While out promoting SEASON OF THE WITCH, genre favorite Ron Perlman spoke about his roles in a few anticipated upcoming projects, including CONAN THE BARBARIAN, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, and HELLBOY 3.
On his role in the upcoming CONAN THE BARBARIAN reboot, Perlman told Examiner: “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.”
On Guillermo del Toro’s H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, he said: “That’s been [del Toro’s] number-one labor-of-love movie that he’s been trying to do for a number of years. I think that was the one he identified as the next one he’d like to do. Because I’ve been away working and he’s been away doing other stuff, I haven’t had a chance to catch up with him personally to see everything’s going and where everything is at.”
He elaborated on his role while speaking to io9: “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.”
He also spoke about HELLBOY 3, a film he hopes will happen so they can close the trilogy: “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.”
Which of these upcoming projects are you most excited for? In the mean time, you can catch Ron Perlman on the big screen tomorrow in SEASON OF THE WITCH.
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