After Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Ron Perlman swore off the character because of the elaborate and soul crushing time and effort required during the elaborate makeup process. It took an act of charity for Perlman to even consider sitting down in that makeup chair again. His big heart led him to help fulfill a sick child’s wish.

The old saying that “Time heals all wounds” must be true, because Perlman has reconsidered his decision about Hellboy III:

“[Del Toro and I] both walked away from Hellboy 2 agreeing that there would never be another one. But, with the passage of time, it became clear to me that he really always designed it as a trilogy. [Guillermo] has a very well-articulated idea of what the resolve would look like and it’s amazingly theatrical and is epic in scope and would make for amazing cinema, with or without the first two movies … I said [to Guillermo], ‘You owe it to the world to finish this trilogy. I’ve been giving him Jewish guilt.”

Would Guillermo Del Toro be interested once he learns that the other indispensable man needed to continue the Hellboy trilogy was ready to get back in the saddle? Both Del Toro and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola have stated that unless the project can come up with the required $140 million dollar budget that there’s little hope of completing the trilogy.

Via: Geektyrant

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The next animated feature from DC Comics and Warner Bros. Animation will be based on 2011′s Flashpoint, the comic that saw the old DC Universe die out and merge into The New 52. It’s an interesting choice to develop a movie based on such a recent comic, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess it’s being chosen to further ingrain The New 52 in the public consciousness. Or they just think it’s a good story. I disagree, but you don’t see anyone asking what comics I want to see become animated features. ::cough::TheKillingJokeStarringMarkHamill::cough::

Opinions of Flashpoint aside, the cast for Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox – the animated version’s new title – looks stellar. Fan favorites Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany and Nathan Fillion are all returning as Batman, Lois Lane, and Green Lantern, respectively. Some new, big names are also on the roster, like Ron Perlman as Slade/Deathstroke and Cary Elwes as Aquaman. There’ll be another Batman in this one, too, and as readers of the comics know it’s not Bruce Wayne. Kevin McKidd (Grey’s Anatomy, Rome) will play the other Batman, Michael B. Jordan is Cyborg, Vanessa Marshall (Young Justice‘s Black Canary) is Wonder Woman, Sam Daly (son of often-Superman, Tim Daly) is Superman, C. Thomas Howell (Southland, The Amazing Spider-Man) is the story’s main villain Professor Zoom, and Justin Chambers (Grey’s Anatomy) takes on the starring role of The Flash.

All right, this cast has me pretty excited, possibly enough I’ll overlook their poor decision in adapting Flashpoint. What do you guys think? Conroy back as Batman is always welcomed, but I might even be more pumped for Elwes as the King of the Sea. That’s right, Aquaman fangirl right here.

Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox will release on DVD, Blu-ray, on-demand, and digitally on July 30th.

Source: Comics Alliance

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The last time we saw Mike Mignola‘s  Hellboy on the big screen was in 2008′s Hellboy II: The Golden Army and while filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has always remained rather positive that a third outing would happen, it is starting to look unlikely. Speaking with Latino-Review the Pacific Rim director gave an update on the cinematic future of the World’s Greatest Paranormal Investigator/Beast of the Apocalypse:

“Well, a couple of weeks ago or months ago, I did make a couple of phone calls to test, to gage the possibility of doing that because it’s a big movie. There’s no takers for a movie of that size. The two movies made their money back and a little bit. They were financially good, but one was fifty and the other one was eighty, eighty five. This is a hundred and forty. So no one wants to do that leap, from the financial side. So unless we find a way to do the mother of all kick starters.”

So… what the hell are we waiting for? The man says he needs $140 million raised on Kickstarter so lets start… kicking? Is that the right terminology? Admit it, you want to see Ron Perlman suit up as the man with the red right hand one more time. With any luck, after Pacific Rim obliterates the box office this summer, someone will have the foresight to give the man the money to make the movie. If not… I’d be more than happy to toss money into a Kickstarter to support it, I’m just $139,999,978.32 short at the moment. Does Kickstarter accept cheques?

Source: Latino-Review

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Earlier today we talked about Guillermo del Toro opting out of any talks about directing Star Wars VII, and now we can see some of the reason why. This latest trailer for Pacific Rim is promising some fantastically monstrous scenes of mayhem. This trailer is so full of excitement and action, I can hardly sit still to write about it.

If the story and characterization is half as good as the special effects look we’re in for a hell of a ride, and del Toro is just the guy to have at the wheel. The movie stars Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy), Idris Elba (Thor), Rinko Kikuchi (The Brothers Bloom), Charlie Day (Horrible Bosses), and Ron Perlman (Hellboy). The cast also includes Max Martini, Robert Kazinsky, Clifton Collins, Jr., Burn Gorman, Larry Joe Campbell, DiegoKlattenhoff, and Brad William Henke.

Pacific Rim crashes it’s way onto theater screens July 12th, 2013. I know where I’m going to be, my butt in that theater seat for some rock-um sock-um Robot action!

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While the flux-capacitor hasn’t been perfected, and we can’t help you fix any past holiday humbuggery, maybe we can help you get this holiday season off to a good start.

For the next 12 days (Dec 1st-12th), the staff of Nerd Bastards will be listing a few of their favorite nerdy things. Gadgets, doohickeys, thingamabobs and more – all sorts of  items that have been Nerd tested and Bastard approved.  Basically,  stuff you want, things you need, and everything you can’t have.

We hope you’ll  find some unique and nerdtastic gifts among our selections, and that they make their way under your tree, Menorah or Kwanzaa bush.

Hit the jump for Mark Poynter’s list of Nerdful things. Check back tomorrow for Nick Bungay‘s list. To see archive of this feature, click HERE.

1. Captain America Statue Lamp by Westland Giftware

Luke started off with the replica Captain America shield I wanted s0 I looked around and found this little gem. That would look so good on my desk, providing much needed light and inspiration. There’s the good Captain, the Hulk, Thor, Spider-Man, the *#%-damned Batman, and the Man of Steel. They are priced from $54.99 to $59.99 and would make any fan boy light up (Get it . . . I’m punny.) with joy.

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There’s  just over half a year to go until the premiere of Guillermo del Toro‘s giant robot/monster fight movie, Pacific Rim on July 12th, 2013. The marketing powers that be within the production have started their “viral” marketing campaign with a series of blue prints, shaky found footage videos, and leaked classified government documents.

First off is something many late night television viewers are familiar with, the “This is only a test” emergency alert system. In the world of Pacific Rim however, these alerts are about Kaiju, huge monsters that wreck destruction Godzilla style. If you see one of these warnings you don’t just mute the TV.

There is also some found footage of a Kaiju monster attack giving us the first small glimpse at one of the monstrous creatures threatening mankind.

How do you fight creatures that size? With giant, human controlled robots of course!

You can also check out the Pan Pacific Defense Corps official website. There are “Incident” points to click that show what you’ve seen above, but I’m sure more will be added.

Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Idris Elba, Ron Perlman, and Charlie Daystar in this “Mecha versus Giant monster” epic Pacific Rim.

Via: I09

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Hellboy 3 – nobody though it would get done.  Ron Perlman and Guillermo del Toro have expressed on multiple occasions that they weren’t too jazzed about trying to turn out a third installment of the franchise, despite the hordes of begging and pleading fans.  Now, it looks like they may have changed their mind on the subject and Hellboy 3 will finally see production.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, del Tor had these ominous words to say:

I can say publicly that now we are together in trying [to do Hellboy 3].

Perlman, who happened to be with him at the time added:

The [first] two movies were really set up to have this unbelievable resolve.  Everything that was done in both movies was leading up to this destiny, written in stone, of what Hellboy has been summoned to Earth to do. To not do it, particularly in light of the scope that Guillermo is thinking of for the resolve, would be in my mind a little bit of a shame.

Strangely enough, it was Perlman’s recent sense of charity that may have kicked the third film into gear.  As many already know, Perlman donned the red skin and horns again to visit a kid who wanted to meet Hellboy via the Make-A-Wish Foundation.  This act of kindness brought del Toro around, who had this to say on the matter:

I’ve encountered a lot of kids who are fans of the movies, but to hear the story of this kid who was watching the movies while going through treatment, it really just moved me a lot.  We’re going to make an effort to do it. I hope it happens.

The creator of Hellboy, Mike Mignola, still hasn’t been approached about the film, though no doubt he’ll be on board to bring his iconic character to the big screen one last time (or until someone tries to reboot the damn thing).

Thanks to geektyrant for the heads-up.

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Last Saturday night at SDCC 2012, Thomas Jane and Ron Perlman premiered a short film called Dirty Laundry. Go ahead, watch the video then come back for some follow up about the surprise ending and Thomas Jane’s comments about the short film.

After the premier of the short, Thomas Jane said:

“I wanted to make a fan film for a character I’ve always loved and believed in – a love letter to Frank Castle & his fans. It was an incredible experience with everyone on the project throwing in their time just for the fun of it. It’s been a blast to be a part of from start to finish — we hope the friends of Frank enjoy watching it as much as we did making it.”

The conversation later went to Twitter when in a reply on Twitter to a fan who asked if he had some kind of agenda making the short, Jane added:

“Not pushing anything. Just a fan film from Friends of Frank.”

What did you think about the short? This NerdBastard hopes that more shorts might be in the works. The Punisher character would be a great cable television show, just think “Highway to Heaven” with the Punisher in place of the angel that Micheal Landon played. There could even be guest appearances by other Marvel heroes as Frank travels the world.

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Every once and a while you come across a news story that makes you smile and lights up your day – as well as restore your faith in humanity. This is one of those stories and it just happens to involve a famous actor. Ron Perlman, who physically brought Hellboy to life on the big screen in not one, but two movies went through that brutal make-up job again to make a young kid’s Make-A-Wish request come true.

Spectral Motion is a special effects company best known for working on the Fantastic Four, Hellboy, and X-Men films and they’ve been helping the Make-A-Wish foundation fulfill children’s wishes. One little guy, Zachary, wanted to meet and become Hellboy, and did he get his wish granted in style. When Perlman heard about it he agreed to once again become the demon, horns, hand and all, and spend the day hanging out with Zachary as he got his makeup done.

Here’s a report of the day from Spectral Motion,

In the past three weeks, Spectral Motion has been honored to host two wonderful Make-A-Wish children, Caleb and Zachary. Zachary loved his visit for two very special reasons. It was Zachary’s wish to meet Hellboy and also to become Hellboy. When the Make-A-Wish Foundation contacted Spectral Motion with this request, Mike thought it would be fantastic to have Ron Perlman reprise his role for the day. Ron loved the idea and donned the makeup once more (with the assistance of Lufeng Qu and Eden Elizalde) and also ordered a Hellboy sized meal of burgers, shakes, and fries for Zachary and his family and the entire Spectral crew to enjoy. Later in the day, Zachary was transformed into Hellboy with the assistance of makeup artists Lufeng Qu and Neil Winn. Both of the Make-A-Wish days were a complete thrill for the families of the children, as well as for the crew at Spectral Motion!

Seriously, what a swell guy! Check out a few pics below and more on Spectral Motion’s Facebook page.

Source: Super Hero Hype

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Universally acclaimed actress* Kristin Kreuk has signed up to appear as Catherine in the CW pilot for the remade 80s show Beauty and the Beast.

*sarcasm

After bringing down the collective acting quotient (A.Q.) on Smallville as Lana Lang for seven and half years, clearly Kreuk has what it takes to fill the big shoes of Linda Hamilton on the netlet’s perplexing remake of the cult classic romantic proceduaral that co-starred Ron Perlman.

Since leaving Smallville, Kreuk has had a small recurring part on Chuck and starred as the title character in 2009′s Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li so, yeah, there you go.

To refresh your memory, as if you could ever forget, is the following:

[It] centers on Catherine (Kreuk), a tough-minded NYPD Homicide Detective haunted by witnessing her mother’s murder 9 years ago and the killers’ quick demise at the hands of a Beast. After years of searching, Catherine finally finds the Beast, Vincent Koslow, the survivor of a military experiment that went disastrously wrong, and becomes the protector of his secret life as a bestial superhero.

Source: Coming Soon

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