Guillermo del Toro 'unlikely' to make 'Hellboy 3'

Hellboy creator and writer Mike Mignola has said that he can't imagine that Guillermo del Toro will ever get around to making a third entry in the popular film franchise.

del Toro directed both the 2004 original Hellboy and its 2008 sequel Hellboy 2, but Mignola revealed that the director's hectic work schedule will likely prevent anther entry from happening.

"Last I heard, he said he would not make it," Mignola told Daily Blam at this weekend's Calgary Comics Expo.

"Guillermo, who I love, in every interview there's a new story on what his next movie is and he honestly believes he's going to do all these things," the writer explained. "But last I heard he said, 'I'm never gonna get back to Hellboy'.

"I'm not surprised because he won't live long enough to do a tenth of the movies he's told me he's going to make."

The first two Hellboy films starred Ron Perlman as the titular superhero, opposite the likes of Selma Blair, Doug Jones and Jeffrey Tambor.

Both films were critically well-received, with Hellboy grossing a total of around $99 million and Hellboy 2: The Golden Army outperforming the original with a gross revenue of around $160 million.

Perlman himself said earlier this year that, as far as he was concerned, there had been no word on a potential third Hellboy outing.