Hellboy Reboot: 8 Things We Want From The Big Red Revival

8. Retelling The Origin Story Is Perfectly Fine

Origin stories are reviled in the world of comic book movies, and with good reason.

How many more times do we have to see Batman's parents gunned down in a dark alley or watch that radioactive spider take a bite out of Peter Parker?

But Hellboy is a different proposition. For one, his backstory is nowhere near as well known as that of your Marvel and DC A-listers, and let's no forget we've only seen it on screen once before - way back in 2004, and even then it was glossed over.

Hellboy's origin story is a compelling one involving Nazi occultists during World War II, inter-dimensional portals and the fall of Rasputin, so there's plenty of scope to tell an expanded version of it in the upcoming reboot.

This approached worked well enough for Batman Begins, didn't it?