Hellboy star David Harbour has reflected on the reboot's lack of success, admitting that it had "major problems".

Released last month, the dark fantasy movie was directed by Game of Thrones' Neil Marshall and also starred American Gods' Ian McShane and Milla Jovovich, but the box office numbers have been mightily disappointing.

By the sounds of it, we can file this one under "too many cooks spoil the broth".

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Making an appearance at this weekend's MCM Comic-Con in London, Harbour explained to Digital Spy and other media where he felt the film went wrong.



He said: "We did our best, but there's so many voices that go into these things and they're not always going to work out. I did what I could do and I feel proud of what I did, but ultimately I'm not in control of a lot of those things."

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That aside, Harbour also said he felt Hellboy unfairly suffered because of comparisons to the Marvel Cinematic Universe – in that outsider superhero movies shouldn't be stacked against the studio's output.



He said: "The problem that I have with comic book movies nowadays is that I think, and it's a result of the power of Marvel stuff, it's like chocolate, it's a flavour.

"So everybody goes chocolate is delicious and these guys make the best chocolate. So as you judge the movies, it's like, 'Well it's not as chocolatey as this, this does not taste like chocolate at all'.

"And I sort of want a world where there's more flavours than just comparisons to chocolate. So in that way when Hellboy is viewed on the chocolate spectrum, it does very poorly. That being said, it also has major problems.

"I think as a rental or as a movie that you see on an aeroplane, I think you'd be like, 'Oh that was fun' because it's a fun movie, and I think it was unfairly bludgeoned as a result of these comparisons."



Hellboy is out now in the UK and US.

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