Ron Perlman talks Conan the Barbarian, At the Mountains of Madness, and Hellboy 3

While Ron Perlman’s been doing the press rounds for SEASON OF THE WITCH in recent days, the burly “Sons of Anarchy” star took the time to let us in on some info regarding a few of his upcoming/potential projects: CONAN THE BARBARIAN, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, and HELLBOY 3.

While speaking to the Examiner, Perlman revealed a little about his role of ‘Corin’ in Marcus Nispel’s CONAN relaunch:

“I play Conan’s father. There’s big-time sword action. But I’m only in the movie for 10 minutes. I can’t tell everything, but the first sequence is huge. It’s epic. All I can tell you is that I work with the Conan who’s 11 years old. And there’s a jump cut to Conan the adult, and I’m no longer on the scene. I don’t want to give away anything.”

Blog io9, meanwhile, was able to get some additional information out of the actor regarding his potential role in Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS. As previously reported, his taking of the role (specifically written for him by Del Toro) is contingent on the scheduling between it and his FX series “Sons of Anarchy”:

“The movie takes place in the North Pole, and so I’m on board as this sort of dog sled dude. I spend my entire life with these dogs. So I’m a rough guy, among all these scientists. I’m a contrast to the deeply intellectual world that’s being explored. I live outside all the time, I live in the elements. I’m a no-bullshit kind of guy in a world of guys who just live in their heads. So it’s a beautiful role to play, given that backdrop. I kick some butt I hope we get a chance to do it.”

Perlman then got into HELLBOY 3, talking about some of the ideas that would be tackled in the sequel – a sequel that at the moment is nothing more than talk:

“The only thing I can share with you is we have this demon who is a victim of this Oracle, which is not negotiable. He’s been summoned to the Earth for the destruction of mankind, and that’s non-negotiable. This whole notion that his nature, is the demon of destruction — against the way he’s been nurtured by his father, John Hurt’s character, to be kind and in the service of mankind. Those things are going to be in play in the third one. Then of course you have Liz pregnant with twins at the end of the second film. So you don’t know what those two offspring are going to be? Are they going to be more human? Are they going to be more demon? Are they going to be a combination of the two? And how is that going to play out, in terms of Hellboy’s destiny. Which I say again is non-negotiable. So that’s the backdrop for the third film. And everything will be resolved, all these open-ended questions will finally be resolved. I don’t know how, he didn’t give me those details. But that’s the backdrop for it.”