Hellboy: Blood and Iron | |
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Based on | |
Screenplay by | Kevin Hopps |
Story by | Mike Mignola Tad Stones |
Directed by | Victor Cook |
Starring | Ron Perlman Selma Blair Doug Jones John Hurt Cree Summer Peri Gilpin Kath Soucie Jim Cummings |
Composer | Christopher Drake |
Country of origin | United States Japan |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Lawrence Gordon Mike Richardson Lloyd Levin Stephen Brown Morris Berger John W. Hyde |
Producers | Scott D. Greenberg Scott Hemming Sidney Clifton Guillermo del Toro (creative) Mike Mignola (creative) |
Editor | Matt Steinauer |
Running time | 75 minutes |
Production companies | Starz Media Revolution Studios Film Roman Madhouse |
Original release | |
Release | March 10, 2007 |
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Hellboy: Blood and Iron is the second film in the Hellboy Animated series (the first being Hellboy: Sword of Storms), written by Tad Stones and Mike Mignola. It first aired on March 10, 2007 on Cartoon Network, and aired again on July 19, 2008 to promote the release of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and was released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment on June 12, 2007. The film's storyline is based in part upon the Hellboy: Wake the Devil storyline from the original comics.[1]
The title is a reference to Otto von Bismarck's famous "Blood and Iron speech".
Also included on the DVD is the short film Iron Shoes, which is based on the Hellboy story of the same name. The Iron Shoes demon is voiced by Dan Castellaneta.