Lionsgate will open 2019 with a superhero film, as the studio’s Summit imprint has dated “Hellboy,” featuring “Stranger Things” star David Harbour in the title role, for Jan. 11.
Summit will also release “Kin,” a sci-fi crime thriller starring “The Disaster Artist” headliner James Franco, on Aug. 31, 2018.
Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin andย Mike Richardsonย are producing “Hellboy,” which also stars Milla Jovovich and Daniel Dae Kim. Ed Skrein was originally cast in Kim’s role as Ben Daimio, who is written as Japanese-American in the comic books the film is based on.
In April, “Hellboy” creator Mike Mignolaย announced the R-rated rebootย of the franchise with Neilย Marshallย (“The Descent”) as the helmer of the project.