'll watch it, not in a theater because it looks terrible but who knows

Slotherin - 7/1/2024, 8:49 AM

Interesting

ItsNotForMeWahh - 7/1/2024, 8:49 AM

philinterrupted - 7/1/2024, 8:50 AM

Looks like a very high budget Fanfic. I think it’s the casting of Hellboy.

TheFinestSmack - 7/1/2024, 8:53 AM

One of the worst-looking fan films I ever seen.

AC1 - 7/1/2024, 8:54 AM

Huh, didn't realise this was going to be live action, could've sworn I'd heard it was gonna be animated when it was first announced

bkmeijer1 - 7/1/2024, 11:04 AM

@AC1 - same. Maybe the animated project is a seperate thing. Had no idea this was in the works, let alone trailer-ready already

Snow43214 - 7/1/2024, 8:54 AM

The blue eyes just don't look right at all

Spidernoir - 7/1/2024, 1:16 PM

@Snow43214 - If they could just CGI Hellboys eyes all yellow (similar to deadpool) that would improve the look by miles! Do like the horror vibes though..

mountainman - 7/1/2024, 8:55 AM

2016 Hellboy was bad, but the monsters looked cool. Hopefully this is better but this trailer didn’t sell it very well.

HashTagSwagg - 7/1/2024, 9:06 AM

@mountainman - 2019, actually

mountainman - 7/1/2024, 9:13 AM

@HashTagSwagg - I am forever ashamed with my mistake. The “before times” all blend together.

clintthahamster - 7/1/2024, 9:47 AM

@mountainman - I'm honestly having just as much time keeping up with the "after times." I've never been much for "calendar memory," but now I don't even try.

mountainman - 7/1/2024, 10:03 AM

@clintthahamster - Times are absolutely more difficult post-2020 for most of us than pre-2020. A similar thing happened to Americans with 9/11. It just changed everything. It’s one of the reasons so many have such positive memories of the 90’s. Some was just being younger and ignorant to the world, but some of it is also that societal stress increased significantly after both events.

Most everyone I know thinks that these last 4 years were just a blur. 2019 seems like forever ago. Life wasn’t perfect back then, but it certainly was different.

clintthahamster - 7/1/2024, 10:20 AM

@mountainman - I have positive memories of the 90s because I was young and stupid. But, yeah, all sense of time is lost. It doesn't help that we're stuck in this seemingly endless cycle of elections between a narcissistic, nihilistic lunatic and a long line of uninspired, uninspiring establishment centrists. In 2016, I kept thinking "This can't be the best the two parties can offer," but now, two more election cycles later, clearly it is.

mountainman - 7/1/2024, 10:37 AM

@clintthahamster - At least in the 90’s the US wasn’t as directly in constant war as we have been since 2001. Still absolutely invading and interfering in foreign countries but it was less blatant.

The left/right divide back then seemed less intense. And I don’t think that’s just because I was a teenager and didn’t pay attention. 24/7 news cycle wasn’t as big and no social media.

And things were much more affordable for the common person. Government caused inflation (which has always been there) hadn’t driven prices up nearly as bad as it has over the last 25 years.

It’s really not possible to look at any point in the past as perfect. I find it better to look at individual factors or policies that impact us.

One fun stat to me is to look at the national debt and correlate that to cost of living. In 2000, the debt was 5.8 trillion. Now 24 years later it’s almost 35. I am not saying the rising debt is the only cause of lower standard of living, but it’s a factor.

I grew up in Orange County CA and middle class. We didn’t go on fancy vacations and lived a very modest life. The childhood I had is impossible for people in that region (and many parts of the US today).

So I do think there are some legit reasons people yearn for those times and it’s not all nostalgia.

mountainman - 7/1/2024, 11:01 AM

@clintthahamster - The problem with inflation is that it’s cumulative. If you never have deflation, or innovations causing prices to go down, the prices continue to rise.

Even it inflation were the Fed goal of 2% per year, prices would go up 60% over the 24 years from 2000 to 2024.

CPI is also notoriously deceptive as it chooses to leave certain costs out to make inflation seem lower than it is.

A real simple fix would be for the government to just spend less, so we have less debt, and the FED doesn’t have to print new dollars to service that debt. But most politicians have no balls and would never dream on cutting spending. We increase spending in 2020 so that they could throw a bunch of money at individuals and businesses. Well why after the pandemic was over and people went back to work couldn’t we go back to 2019 levels of spending? The increases always stick. We never cut spending. It always goes up. And so does the debt. And our quality of life lowers.

clintthahamster - 7/1/2024, 11:16 AM

@mountainman - @mountainman - "Government caused inflation (which has always been there) hadn’t driven prices up nearly as bad as it has over the last 25 years."

Average inflation over the last 25 years is 2.56%, compared to 5.24% in the previous 25. Even looking at a 10 year scale, the last ten years have only averaged 0.44% higher than the previous 10 years. This century, only 2021 and 2022 saw rates of inflation higher than anything seen in the 90s, and the US had lower inflation rates than 44 other nations in 2021, and 70 in 2022.

Not saying that the last couple of years haven't been punishing because they absolutely have. But there might be some recency bias in your assessment.

"things were much more affordable for the common person."

No doubt that that's true, but I'd chalk that up more to the stagnation of wages for the working class than "government-caused inflation."

https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

1. https://www.investopedia.com/inflation-rate-by-year-7253832
2. https://www.worlddata.info/inflation.php

clintthahamster - 7/1/2024, 11:16 AM

Sorry, that first citation is for the last stat. Got my numbers jumbled up somewhere.

mountainman - 7/1/2024, 11:23 AM

@clintthahamster - If inflation didn’t constantly raise our costs, then constant raising of wages wouldn’t be needed.

clintthahamster - 7/1/2024, 12:02 PM

@mountainman -

clintthahamster - 7/1/2024, 12:13 PM

@mountainman - Man, all I was trying to do was commiserate about how time is weird now. I don't think we need to try to solve The Economy in the comments today.

mountainman - 7/1/2024, 12:20 PM

@clintthahamster - I’m not trying to solve anything because I don’t have the power to. Just like to identify the correct root causes of issues.

Either way, I think we can both agree that “the system” has made it more difficult for the average person to get by these days.

clintthahamster - 7/1/2024, 12:23 PM

@mountainman - Correct. We can also agree that neither the DNC nor the GOP seem particularly interested in doing anything about it.

mountainman - 7/1/2024, 12:36 PM

@clintthahamster - Yes! It’s too bad the system is rigged against third parties. RFK will likely do better than any candidate has in decades but won’t come close to winning.

Based on what I gather of tour politics, have you ever been interested in the Greens?

That party and the libertarian party are the longest running third parties in the country. But the uphill fight for ballot access and getting completely shut out in the media seem to make it to where neither can break 1-2% ever.

clintthahamster - 7/1/2024, 1:01 PM

@mountainman - I backed Nader in 2000, but since then, and until/unless ranked choice (aka instant runoff) voting becomes a reality in the US, I'm voting a straight "lesser of two evils" ticket.

mountainman - 7/1/2024, 1:13 PM

@clintthahamster - I understand your argument and it helps to reinforce my point that more people would vote for parties besides D and R if the cards weren’t stacked in favor of those two so much.

I’m not a lesser of two evils voter, but I understand the argument from those that do it.

Batmangina - 7/3/2024, 7:51 AM

@mountainman -

EZBeast - 7/1/2024, 8:56 AM

That sure is...something...

HermanM - 7/1/2024, 8:57 AM

It's always been a garbage series on print & screen

narrow290 - 7/1/2024, 10:05 AM

@HermanM - What? the books are fantastic and the 1st two movies are damn good

Starlight - 7/1/2024, 9:03 AM

I kinda dig the "feeling/atmosphere", which could be interesting oppossed to a big budget movie... the makeup, though, mmmmm .... we'll see...

Shivermetimbers - 7/1/2024, 10:51 AM

@Starlight - Yeah, the horror tone more closely matched the books in my opinion, which I think looks great. The makeup on Hellboy however...yikes.

xfan320 - 7/1/2024, 9:04 AM

Whoever made this trailer SUCKS. They should have teased Hellboy more before showing him and left some mystery.

Looks like a sequel to the Harbour film (in all the bad ways and none of the good ones)

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HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN - Jack Kesy Takes Over As Big Red In First Trailer For R-Rated Reboot

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