Hellboy Animated

Hellboy Animated
Based on	Hellboy by Mike Mignola
Screenplay by	Matt Wayne Tad Stones
Story by	Mike Mignola Tad Stones
Directed by	Phil Weinstein
Starring	Ron Perlman Selma Blair Doug Jones Peri Gilpin John Hurt Cree Summer Peri Gilpin Kath Soucie Jim Cummings Dan Castellaneta
Composer	Christopher Drake
Country of origin	United States Japan
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Madhouse Studios
Original release
Release	October 28, 2006 (2006-10-28) – March 10, 2007 (2007-03-10)

Hellboy Animated is an American straight-to-DVD anime-inspired superhero film series based upon the Hellboy comic books by Mike Mignola. Both films are anthologies and contain the full-length titles named Sword of Storms and Blood and Iron, received the signature of Mike Mignola and Guillermo del Toro.

Production

Like the live-action films, it was co-produced by

Cast

Ron Perlman, who played Hellboy in the live-action films, reprises his role in the animated version. Selma Blair and John Hurt also reprise their roles from the film Liz Sherman and Professor Trevor Bruttenholm, respectively. The voice of Abe Sapien is Doug Jones, who played Abe in prosthetic work in the live-action movies but did not provide the voice for the first film (Abe's vocals for that film were done by an uncredited David Hyde Pierce). He did, however, voice the character in the second film. Kate Corrigan is voiced by Peri Gilpin. Music is by Christopher Drake.

Films

Sword of Storms

In Sword of Storms (2006), Hellboy and

teammates, Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman, try to stop one of the Dragons on the first wave of the coming chaos.

Blood and Iron

Hellboy: Blood and Iron (2007) deals with Professor Trevor Bruttenholm's experience with a vampiress (the blood countess) in 1934 and the present day. Hellboy also faces off against Hecate.

Short films

Iron Shoes

This short film was included as a bonus feature on the DVD for Hellboy: Blood and Iron.

The Dark Below

This short film was released in 2010 on various streaming services.^[3]

Comics

As with the

released three volumes under the Hellboy Animated range. These continued the adventures of the animated characters.

• Hellboy Animated:
  • The Black Wedding (80 pages, January 2007,
    ISBN 1-59307-700-9)^[4]
    contains:
    • "The Black Wedding" (written by Jim Pascoe with art by Rick Lacy)
    • "Pyramid of Death" (written by
      Fabio Laguna
      )
  • Judgment Bell (80 pages, June 2007,
    ISBN 1-59307-799-8)^[5]
    contains:
    • "The Judgment Bell" (written by Jim Pascoe with art by Rick Lacy)
    • "The Menace of the Mechanical Monster" (written and drawn by Tad Stones)
  • The Menagerie (80 pages, December 2007,
    ISBN 1-59307-861-7)^[6]
    contains:
    • "The Menagerie" (written by Jason Hall with art by Rick Lacy)
    • "Small Victories" (written by
      Nate Piekos
      with art by Fabio Laguna)

Additionally, a minicomic titled Phantom Limbs (written by Jim Pascoe with art by Rick Lacy) was included with the DVD of Sword of Storms. Another minicomic, The Yearning (written by Jim Pascoe with art by Ben Stenbeck) was included with the DVD of Blood & Iron.

Merchandise

Gentle Giant Ltd, famed for its statues, has been given the license for the Hellboy Animated action figures. A first-look Hellboy figure shrink-wrapped to a copy of the Blood and Iron DVD was released as a Best Buy exclusive.^[7][8]

References

External links

• Official Hellboy Animated production blog