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Tom Baker and CBR.com<\/a> present 15 Things You Never Knew About the Hellboy<\/em> Movies<\/a>. Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 10. THE SET DESIGN IS FULL OF EASTER EGGS<\/strong> Perhaps most enticing of all for fans of the \u201cHellboy\u201d comics is a fleeting appearance by Roger the Homunculus, a major member of the B.P.R.D. team in the source material. Complete with large ring around his groin, Roger appears as a hulking gray statue on a plinth in a hallway. This is seen when John Hurt\u2019s Professor Broom is showing new recruit Agent Myers around the B.P.R.D. headquarters in the first film. In the same scene, the \u201cIron Shoes\u201d from the short comic story of the same name can also be glimpsed in a display case.<\/p>\n 8. RON PERLMAN WAS DEL TORO AND MIGNOLA\u2019S FIRST CHOICE<\/strong><\/p>\n Revolution Studios were thinking big when they first got the ball rolling on a \u201cHellboy\u201d film. Preceding the coming comic book movie boom, and perhaps working from the template of Sony\u2019s \u201cSpider-Man\u201d success, they wanted big name stars to headline their somewhat more offbeat superhero story. Some of the Hollywood stars being bandied about during early discussions about who should play Hellboy himself included Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and, of course, Nicolas Cage.<\/p>\n What would have likely been a very different, perhaps more manic version of \u201cHellboy\u201d was avoided when Guillermo del Toro came aboard the project. A fan of the comics from way back, he worked closely with creator Mike Mignola to make sure his big screen version of Hellboy was authentic and respectful to the source material. As such, he discussed the lead actor with Mignola personally. They agreed to a meeting where both would say their first choice for the part in unison. To their surprise and relief, both of them said Ron Perlman.<\/p>\n 6. HELLBOY VERY NEARLY HAD A LEFT HAND OF DOOM<\/strong><\/p>\n The Right Hand of Doom is one of the core, unshakable icons of the \u201cHellboy\u201d mythology. Both a Biblical reference and an excuse to put a cover of that one Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds song on the first film\u2019s soundtrack, that huge stone first Hellboy wields is important in-universe (as an impossible-to-escape sign of his destructive destiny) and metatextually (it provided the title for a short story collection of the same name). And yet, all of that very nearly changed.<\/p>\n When the idea of a \u201cHellboy\u201d movie first began to pick up steam, one of the major mooted changes from the source material was to swap sides and make it the Left Hand of Doom. After all, it\u2019s somewhat impractical to expect an actor to perform whilst retaining zero use of their dominant hand. All the early costume design and concept art for the \u201cHellboy\u201d film depict the character with the Red Left hand, until the casting of Ron Perlman proved particularly fortuitous: not only did he have the requisite frame and gravelly voice, he was also a southpaw!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tom Baker and CBR.com present 15 Things You Never Knew About the Hellboy Movies. 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\nNever one to let a good prop to go to waste, del Toro opted to populate the B.P.R.D.\u2019s hall of antiquities with nods to his previous films, including an encore for the creepy jar babies from \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Backbone.\u201d Mike Mignola\u2019s art, meanwhile, is so evocative that it was hard not to try and get in some of his designs into the film\u2019s set decoration, including an original illustration for the gag in-universe \u201cHellboy\u201d comic seen in the first film.<\/p>\n