Ron Perlman has some fairly iconic roles in his credits, on both the small and big screens. For years, he played the shaggier half of TV’s Beauty And The Beast, as well as Clay Morrow, the Claudius-inspired character on Kurt Sutter’s Sons Of Anarchy. The actor, who recently joined the cast of Crackle’s StartUp, is also known for playing tough, wisecracking guys in Alien: Resurrection, Blade II, and Pacific Rim.
And speaking of Blade II, yes, he’s done a fair amount of work with Guillermo Del Toro, which does indeed include leading the original Hellboy franchise. Those were good-to-great times, especially once Del Toro replaced the gloomier aesthetic of the first movie with the baroque fantasy of The Golden Army. And Perlman was pitch-perfect as the snarky, cigar-chomping, half-demon superhero, bringing more depth to the role as time went on. So naturally, it stung a bit (a lot) to learn that, rather than complete the trilogy Del Toro and Perlman have been stumping for over the years, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is now hard at work on a script for a reboot, which stars David Harbour as ol’ Red.