Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Guillermo del Toro

Writers (WGA):

Guillermo del Toro (screenplay)
Guillermo del Toro (story) ...
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Release Date:

11 July 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy

Tagline:

Saving the world is a hell of a job

Plot:

The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures.

Plot Keywords:

Prince | Outcast | 1950s | Goggles | Auction

Awards:

1 nomination

US Showtimes:

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Cast

Ron Perlman	...	Hellboy
Selma Blair	...	Liz Sherman
Doug Jones	...	Abe Sapien / The Chamberlain / The Angel of Death
James Dodd	...	Johann Krauss
Jeffrey Tambor	...	Tom Manning
John Alexander	...	Johann Krauss
Luke Goss	...	Prince Nuada
Anna Walton	...	Princess Nuala
Seth MacFarlane	...	Johann Krauss (voice)
John Hurt	...	Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm
Brian Steele	...	Mr. Wink / Cronie Troll / Cathedral Head / Fragglewump
Andrew Hefler	...	Agent Flint
Iván Kamarás	...	Agent Steel
Mike Kelly	...	Agent Marble
Jeremy Zimmerman	...	Auctioneer
Roy Dotrice	...	King Balor
Aidan Cook	...	Two-Headed Shop Owner
Jeanne Mockford	...	Bag Lady
Montse Ribé	...	Young Hellboy
Ferenc Elek	...	Fat Slob
Alex McSweeney	...	Policeman #1
Justin Pierre	...	Policeman #2
Matthew O'Toole	...	Limb Vendor
Jamie Wilson	...	Cat Vendor
Kevin Hudson	...	Organ Grinder
Clive Llewellyn	...	Tadpole Vendor
Sándor Svigelj	...	Bagpipe Player
Brian Herring	...	Silkard / Fish Vendor
Pálma Pásztor	...	Mummy Vendor
Jimmy Kimmel	...	Himself
Tim Flavin	...	Newscaster #1
Belinda Henley	...	Newscaster #2
Blake Perlman	...	Female Newscaster #3
Matt Rippy	...	Newscaster #4
Judit Viktor	...	Lady with Dog
Szonja Oroszlán	...	Woman with Baby
Michael Mehlmann	...	Auction Bidder Man #1 (as Michael A. Mehlmann)
Todd Williams	...	Auction Bidder Man #2
Beatrice Zentai	...	Auction Bidder Woman (as Beatrix Zentai)
Péter Horkay	...	Steward
Richard Rifkin	...	TV Pundit
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Colin Ford	...	Young Hellboy (voice)
Tim Larsen	...	Street thug (uncredited)

Directed by
Guillermo del Toro

Writing credits (WGA)
Guillermo del Toro		(screenplay)
Guillermo del Toro		(story) &
Mike Mignola		(story)
Mike Mignola		(comic book)

Produced by
Lawrence Gordon	....	producer
Lloyd Levin	....	producer
Mike Mignola	....	co-producer
Mike Richardson	....	producer
Joe Roth	....	producer
John Swallow	....	co-producer
Chris Symes	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Danny Elfman

Cinematography by
Guillermo Navarro

Film Editing by
Bernat Vilaplana

Casting by
Zsolt Csutak
Jeremy Zimmerman

Production Design by
Stephen Scott

Art Direction by
Anthony Caron-Delion
Peter Francis		(supervising art director)
John Frankish
Paul Laugier
Mark Swain
Judit Varga

Set Decoration by
Elli Griff
Zsuzsa Mihalek

Costume Design by
Sammy Sheldon

Makeup Department
Orso Balla	....	special makeup effects artist
Tímea Baráth	....	makeup artist assistant
Roland Blancaflor	....	prosthetic department supervisor/speciality costumes
Dave Bonneywell	....	special makeup effects artist
Eta Csabavölgyi	....	prosthetic makeup artist
Mike Elizalde	....	makeup designer
Thomas Floutz	....	special makeup effects artist
Andy Garner	....	special makeup effects artist
Mélanie Gerbeaux	....	hair stylist
Pamela Goldammer	....	prosthetic makeup artist
Eszter Horváth	....	prosthetic makeup artist
Louis Kiss	....	special makeup effects artist
Tim Larsen	....	special makeup effects artist
David Martí	....	special makeup
Clayton Martinez	....	makeup effects technician
Bart Mixon	....	special makeup effects artist
Ian Morse	....	special makeup effects artist
Sylvia Nava	....	hair department: Spectral Motion
James Ojala	....	special makeup effects crew: Spectral Motion
Steve Painter	....	special makeup effects artist
Anthony Parker	....	special makeup effects artist
Cristina Patterson Ceret	....	contact lens coordinator/painter: Spectral Motion (as Cristina Patterson)
Iván Pohárnok	....	creature effects artist
Robin Pritchard	....	prosthetic makeup artist
Karen Purvis	....	prosthetic makeup artist
Montse Ribé	....	special makeup effects artist
Yoichi Art Sakamoto	....	special effects prosthetics
Lesley Smith	....	chief hair stylist
Lesley Smith	....	chief makeup artist
Mario Torres Jr.	....	key sculptor
Arjen Tuiten	....	key sculptor: DDT
Simon Webber	....	prosthetic makeup artist
Michael B. Williams	....	prosthetic department
Hiroshi Yada	....	special makeup effects crew: Spectral Motion
Diana Yun Soo Yoo	....	hair department supervisor: Spectral Motion (as Diana Yunsoo Choi)

Production Management
Jo Burn	....	unit production manager
Chris Patterson	....	production manager: Ireland
Michael Solinger	....	post-production supervisor
Alessio Spinelli	....	assistant production manager: effects / video reference
Miklós Tóth	....	production manager
Gábor Ujházy	....	unit manager
Brian Walsh	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Matthew Baker	....	second assistant director
Rob Burgess	....	second assistant director
Ben Lanning	....	key second assistant director
Cliff Lanning	....	first assistant director
Tamas Lukacs	....	third assistant director: crowd
Kati Magenheim	....	second assistant director: crowd
Dénes Sajgál	....	second assistant director
Matthew Sharp	....	second assistant director: prep
Nick Starr	....	third assistant director

Art Department
Wayne D. Barlowe	....	visual designer
Guy Bevitt	....	art department assistant
Graham Bishop	....	production buyer
Oliver Carroll	....	model maker
Will Coubrough	....	draftsman
Jordan Crockett	....	draughtsman
Judit Csák	....	assistant art director
Gábor Csiki	....	propmaker
Gergely Dömölki	....	model maker
David Doran	....	draughtsman
TyRuben Ellingson	....	visual designer
Oliver Goodier	....	draughtsman
Collin Grant	....	storyboard artist
Zsuzsa Kismarty-Lechner	....	assistant art director
Attila Kiss	....	stand-by props
Zoltán Kiss	....	sculptor
Rene Knol	....	supervising dressing prop
Mike Mignola	....	visual designer
Alexandra Miklos	....	graphic artist
Raúl Monge	....	storyboard artist
Mily Moreno	....	assistant set decorator
László Nagyidai Jr.	....	construction coordinator
Heather Noble	....	art department coordinator: prep
Szabolcs-Levente Olvedi	....	model maker
Francis Poirier	....	sculptor
Heather Pollington	....	graphic artist
Stefan Priehyba	....	propmaker
Graeme Purdy	....	property master
Mark Rimmell	....	props buyer
John Roberts	....	supervising painter
Josh Sheppard	....	storyboard artist
Roland Stevenson	....	supervising propmaker
Lajos E. Szabó	....	stand-by painter: second unit
Zoltán Szalkai	....	storeman
Béla Tollay	....	stand-by props
Francisco Ruiz Velasco	....	visual designer
Tom Whitehead	....	draughtsman
Tracey Wilson	....	storyboard artist
Raul Villares	....	storyboard artist (uncredited)

Sound Department
Julie Altus	....	adr recordist
Philippe Amouroux	....	foley recordist
Dafydd Archard	....	sound studio assistant
Harry Barnes	....	sound editor
Christopher Barnett	....	sound designer
Nicolas Becker	....	foley artist
Tom Bellfort	....	supervising dialogue & adr editor
Rachel Boot	....	sound studio assistant
James Boyle	....	additional sound designer
Peter Burgis	....	foley artist
Martin Cantwell	....	sound designer
Ed Colyer	....	foley mixer
Doug Cooper	....	sound mix technician
Tony Currie	....	sound editor
Nick Del-Molino	....	studio assistant
Dominique Devoucoux	....	sound effects editor
Sergio Diaz	....	co-sound supervisor
Sergio Diaz	....	first dialog editor
Florian Fabre	....	assistant foley artist
Nick Foley	....	adr mixer
Glen Gathard	....	assistant foley mixer
Scott Martin Gershin	....	sound designer
Scott Martin Gershin	....	supervising sound editor
Nerses Gezalyan	....	foley mixer
Rick Gould	....	adr recorder
Zane Hayward	....	additional sound effects editor
Martín Hernández	....	sound designer
Martín Hernández	....	supervising sound editor
Hugo Jeffreys	....	adr recordist
Michael Keller	....	sound re-recording mixer
Mark Lafbery	....	foley mixer
Diane Marshall	....	foley artist
Markus Moll	....	sound mix technician
James Moriana	....	foley artist
Mike Prestwood Smith	....	sound re-recording mixer
Alejandro Quevedo	....	sound effects supervisor
Stephen P. Robinson	....	sound designer
Naiki Rossell	....	dialogue editor
Mac Ruth	....	production sound mixer
David Stanke	....	first assistant sound editor
Greg Steele	....	adr mixer
Jack Stew	....	foley artist
Chris Sturmer	....	sound consultant: dolby
Pál Szûrös	....	boom operator
Oliver Tarney	....	sound effects editor
Vanesa Lorena Tate	....	sound effects editor
Mark Taylor	....	sound re-recording mixer
Roland N. Thai	....	sound designer
Jeffrey Wilhoit	....	foley artist
Christopher Wilson	....	foley editor
David Young	....	sound editorial engineer
Greg Zimmerman	....	adr recordist
Peter Zinda	....	sound designer
Andrew Caller	....	sound mix technician (uncredited)
Mark Sheffield	....	sound mix technician (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Matthew G. Armstrong	....	special effects technician
Csaba Bagossy	....	special effects coordinator
Brent Baker	....	mold department and life-casting supervisor: Spectral Motion
Tom Blake	....	animatronic designer
Darin Bouyssou	....	creature effects technician: Spectral Motion Inc.
Leo Burton	....	special effects supervisor: Solution Studios
Brian Clawson	....	foam patcher: Spectral Motion
Ricardo Contreras	....	puppeteer
Sam Conway	....	special effects technician
Michael Dawson	....	special effects assistant supervisor
Manex Efrem	....	special effects assistant supervisor
Mary Elizalde	....	CFO: Spectral Motion Inc.
Chris Fitzgerald	....	creature painter
Peter Hawkins	....	creature effects
Jurgen Heimann	....	mechanical department: Spectral Motion Studios Inc.
Bjorn Henriksson	....	special effects
Andy Hunt	....	sculptor: solution studio
Steve Knowles	....	special effects technician
Steve Koch	....	sculptor: Spectral Motion Inc.
Jason Leinster	....	senior technician: wires
Jess Lewington	....	special effects coordinator
Russell Lukich	....	creature paint designer: Spectral Motion
Russell Lukich	....	special effects makeup sculptor: Spectral Motion
Bob Mano	....	key mechanical designer: Spectral Motion Inc.
Kevin McTurk	....	special effects makeup: Spectral Motion
Huw Millar	....	special effects technician
Jordi Morera	....	special effects makeup: DDT SFX Crew
Neil Murray	....	special effects wireman (as Neal Murray)
Pablo Perona Navarro	....	special effects makeup: DDT SFX Team
John Nolan	....	animatronic designer
Peter Norcliffe	....	costume props: Ivo Coveney
Larry Odien	....	animatronics designer: Spectral Motion
László Pintér	....	special effects technician
Lee Rider	....	special effects technician
Juan Serrano	....	special effects technician: DDT SFX
Mark Setrakian	....	key animatronic designer
Keith Shannon	....	special effects technician
Colin Shulver	....	sculptor: Solution Studios
David Simon	....	sculptor
Amber Skowronski	....	special effects technician: Spectral Motion, Inc.
Jeff Small	....	special effects technician
Neil Toddy Todd	....	special effects technician
Cliff Wallace	....	special effects makeup designer
Jill Warner	....	special effects assistant
Mark White	....	special effects technician
Joss Williams	....	special effects supervisor
Richard Darwin	....	special effects technician (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Christoph Ammann	....	3D sequence supervisor: Double Negative
Christopher Anciaume	....	matchmove artist: Double Negative
Martin Casper Andersen	....	visual effects
Arild Anfinnsen	....	visual effects artist
Michael Atkin	....	lead matchmove artist: Double Negative
Sergio Ayrosa	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Cheryl Bainum	....	executive producer: HATCH
Kamilla Bak	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Tim Baxter	....	scanning manager
Andy Bean	....	digital effects artist
William Beaton	....	visual effects scanning supervisor
Anders J.L. Beer	....	sequence supervisor
Jo Ann Cordero Belen	....	roto artist: Double Negative
Stephen Bennett	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
James Benson	....	digital artist: Double Negative
Frank Berbert	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Petter Bergmark	....	technical director: Double Negative
Brendan Body	....	animator: Double Negative
Tom Bracht	....	character rigger: Double Negative
Tom Bracht	....	character technical director: Double Negative
Andre Braithwaite	....	animator
Paul Brannan	....	lighting technical director: Double Negative
Jamie Briens	....	technical director: Double Negative
Andre Brizard	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Jonathan Brooker	....	technical director: Baseblack
Mikael Brosset	....	visual effects: Double Negative
Nik Brownlee	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Ole Bukowsky	....	animator
Astrid Busser-Casas	....	digital compositor
Luke Butler	....	digital compositor: lipsync
Robert Byrne	....	senior technical director
Daniel Cairnie	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Ean Carr	....	digital compositor
Kun Chang	....	concept artist: Ghost
Andrew Chapman	....	digital effects supervisor: Double Negative
Paul Charisse	....	animator
Jeppe N. Christensen	....	visual effects supervisor
Kia Coates	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Debra Coleman	....	digital compositor
Richard Collis	....	digital effects artist
Loraine Cooper	....	compositor
Ian Copeland	....	digital compositor
Christopher Cram	....	visual effects consultant
Craig Crane	....	animation technical director: Double Negative
Ed Cross	....	visual effects editorial: Double Negative
Tyson Cross	....	technical director: Double Negative
Neil Culley	....	lead compositor: LipSync Post
Nick Dacey	....	assistant visual effects editor: Double Negative
Aimee Dadswell-Davies	....	Visual Effects Producer: Cinesite
Nick D'Aguiar	....	digital compositor: Lipsync Post
Marcello Da Silva	....	matchmove artist: Double Negative
Markus Daum	....	character rigger
Markus Daum	....	tools developer
Jay N. Davis	....	sequence supervisor
Martin R. Davison	....	sequence lead: Baseblack
Yoshi DeHerrera	....	3D laser scanning
Adrian De Wet	....	digital effects supervisor: Double Negative
Ian Differ	....	visual effects editor
Markus Drayss	....	digital effects artist
Stefan Drury	....	head of visual effects: LipSync Post
Hasraf Dulull	....	digital compositor
Bronwyn Edwards	....	compositor
Mohamed Effandi	....	matchmove artist: Double Negative
Yasmine El-Ghamrawy	....	digital compositor
Erik Ellefsen	....	technical director: Baseblack
Jane Ellis	....	visual effects coordinator: Baseblack
Will Elsdale	....	digital artist: Double Negative
Stephen Elson	....	visual effects producer: Baseblack
Mattias Engström	....	matchmove artist: double negative
Kenneth Fanning	....	matchmove artist: Double Negative
Deak Ferrand	....	concept artist: HATCH
Deak Ferrand	....	matte painter: HATCH
Deak Ferrand	....	visual effects designer: HATCH
Antonella Ferrari	....	visual effects coordinator: Double Negative
Dominique Fiore	....	digital artist: The Senate VFX
Andrew Fletcher	....	digital artist: The Senate VFX
Joss Flores	....	digital compositor: Baseblack
Nicola Fontana	....	digital artist: Double Negative
James Foster	....	digital compositor
Mike Foyle	....	digital effects artist
Gianfranco Gaioni	....	digital artist: Cinesite
John J. Galloway	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Steve Garrad	....	Visual Effects Producer: Double Negative
Adam Gefen	....	digital compositor: Baseblack
Walter Gilbert	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Ben Goodson	....	digital compositor
Ben Goodson	....	digital compositor: LipSync Post
Azzard Gordon	....	digital matchmove artist: Double Negative
Dianne Gordon	....	data operations manager: Cinesite
Kim Gordon	....	digital compositor: LipSync Post
Yanni Goudetsidis	....	systems engineer: LipSync Post
Elizabeth Gray	....	visual effects animator: Double Negative
Elysia Greening	....	digital compositor: Baseblack
Tom Griffiths	....	digital artist: Double Negative
David Gurrea	....	texture artist: double negative
Sascha Alexander Haber	....	digital colourist: puppet sequence
Alexis Hall	....	digital effects artist
Adam Hammond	....	roto/prep artist: Double Negative
Nick Hanks	....	CG artist: Lipsync Post
Pete Hanson	....	studio manager: Double Negative
Mick Harper	....	digital artist: The Senate VFX
Jonathan Harris	....	digital compositor: LipSync Post
Gavin Harrison	....	technical director: Double Negative
Chris Hart	....	studio assistant: Double Negative
Lionel Heath	....	compositor: Double Negative
Kieron Helsdon	....	previs supervisor
Kieron Helsdon	....	senior technical director: lighting
Kieron Helsdon	....	visual effects: Double Negative
Robert Hemmings	....	animator
Sarah Hemsley	....	visual effects producer: The Senate VFX
Aeon Henderson	....	digital compositor
Grant Hewlett	....	technical director: Baseblack
Richard Higham	....	digital supervisor: The Senate VFX
Noel Hocquet	....	technical director: Double Negative
Garrett Honn	....	digital compositor: Baseblack
David Hubert	....	visual effects
Graham Hudson	....	digital artist
Florian Hu	....	visual effects technical director
Changeui Im	....	visual effects
Ludovic Iochem	....	matte painter: Double Negative
Jonna Isotalus	....	digital compositor: LipSync Post
Matthew Jacques	....	compositor
Mikael Johannesen	....	digital artist
Mikael Johannesen	....	effects animation
Alexander Kaminski	....	research & development technical director: Double Negative
Rafal Kaniewski	....	digital compositor
Arne Kaupang	....	animator
John Kay	....	3D animator
Uzma Khalid	....	senior lighting artist
Lucy Killick	....	visual effects producer
Christopher Kilshaw	....	visual effects technical director
Duncan Kinnaird	....	digital artist: The Senate VFX
Jonathan Knight	....	digital compositor: visual effects: Double Negative
Philip Koch	....	senior creature modeller
Marcin Kolendo	....	digital artist
Dean Koonjul	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
John Kozak	....	r&d support: Baseblack
Benjamin Krebs	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Danius Kvedaras	....	character rigger: Double Negative
Duncan Kuah Boon Kwang	....	matchmove artist: Double Negative
Paul Ladd	....	senior visual effects coordinator: Universal
Serena Lam	....	digital compositor
Stafford Lawrence	....	animator
Isaac Layish	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Simon Leech	....	digital artist: The Senate VFX
Chris Lee Soon Ngee	....	roto artist: Double Negative
Soon Ngee Chris Lee	....	roto/prep artist: Double Negative
Luke Letkey	....	digital compositor
May Leung	....	senior effects artist
James Lewis	....	animator
Darryl Li	....	visual effects coordinator: Double Negative
Alfred Lindahl	....	character setup artist
Richard Little	....	digital compositor: Baseblack
Thomas Luff	....	roto artist: Double Negative
Natalie MacDonald	....	digital artist: The Senate VFX
Aysha Madina	....	animator
Vaibhav Marathe	....	digital compositor: Baseblack
Jan Maroske	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Mark Masson	....	sequence lead: Double Negative
Colin McEvoy	....	animation lead
James McPherson	....	roto artist: Double Negative
Gurel Mehmet	....	concept artist: Double Negative
Craig Mepham	....	animator
Ana Mestre	....	roto/prep artist: Double Negative
Andre Metello	....	character technical director
Thomas Middleton	....	roto/prep artist: Double Negative
Neil Miller	....	lead matte painter: double Negative
Sangita Mistry	....	paint/roto artist: Double Negative
Dele Momoh	....	visual effects artist: Double Negative
Alberto Montañés	....	digital compositor: Cinesite
Fernanda Moreno	....	CG artist: Double Negative
Andrew Morley	....	visual effects supervisor: LipSync Post
Martin Mueller	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Thierry Muller	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Tristan Myles	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Patrick Nagle	....	compositor
Csaba Nemesházi	....	visual effects
Nick New	....	technical director
James Nicholl	....	cg artist: LipSync Post
Thomas Øhlenschlæger	....	digital compositor: Ghost
Gruff Owen	....	digital compositor
Graham Page	....	digital compositor
Ami Patel	....	digital compositor
Tilman Paulin	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Daniel Paulsson	....	texture artist
Venetia Penna	....	digital artist: Cinesite
Ben Perrott	....	digital artist: Cinesite
Daniel Pettipher	....	production manager: Cinesite
Adrian Pinder	....	cloth supervisor: DNeg
Andy Pinson	....	roto artist
Henriette Plum	....	animator
Carlos Poon	....	technical director: Double Negative
Kate Porter	....	digital compositor: LipSync Post
Glen Pratt	....	digital compositor: LipSync Post
Scott Pritchard	....	digital compositor: Double Negative
Jacqui Purkess	....	roto & cleanup
Nigel Rafter	....	animator
Edward Randolph	....	visual effects coordinator: Baseblack
Richard R. Reed	....	digital compositor: Double Negitive
Garth Reilly	....	digital compositor: LipSync Post
Julia Reinhard	....	compositing lead: Double Negative
Tina Richardson	....	assistant visual effects editor
Viktor Rietveld	....	digital effects artist: Double Negative
Lauren