New documentary at fantasticfest brings you into the shadowy mind of the man that created Hellboy.
. All the work of Mike Mignola, the artist and writer behind what is now known as the Mignolaverse, built around the blue-collar Prince of Hell himself, Hellboy - and arguably more importantly, loving husband to Christine, to whom it feels like he gets a chance to give the public recognition she clearly deserves., documentarians Jim Demonakos and Kevin Konrad Hanna delve into the life, influences, and impact of the expressionist master of shadows and negative space.
Few documentaries on the creative process manage to strike that fine line between two artists who find themselves at loggerheads, butgets to the heart of Mignola and del Toro's disagreements. The resolution is a fascinating one, based - possibly in hindsight and maturity - on understanding what needed to happen in the process of adaptation. As the old saying goes, just because someone films a book, that doesn't make the book go away ...
Throughout there is an implied undercurrent of fear, a conviction that he had to change to avoid failure. This was a boy born and raised in sunny Berkeley but with a pure British and New England affinity for fog and granite, ghosts and two-fisted tough guys.
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