Following the recent casting of Jack Kesy as Hellboy, Millennium Media has officially announced the addition of Yellowstone actor Jefferson White and Adeline Rudolph (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) in the upcoming The Crooked Man movie. White and Rudolph have been tapped to portray the respective roles of Tom Ferrell and Bobbie Jo Song in the live-action Hellboy reboot.
The Crooked Man is directed by Brian Taylor (Crank) from a screenplay written by Hellboy comic book creator Mike Mignola and Chris Golden. The film is based on the Eisner Award-winning comic book of the same name which debuted in July 2008 to correspond with the cinema release of Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
“Stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia, Hellboy, and a rookie BPRD agent discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy’s past: the Crooked Man,” reads the film’s synopsis.
The film hails from Millennium Media, Dark Horse Entertainment, A Nu Boyana Production, and Campbell Grobman Film. It is produced by Mike Richardson, Jeffrey Greenstein, Jonathan Yunger, Les Weldon, Rob Van Norden, Sam Schulte, and Yariv Lerner. Executive producers are Mike Mignola, Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson, Tanner Mobley, Lati Grobman, Christa Campbell, Michael Muellner, and Julia Muentefering.