10 Great Movie Ideas Let Down By Their Budget
2. Hellboy
Guillermo del Toro had been begging to get behind the wheel of another Hellboy movie since 2008's Hellboy II: The Golden Army and had been sprinkling bread crumbs of a potential follow up for years.
That all came to a devastating end in 2017 when Del Toro admitted to Twitter that any hope of Hellboy 3 was gone, as no company was willing to invest the $120 million needed to fund his vision for a sensational blow-off for the Demon.
Then, just as fans the world over had given up on the idea of Hellboy ever returning to their screens, Lionsgate announced that Neil Marshall would be directing David Harbour as the titular anti-hero. Only this iteration would require just $50 million to finance.
We'd finally be seeing the return of a beloved character and the studio didn't have to break the bank to do so.
Win-win?
Sadly, it was pretty clear from the get go that the effects were not up to standard for a film of this calibre in 2019 and Ian McShane's disastrously animated body - upon being turned into a spirit towards the end of the movie - was memed for all the wrong reasons.
A poorly presented story, lacking enough depth or character development to paper over the cheap effects meant that Hellboy earned a putrid $44.6 million worldwide.
What could have been Guillermo...