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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

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The eponymous character states his preferred exclamation a total of four times in this film. He said it six times in the first movie.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army is based on the fictional Dark Horse Comics character Hellboy, created by American comic book writer Mike Mignola. The screenplay was written by Mignola and director Guillermo del Toro. It is a sequel to Hellboy (2004).

The Golden Army is an army of magically constructed mechanical creatures that was created by goblin blacksmiths for the elven king, Balor.

MEIN HERZ BRENNT by German industrial metal band Rammstein. The music at the start is from Gustavo Santaolalla's score for Babel.

Unfortunately, no. When Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola started writing the script for the second Hellboy movie, they wanted to include Roger. However, they couldn't get the story to work, so they threw it out and started over, coming up with The Golden Army in about one night. He may show up in the possible third film. However, Roger does appear in the background of both the first & second Hellboy films. He is in a glass display case at the end of a hallway in the BPRD headquarters that features antiquities and trophies from past cases.

No, he will not. Though it was hoped that he would have a cameo in the ending credits, Universal never gave the go ahead.

However, Kroenen's damaged gas-mask (from his fight with Hellboy in the first film) is on display in one of the BPRD's trophy cases.

Rupert Evans does not appear in this movie due to his being cast in Kiss of the Spider Woman, in London. The film explains his absence in an early scene: Hellboy had him reassigned to Antarctica.

Other than characters from the first film, Johann Kraus is the only character from the comic series. All other new characters (Nuala, Nuada, Wink, etc.) were created solely for the film.

In the first movie, it was a decision by the studio to have David's voice for Abe Sapien instead of Doug. The reason for this is that they hoped to bank on David's name bringing in more people to the theater. This backfired when David refused to take credit for what he felt was truly Doug Jones' role and as such never promoted the movie, never did any interviews and didn't go to the premiere. Since Universal is producing this movie instead of Sony or Revolution, they are allowing Doug to do the voice of Abe and David hasn't been asked to return.

For the record, David tried to modulate his voice to sound like Doug's when he did the looping sessions for the first movie.

Unfortunately, Mr. Beltrami has other commitments and is unable to write the score for this movie. However, Danny Elfman (The Nightmare Before Christmas) has signed on to write the score with the promise that he will stay true to the original music from the first movie.

No one. Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola have both stated that when Ron no longer wants to play Hellboy, there will be no more movies.

Ron Perlman recently stated in an interview with Wizard magazine that he would never get tired of playing Hellboy. He just requested a couple of years in between films to recuperate, he said that the role exhausts him more than anything he has ever done, but he loves doing the movies. Only time will tell if he truly wants to continue the series.

Professor Broom will be seen in a flashback at the beginning of the film reading a story to a much younger Hellboy.

That is Johann Kraus. He is a disembodied ectoplasmic spirit with psychic abilities who maintains a tangible form via a containment suit. Without the suit, his spirit would eventually dissipate and he would be lost forever. He was a medium whose body was destroyed due to a freak accident during a seance. No one is really sure exactly what happened, perhaps the movie will go into it.

You can find out more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Kraus

In the first movie, Liz stated that after each of her 'episodes', she tends to black out anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. That being the case, it only makes sense for her to also rely on a weapon such as a firearm since the use of her abilities will leave her powerless for some undetermined amount of time.

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He was mostly a man in a costume and his face was animatronics. A small amount of CGI was used for touch ups and certain shots and when his chain-extended hand was used.

Featurette: http://uk.movies.ign.com/dor/objects/41373/hellboy-ii-the-golden-army/ videos/hellboy2_wink_062508.html;jsessionid=3eejgqn7on2hi

Guillermo Del Toro and Mike Mignola have both said that they would love to make Hellboy a trilogy. However, if Hellboy II does not succeed in the theaters, they will make sure the Two-Disk Special Edition gives the story a proper ending.

Guillermo says that if he does make a third film he wants it to feature the old Universal movie monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Wolf Man, etc.) coming to life and battling the B.P.R.D. Universal is distributing Hellboy II.

Sony and Revolution Studios had a falling out and HELLBOY II was one of the casualties when their association went south. Universal picked it up.

No.