Hellboy creator Mike Mignola has “mixed feelings” about some of the other Hellboy movies, but thinks the new R-rated version is “amazing”

Mike Mignola has been involved in the new Hellboy reboot from the very beginning. The comic book legend penned the original script for the R-rated movie Hellboy: The Crooked Man with Christopher Golden and has been part of the process of bringing it to the screen throughout.

Speaking to GamesRadar+ at San Diego Comic-Con, Mignola opened up about how much he enjoyed being involved from the very beginning. “So often I would come in late on projects where somebody else had already put the pieces together in a way that didn’t quite fit,” he told us. “And this time, I got a chance to say, ‘We’re going to do The Crooked Man, we’re going to stick to that story.’ We need to add a little bit of backstory. So we borrowed it from one other story so we didn’t have to make up new stuff.”