Who would you call when you have a box office flop on your hands? Ryan Reynolds, apparently. Emmy-nominated and Stranger Things nominee David Harbour, recently told GQ that he called Reynolds to help him tackle the disaster of Neil Marshall’s 2019 Hellboy reboot. Harbor led the reboot in the lead role, but the The film was not a hit with critics, earning only $21 million in the United States on a production budget of $50 million. Even at the worldwide box office, the film grossed $44 million.
“I know [Ryan Reynolds] A little bit,” Harbor said. “I called him up and said, ‘Hey, I just need to know something. Do you know ‘Green Lantern?’. Big flop for you. What the hell is that, because I think I? “I will now. I’ll be fine? Will I survive this?
Harbor said Reynolds was “nice” about the whole situation, but bombing Hellboy at the box office was still a difficult experience. As Harbor explained, “It was a very difficult experience because he really wanted to get ahead. I really like it [Mike Mignola, Hellboy creator]-I love that character. And then right away when I started, even when it was announced, I realized that people didn’t want to reinvent that character. I was naive and very optimistic about what we were going to do.”
In a May 2020 Instagram post, Harbor linked the flop of his “Hellboy” movie to fans of Guillermo del Toro’s 2004 “Hellboy” and the 2008 sequel who didn’t want the reboot to succeed.
“I think it flopped before we started shooting because I think people didn’t want us to do the movie,” Harbor said at the time. “Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman created this very special thing that we thought could be reinvented and then [fans] The internet was definitely saying, “We don’t want you to touch this.” Then we made a movie that I think was funny and I think it had its problems, but it was a funny movie and then people were very opposed to it and that’s the people, but I learned the lesson in many different ways.
Despite the box office flop of “Hellboy,” Harbor found success with the starring role of “Black Widow” in the MCU and the enduring popularity of Stranger Things on Netflix. The fourth season of the streaming series just became the most-watched English-language television season on Netflix, and was the only second show to exceed one billion hours streamed.
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