Earlier this month, "Hellboy" star Ron Perlman took to Twitter to rally fans around the long languishing "Hellboy 3" film, a Tweet which has since garnered over 20,000 retweets and 15,000 favorites. In a recent interview with Digital Spy, he discussed his rallying cry for the film, the fans' response and why he won't turn to crowdfunding.

"I don't have any news for you, but there's always a chance," Perlman said of the film's chances at getting greenlit. "I'm getting to that age where, if I waited much longer, 'Hellboy 3' will be performed out of a wheelchair. So I was basically trying to say, if there's going to be this thing, it should be sooner rather than later."

However, Perlman has no plans to turn to crowdfunding to help get this project off the ground, despite his urgency to get production started. "I wouldn't want to be involved in a crowdfunding. I don't think it's the fans' job to fund a movie; I think it's up to the people who do it professionally. I think it's the fans' job to sit back and buy popcorn and Coke and watch a movie and enjoy it."

On the potential plot of the third film, he shared, "'Hellboy 3' was designed to resolve the dilemma of whether the Beast of the Apocalypse was going to, in fact, live up to his oracle, his destiny of destroying mankind, or whether the Beast that we've seen nurtured over the years has taken his immense superpower and used it in the opposite way, to protect mankind. Which one will will out? The destiny part of it is irreversible and nonnegotiable, so something rather dramatic has to happen in the third movie to find out which Hellboy prevails."

Created by Mike Mignola at Dark Horse Comics, "Hellboy" was adapted to film by director Guillermo del Toro and starred Perlman, Doug Jones and Selma Blair.