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Hellboy has been one of my favorite comic book movies after my brother introduced me to the film a few years ago. I love the characters themselves, but I also love the actors who play the characters. I am highly anticipating the sequel to hit theaters this summer because I am ready to see Ron Pearl as the red superhero.

Writer and director Guillermo Del Toro told SCI FI Wire that he would love to do a third film as long as the sequel does well. But he said he would stop making Hellboy films after the third.

“If there was ever a third one, I would really make sure that we at least sign a contract that there is no more,” del Toro said in an interview at New York Comic Con last week. “No prequels and no sequels: nothing. If that happens, then there is a third one we have planned, and the seeds are planted in this film.”

Del Toro has some interesting ideas for the third film that would try to mimic the mythology of the comic-book series. He wants to bring back the Nazis as the bad guys, but he wants to see them operating now. In the 2000s.

“…what public face would the Nazis have in 2009/2010? How rich would they be? How in charge could they be? It’s not this group of freakies that hide in the sewers, but people that are incredibly rich.”

The sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, strays from the comic-book as it is an original story created by Mike Mignola and Del Toro. The sequel hits theaters July 11th.