Was there ever a time where you didn think there was going to be a Hellboy 2?
Del Toro: No. I really think that the problem with this is that we knew we wanted to make a much bigger movie, but nowadays the movies that are of real size – when we were making the first one, a big movie was about $96, $97, $100, $105 and we did the first one for $60 something million. Now a big movie is what? Over $200 million. If you see any of the big franchises they’re over $200 million and so forth and the problem that we have is that we have truly tragic international and we did very, very well on DVD which was our saving grace, but we knew that the range wasn’t as wide to make it. So there were many times that I doubted and the scope of the screenplay kept changing. It started with my letter to Santa Claus with all the action and all the set pieces and everything and it was a pretty long letter. Then you get to go through the process and I kept the key elements and lost a couple that I really, really liked. But it was nothing mortal. I doubted it many times though, yeah. Was t
