Hellboy: Sword of Storms
| Hellboy: Sword of Storms | |
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| Based on |
Hellboy by Mike Mignola |
| Screenplay by |
Matt Wayne Tad Stones |
| Story by | Mike Mignola Tad Stones |
| Directed by | Phil Weinstein Tad Stones |
| Starring |
Ron Perlman Selma Blair Doug Jones Peri Gilpin |
| Theme music composer | Christopher Drake |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Sidney Clifton Scott D. Greenberg Guillermo del Toro Mike Mignola |
| Editor(s) | John Hoyos Jeffrey Perlmutter |
| Running time | 77 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Film Roman Madhouse DR Movie Revolution Studios |
| Distributor | Starz Distribution |
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Hellboy: Sword of Storms is the first of the Hellboy Animated series based on Mike Mignola's popular comic book series Hellboy and the live-action film of the same name. It was released in 2006 on DVD and premiered that later same year on Cartoon Network. The second animated straight-to-DVD film, Hellboy: Blood and Iron, was released on 17 March 2007.
The film was produced by Starz Media's Film Roman and Revolution Pictures and co-produced, co-written, and directed by animation veteran Tad Stones. Stones is perhaps best known as the creator of the popular Disney Afternoon series Darkwing Duck. He worked with Mignola on developing Atlantis: The Lost Empire into an animated series.
Hellboy: Sword of Storms was nominated for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More) at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards.
The film starts in the middle of an unspecified mission which sees Hellboy, Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien battling bat-worshipping Mayan zombies who are led by a gigantic zombie bat. The group are eventually able to defeat their opponents when Liz unleashes her pyrokinetic powers, although she is still unsure of her ability to control her powers.
Meanwhile, Japanese folklore expert Professor Sakai obtains an ancient scroll containing the myth of two demonic brothers, Thunder and Lightning. Hundreds of years ago, the brothers roamed the earth, unleashing storms on the lands of a Japanese Lord. In exchange for mercy, the Lord promised to give them his beautiful daughter. One of the Lord's samurai warriors was in love with the daughter and hid her in a shrine to protect her. Armed with the Sword of Storms, a mystical sword imbued with an ancient spell to defeat Thunder and Lightning, the warrior fought the brothers and trapped both demons' spirits in the sword. Although his lands and daughter had been saved, the Lord was not pleased since the warrior's actions meant the Lord had broken a promise. In an act of vengeance, the Lord summoned the gods to turn the warrior to stone and then killed his daughter in the shrine.
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