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I’m going to let this speak for itself: Hellboy 2!

Doug Jones, who played Abe Sapien in Hellboy, told SCI FI Wire that his role in a proposed Hellboy 2 will be expanded and that he will likely use his own voice, unlike the first movie. “The role of Abe Sapien will be beefed up quite a bit for part two,” Jones said in an interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego over the weekend. “The relationship with Hellboy is going to be more fleshed out. … The buddy thing … and conflicts that arise with him are going to be more explored, which I’m very excited about. Abe gets more interaction with bad guys … [and] has another little sub-storyline that I think is going to be delicious. I don’t want to give anything way, but it’s going to be a very, very exciting movie to make.”

Though Jones played the amphibious Sapien in the first Hellboy movie, the character’s voice was dubbed by an uncredited David Hyde Pierce. But Jones will provide the character’s voice in the sequel, he said. Jones has already voiced Abe Sapien in the upcoming animated series. “There’s the animated version of Hellboy coming out on DVD in February and … airing on the Cartoon Network in October,” Jones said. He added: “We’ve already done two [animated] featurettes of Hellboy, … [and] I was able to come back and voice the role of Abe Sapien for that. And [director] Guillermo [del Toro] has now … mentioned publicly that I will be voicing Abe Sapien in the sequel as well.” Hellboy 2 is still in development but has not yet found financing.

You can see more on Hellboy Animated here, here and here.

In the meantime, if you’re a fan of Hellboy, please join me in prayer that they find financing.

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