SUBMITTED BY Typhon24
August 30, 2004 — Bloody-Disgusting.com has an interesting interview with screenwriter Peter Briggs, who speaks briefly about his feelings on 'Hellboy', a project which he was credited with writing the initial draft for:
Mr. D: As the person on the movie with the longest emotional connection to the movie, how did it feel seeing material that wasn't your own on the screen?
Briggs: Well, it's not the first time. "Judge Dredd", "Freddy vs Jason," whatever. You sit there in the theater and just grind your teeth in the dark. Even on something like "Hellboy", where all that material I sat and bashed out on my Powerbook is actually up there for all the world, it's difficult to get a sense... you sit there with a detached air, going "Mine, mine, Guillermo's, mine, Guillermo's..."
Mr. D: So, about "Hellboy"?
Briggs: Well. I thought Guillermo did a pretty decent job of it. It was nice to see so much of what I wrote in the movie. He was very nice to me at the L.A. premier. I recently recorded an hour or so of documentary footage on the Sony lot for the upcoming second Director's Cut DVD of "Hellboy", to talk in detail about what got jettisoned from my early work on that, and what I uniquely created aside from Mike Mignola's comic books that's in there. Unfortunately, I've just discovered from Javier, the DVD's producer, that for whatever bizarre reason best known to Sony, it won't make the cut this time around. It's a shame, especially as I made a decision early on, for a couple of reasons, that I really didn't want to do any press on "Hellboy", and this would have been the one opportunity to set that particular record straight. I had some nifty storyboards made up by a very good friend of mine -- John Kelly, who's an award-winning artist who works on some of the Lucasfilm "Star Wars" books -- illustrating a couple of my scenes that were dropped from the movie, like the Nazis arriving on the island at the beginning by Flying Wing. Javier was going to put those on the DVD, but it looks like likely they'll never see the light of day, now.
Hit the link for the full interview, including some very interesting segments about the recently released 'Alien vs. Predator'. |
