Jack Kesy to play Hellboy in upcoming franchise reboot The Crooked Man
The
Deadpool 2 veteran will play the big red monster hunter in the latest adaptation of Mike Mignola's beloved superhero horror comics.
By
Christian HolubMarch 02, 2023 at 12:58 PM EST
Are you ready for a new Hellboy? Millennium Media announced Thursday that Jack Kesy (
12 Strong, Deadpool 2) has been cast as the big red monster hunter in the upcoming franchise reboot film
The Crooked Man.
Based on the comic miniseries of the same name by creator
Mike Mignola and artist Richard Corben,
The Crooked Man will find the hero stranded in '50s Appalachia alongside a rookie BPRD agent. They discover a small community haunted by witches and the titular Crooked Man, a devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy's past. The story will therefore focus on a younger Hellboy at an earlier point in his career than we've seen in previous adaptations.
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The new film will be directed by Brian Taylor (
Crank) with a script by Mignola and genre journeyman Christopher Golden, a writer on
Hellboy comics like
The Bones of Giants and
The Dragon Pool.
"Jack Kesy is a dynamic actor who has the ability to morph into his roles," Millennium Media executive Jonathan Yunger said in a statement. "His talent and stature are perfect for this younger Hellboy. I was very impressed with him while working together on
The Outpost."
Kesy will thus become the third actor to play Hellboy on screen, after
Ron Perlman and
David Harbour. Perlman starred in director Guillermo del Toro's original 2004
Hellboy film and its 2008 sequel
Hellboy II: The Golden Army, while Harbour took over the role for the 2019 reboot directed by Neil Marshall. The 2019
Hellboy bombed at the box office, and
Harbour recently revealed that he keeps a framed photo of himself in the costume to stay humble "whenever I'm feeling particularly good about myself."
