The sequel segment, a title-appropriate golden-hued animated prologue, takes an approach similar to The Princess Bride, starting with a live-action flashback to Christmas of 1955 following Hellboy as a child being read a fairy tale by his adopted father, Trevor Bruttenholm, played by the late, great John Hurt, reprising the role of the character killed in the first film. None of which I thought at the time was incredibly useful and all of which, when I became a showrunner a decade later, became incredibly useful.” “I was in Budapest where they were filming Hellboy 2 and I got to hang out on set and just watch the filming and learn. “Not a lot of people know this, but my only little Hellboy thing, uncredited, is that back in 2007,” divulges Gaiman. However, the reveal of said contribution ( via EW) was, up until now, a secret to the general public. With the film having taken as a stylistic divergence from its darkly-toned 2004 predecessor towards a more colorful fairy tale aesthetic, Gaiman was tasked with giving the segment a more authentic sense of fantastical whimsy, which was better placed in the hands of a writer the caliber of Gaiman. In a testimonial that appears in the new documentary, Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters, centered on the impact of the eponymous Hellboy comic book creator, Gaiman makes the surprising disclosure that he was tapped by del Toro to script the sequel’s animated prologue. It’s a contribution that, in retrospect, helped shape the film’s mythology-heavy plot. Interestingly, the author has revealed how an uncredited contribution to director Guillermo del Toro’s 2008 sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, was his first substantive foray into the world of film and television writing. Once Liz Sherman melted down the crown, the Golden Army was finally shut down for eternity, never to awaken again.While Neil Gaiman has been one of the most revered writers in the world of comics for decades, his live-action CV has grown in recent years as he fields an increasing number of adaptations of his own works. Luckily, being the son of the Fallen One, Hellboy was able to challenge Nuada as the Golden Army observed the fight, ready to obey the orders of the victor. agents attempted to stop Nuada, they found themselves outnumbered and overwhelmed by the Golden Army. The sight of this carnage convinced Balor to forge a truce with the thoroughly cowed humans, and as part of that truce, ordered the crown broken into three pieces: two for the Elves and one for Mankind, while the Golden Army itself was deactivated and sealed away in Bethmora, located in Northern Ireland, before it was ravaged with disease.Ĭenturies later, returning from his self-imposed exile, Nuada began to reassemble the Crown of Bethmora to bring the Golden Army back to life for the complete genocide of the human race. They simply destroyed wherever they roamed, leaving countless corpses in their wake. The Golden army did not distinguish between friend or foe-they had no pity for the weak, the feeble, the young or the elderly. However, as Balor learned too late from watching the complete destruction of the opposing humans, the Golden Army were incapable of both mercy and remorse, and such held nothing back in combat. With his son Nuada convincing him to allow it, Balor commissioned the Golden Army's creation along with the only means to activate and control them: the mythical Crown of Bethmora. The Golden Army came into being countless ages ago, when a Master Goblin blacksmith suggested to King Balor of the Elves that to defeat mankind, they would need an army capable of destroying them utterly, if not to do so, then as a threat. The Golden Army can only be controlled by an individual of royal blood who wears the Golden crown, though command of the Army can be won over in honorable combat. It was commissioned by King Balor during the war against mankind, and later locked away by the same to prevent its power from falling into unowrthy hands. Far larger and stronger than any human, they could repair themselves from all damage and were effectively indestructible due to this. The Golden Army, or the "unstoppable force", was a clockwork army composed of 70x70 (4,900)mechanical warriors.
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