PRESS RELEASE: The hellish comic book hero Hellboy is being
made into a movie directed by Guillermo del Toro and which will
be adapted to book form by author Yvonne
Navarro. Del Toro directed Blade 2 and Mimic,
as well as the critically acclaimed The Devil's Backbone.
Based on the comic books of Mike Mignola, the Hellboy movie
stars Ron Perlman as the demon action hero with Selma Blair and
Rupert Evans.
Bram Stoker Award
winning novelist Yvonne Navarro has been asked to do the novelization
for the movie. The author of thirteen published novels including
AfterAge, Mirror Me, Final Impact, as well as the Species
movie novelizations, Aliens: Music of the Spears and several
Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels, Yvonne says she's very excited
about working on the project.
The novelization will
be available from Simon and Schuster in mass market paperback and
will be a must collectible for Hellboy fans as well as fans
of Yvonne Navarro, who now has five novels scheduled to be published
in 2004. Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy, is extremely happy
that Yvonne will be the writer for the novel adaptation.
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