‘Hellboy’ Reboot Is “More Violent and Bloody,” Says Director – New Image

But with Neil Marshall taking over the series for a 2019 reboot, the Dog Soldiers and The Descent director is taking Mike Mignola’s comic book back towards more hardened horror territory, with a gore-soaked, R-rated incarnation. “It was always a case of, ‘When in doubt, go back to the source material.’ Some of the stuff is pretty sick,” Marshall tells Empire in the January 2019 issue. “More violent and more bloody. We weren’t making it with handcuffs on.”