Seems Del Toro is sticking to his guns, ne? As usual, this is from

the scifiwire website.

- Nan [Dibble]

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Wed Apr 24, 3:32 AM ET

By Michael Fleming

NEW YORK (Variety) - A $60 million feature version of "Hellboy," the

Dark Horse Comics tale about a red-skinned giant with a metallic left

hand who looks like the devil, has received the green light at

Sony-based Revolution Studios.

Guillermo del Toro, who recently shot the New Line hit "Blade II,"

will direct from his own adaptation, making the action film his next

picture. Ron Perlman is being eyed to star as the title character.

In the comic by Mike Mignola, Hellboy was hatched by occult-obsessed

Nazis who planned to unleash a hellacious weapon on their enemies.

The Nazis were thwarted, and the resulting being has become a force

for good, an investigator for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and

Development who regularly finds himself battling werewolves, vampires

and other unsavory foes.

The picture has originally set up at Universal, which cooled on the

project when hopes of enlisting its "The Fast and the Furious" and

"Pitch Black" star Vin Diesel were dashed.

But del Toro has plenty of momentum himself after "Blade II" grossed

$32.5 million in its first weekend last month. Studios all over

Hollywood offered him projects. While DreamWorks quickly set up an

adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountain of Madness," and Fox

and James Cameron's Lightstorm are developing the horror film

"Coffin" for del Toro to direct, the filmmaker wanted his next film

to be "Hellboy," come hell or high water.