As well as promoting forthcoming sci-fi epic Pacific Rim at Comic-Con, director Guillermo Del Toro has also been talking up the prospect of a second Hellboy sequel.

Speaking to EW alongside the film’s star Ron Perlman, Del Toro said “I can say publicly that now we are together in trying [to do Hellboy 3 ].”The [first] two movies were really set up to have this unbelievable resolve,” Perlman continued. “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 the light of the scope that Guillermo is thinking of for the resolve - would be in my mind a little bit of a shame.” EW added that the director has yet to speak to a studio or Hellboy creator Mike Mignola about any potential sequel.

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