Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Coming to a cinema to you this summer, the long awaited sequel to Hellboy!

Writer Mike Mignola described the story he had developed, with director Guillermo del Toro, as one that focused on folklore and fairy tales, rather than the more pulp elements of the first film:

"It's not Nazis, machines and mad scientists but the old gods and characters who have been kind of shoved out of our world. I kind of equate it to the whole American Indian situation. The Indians were shoved onto reservations. You had your old, wise Indians who said, 'You know, this is the way it is. We can't fight anymore. We just have to accept our fate.' You then have your Geronimo character saying, 'Or we could just kill the White Man.' That's kind of the situation we have in the film. We have our elf characters resigning to the way things are and then there's one saying, 'Or we could take the world back.' The main difference is - what if the Indians had a nuclear warhead? The elves have their equivalent of the weapon that is too terrible to use. What if this guy decided to use it?"

Here's the trailer: