The first Hellboy film made $99 million worldwide from an $85 million budget. The sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army did better with $160 million worldwide from a $66 million budget. Despite the overall improvement, Universal Pictures hasn't given the green light for a third film in the series.
Perlman recently spoke to CBM and says that he's actively campaigning for the third film knowing the plans del Toro has in mind for what would be a trilogy topper:
"I'd like to finish it. I'd like for there to be a third film because the first two films were set up for this huge resolve and he already understands what that resolve will look like. He [del Toro] never gave me the nuts and bolts of it, but he gave me a rather broad strokes sketch of what the third film would look like and it's so epic and so deserved by the fans that hung in there for the first two that I really feel as though it's essential that we make it. So I fight for it every day. Sometimes I'm the only voice and sometimes there are others, but I'm never going to stop trying to get Hellboy 3 made."
Back in February, Mike Mignola the creator of the Hellboy, posted this on his public Facebook page:
"I would be thrilled to see a third one made. I know Ron would like to do it and I think if ANYONE could talk Universal into it it would be del Toro. After #2 someone at the studio assured me that they would NEVER make a third and that was the last contact I had with anyone at Universal. That was a long time ago and things change and I do hope things will change, but who knows. Certainly it all has nothing to do with me. The fate of a third film is entirely somewhere between del Toro and Universal."
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