Hellboy Reboot Adds Ed Skrein; David Harbour Says It's No Origin Story!

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Ed Skrein has joined the Hellboy reboot to play Major Ben Daimio!

Last week, we came across some rumored script details suggesting that Dark Horse Comics character Major Ben Daimio would appear as a member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense in Neil Marshall's Hellboy reboot. Now, we have some new information about the actor who will play the part.

According to The Hollywood ReporterEd Skrein (Deadpool, The Transporter RefueledGame of Thrones) is set to play Daimio in the Lionsgate/Millennium venture. The 34-year-old British actor will join castmates David Harbour (Hellboy), Ian McShane (his adoptive father, Professor Broom), Sasha Lane (love-interest, Alice Monaghan), and Milla Jovovich (main rival, Blood Queen).

The outlet describes Daimio as follows:

…a rugged military member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, who, due to a supernatural encounter, can turn into a jaguar when angered or in pain.

Ben Daimio - the character Ed Skrein will play in the Hellboy reboot

Ben Daimio, Ed Skrein’s character in the Hellboy reboot (Photo Credit – Center Blog)

Meanwhile, lead actor David Harbour revealed during a recent interview with Happy, Sad, Confused Podcast (via ComicBookMovie) that the Hellboy reboot won't be an origin story:

There is something of [his origin], but it's not really an origin story movie. We kind of pick up the movie like we're running and gunning. We do have a little bit of stuff where we show stuff, but it really is a story, and you just drop in with this guy…You accept that there's this half-demon guy running around the world and being a paranormal investigator and solving crimes and also dealing with his own issues at the same time.

The 42-year-old American actor added that his Anung Un Rama will be different from Ron Perlman's version of the character in the Guillermo del Toro movies. While Perlman "sort of embraces this machismo in himself and in Hellboy", Harbour will concentrate on the character's "certain psychodynamic, where occasionally he has to prove that he's the lion, has to roar, and I think he struggles with his own masculinity."

The Hellboy reboot will kick off production in September 2017. We have no specific release date yet, but the movie’s expected to arrive in theaters in 2018.

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