Director Neil Marshall's 2019 Hellboy reboot was a critical and financial disappointment. Despite ending on a cliffhanger that promised the arrival of fan-favorite character Abe Sapien, it appears as if no sequel is in the works. However, makeup artist Joel Harlow revealed the hypothetical sequel would have featured an Abe Sapien very different to the one seen in the Hellboy comics and the Guillermo Del Toro films.
"The unfortunate thing is that the movie did not do very well and if it had, we would have explored Abe Sapien again," Harlow told ComicBookMovie. "There were actually a lot of creatures coming in potential sequels."
"For this one, we get a glimpse at him at the very end with that teaser with his hand but if we had done the entire character, first of all, it would be vastly different from the other films, more thug like, and we wouldn't have even have gone with that hand you see at the end of the film," he continued. "We would have designed something from scratch. That's one of the ones that, because I have an affection for fish people and fish characters, would have been really fun to work on but alas, no."
Director Neil Marshall’s Hellboy stars David Harbour as Hellboy, Ian McShane as Trevor Bruttenholm, Milla Jovovich as Nimue, Sasha Lane as Alice Monaghan, Penelope Mitchell as Ganeida and Daniel Dae Kim as Ben Daimio. It is available on digital HD, 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD now.