The Crooked Man Image Offers Best Look Yet at Jack Kesy in Title Role

Hellboy stands tall in the latest look at this year’s reboot, Hellboy: The Crooked Man. Following the surprise drop of the first trailer for the comic book movie reimagining, a new image has now been unveiled, and shows The Strain and Without Remorse actor Jack Kesy in all his glory, and with The Right Hand of Doom intact, as the latest iteration of the titular Hellboy.

Smoking a cigar and sporting the red skin, filed-down horns, and trench coat that fans have come to know and love, the images reveals our best look yet at the character’s portrayal in The Crooked Man. While the reboot will seemingly depict a slightly more human-looking (as human as Hellboy can get, anyway) version of the comic character, dropping the demonic yellow eyes, the image does reveal that his big stone hand, The Right Hand of Doom, will look exactly as it should.

You can check out the official new image of Hellboy from Hellboy: The Crooked Man below, courtesy of Ketchup Entertainment.

Directed by Brian Taylor (Crank, Happy!), from a screenplay by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden based on The Crooked Man limited series written by Mignola, Hellboy: The Crooked Man stars 12 Strong actor Jack Kesy as the titular Hellboy alongside Adeline Rudolph (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Resident Evil) as Bobbie Jo Song, Jefferson White (Yellowstone) as Tom Ferrel, Leah McNamara (The Gentlemen) as Effie Kolb, Joseph Marcell (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) as Reverend Watts, Hannah Margetson as Cora Fisher, and Martin Bassindale (Masters of the Air) as the Crooked Man.

Hellboy Creator Promises The Crooked Man Is ‘A Horror Movie’

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola has been heavily involved in the making of Hellboy: The Crooked Man, assisting with the screenplay. The writer promises that, this time around, the reboot will be a straight-up “horror movie” and is “definitely R” rated. He revealed to Variety…

“His intention is to make a horror movie, so that’ll be nice. That’ll be interesting. I read the new draft of the screenplay yesterday, and yes, it is definitely R. It’s the first Hellboy script that I read and I went, ‘Oh, it’s a horror movie,’ which is what I wanted. Taylor does not have a reputation as a horror movie director. But, so far, we’ve had two horror movie directors make Hellboy movies and we’ve never gotten a horror movie.

For years, we’ve been saying, if you’re going to make a Hellboy movie, make it small. And the perfect story to do that with is my personal favorite, ‘The Crooked Man.’ I think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever written. It’s beautifully illustrated by Richard Corben, and it’s a solid story that doesn’t involve a million different characters. Everybody actually agreed from the very beginning, ‘Yes, we want to do that one.’ Budget-wise, it’s good because it’s a lower budget kind of a story. It’s not the Hellboy origin. It’s not Hellboy saving the world. It’s not huge. It’s a subtle, dark, little folk horror story.”

You can also check out the official synopsis for the Hellboy reboot below.

“In the 1950s, Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent, stranded in rural Appalachia, discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy’s past: The Crooked Man.”