Over 1000 people have already added their names to the list of those wanting Ron Perlman back for Hellboy 3. Can we get enough to make the great man come back to the series?
Appreciating that there are more stumbling blocks to getting a third Hellboy movie made than this one, there's nonetheless no chance of it happening at all without the mighty Ron Perlman involved. However, as Guillermo del Toro confirmed to us earlier in the week, Perlman isn't keen to reprise the role. You can read more about that here.
Mr del Toro nonetheless did suggest that if we could put an online petition together, it might just help bend Ron Perlman's arm on the matter, and thus we quickly popped something online, and you've come along in good numbers already to add your names. So far, at the time of writing, the total is just over 1100 names.
We relayed this news back to Guillermo del Toro, who declared "That's great!" and when we asked him how many names we needed, he replied "AS MANY AS WE CAN GET!!"
So, friends, this is our moment. Can we possibly generate enough names to persuade Ron Perlman that Hellboy 3 is his destiny? That this is the film he needs to make? That it's worth sitting in the makeup chair for hours at a time?
The petition (for want of a better word!) is here - and please spread this far and wide. Let's see if movie fans really can persuade an actor to return to a franchise...