7) Hellboy 3
What is it?
A trilogy-capper for Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy series, following on from 2008’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Like previous installments, Hellboy 3 will star Ron Perlman in the title role, and will presumably also feature Selma Blair and Doug Jones as Hellboy’s crime-fighting associates Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien, respectively.
Why it could escape development hell:
Admittedly, the window for shooting is pretty small and becoming smaller – del Toro has a packed schedule, and Ron Perlman, at 65-years-old, has himself admitted there aren’t many years left where he can physically do what’s required for another Hellboy movie – but both del Toro and Perlman continue to tease that the movie will some day happen.
Only this year, Perlman was talking about Hellboy 3, and since Hellboy II seven years ago, comic book movies have only become more popular; as has del Toro, someone who’s proven he can get a sequel off the ground in no time at all, even when the previous effort grossed fairly low (see: Pacific Rim 2).