Abe is really important in Hellboy II. We get to see whole new side of this character. What did you think of Abe's transformation from proper gentleman to love sick friend?

That was new for the Abe Sapien character. In the first movie, he was established as an intellectual guy. He brought a certain power as the clairvoyant, the guy who could put his hand out and read things. When I read the script for Hellboy II, I almost got goose bumpy and teary eyed. What Guillermo del Toro wrote for me was a leading man, romantic role, but I'm still a fish-man freak. What a nice wonderful turn for me.

Thank goodness for Guillermo del Toro. He's one of those directors that knows actors better than we know ourselves. He knows what I'm capable of, that's why he wrote Abe the way he did. In addition to seeing that Abe Sapien had a big role this time, he also asked me to play the Angel of Death and the Chamberlain. I was saying, what? Three characters? And that sort of intimidated me, because each of those characters required 5 hours of make-up which means Doug doesn't get a lot of time off.

What new Abe moments really stuck out to you in Hellboy II? Where did we get to see the new Abe?
The scene that really grabbed my heart was with Abe Sapien and my love interest Princess Nuala from the elven underworld, when she comes into our care. Abe Sapien has this pitter-patter-of-the-heart love connection with her for the first time in his life. It's at night in the library of the B.P.R.D. and she's reading a book of poetry and he comes down the stairs and [they] read the poetry with each other. And you realize they both have a little hankering for each other, but they're both so innocent and awkward they don't know what to do about it. And it reminded me very much of myself as a teenager. Then right after that, Abe Sapien is bemoaning what to do with this new found love thing and he doesn't understand what's going on, and then Hellboy comes in having domestic issues (because [he and Liz] are a married couple, that are fighting) they have some brother-brother buddy-buddy time, leaning on each other. Hellboy brings in his six pack of beer and Abe's never had a beer before. They open one up and they're having guy time and then during that scene they start to hum along with [a CD of love songs].

Yes, Abe got plowed! Who's idea was it to have Abe be all mumbly stumbley drunk with the whispering?

It was in the script, but the way I said it was mine. Liz was asleep, and we're trying to get more beer, so we have to go to Hellboy's room. Liz is asleep on the bed and we're doing that, "I'm going to be quiet now, but actually I'm louder than I would be otherwise." I've never been drunk in my life. I don't drink, but I've observed a lot of people that were inebreated.

So you and Ron didn't get drunk to prep for this role?

No, but Ron enjoys his beer. I'm not going to lie about that, nor would he. He plays Hellboy from his heart, he is Hellboy, and I'm a little Abe Sapien, so on- and off-camera is pretty much the same.

You play a lot of sympathetic creatures as well as incredibly frightening creatures. For example, the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth was terrifying. Is it harder to play sympathetic monster over a scary monster? How is it different for you?

The more difficult acting challenges are the characters that are more ambiguous. Like the Faun from Pan's Labyrinth. When you meet Pan the Faun you're not sure if he's good or evil. There's a little bit of creepiness to him, there is also some beauty to his look. His behavior is tricky: he's a prankster, but he's also very heartfelt and nurturing at the same time. So it leaves you guessing if he's good or evil until the very end. So characters like that... In Hellboy II I also play the Angel of Death when you met the Angel of Death you get that same kind of ambiguous feeling. You don't know if it's a man or a woman. There's a scary and creepy vibe, [plus] a nurturing care-giving side. There is definitely some foretelling in that scene as to what will happen in Hellboy III, so pay close attention to the dialog. I love characters like that. It lets you play more.

How do you think what happened to Abe in this movie will change him in Hellboy III?

It might toughen him up a little bit. I think at the end of Hellboy II when we come out and have words with the head of the B.P.R.D., those words we all have with him mean a lot. You think Abe has been through a lot, and he's never talked about that way to anyone. I'm not sure what the plans are for Hellboy III. Guillermo has not shared everything. He's given some hints and it's going to be a darker film, but a Guillermo del Toro film with darkness is never without hope. It will have a ray of light and still have the characters, but it will be epic. I think we'll have a visit from the Angel of Death again as well.

Do you think there will ever be an Abe Sapien spin-off series of movies, like the comic?

You know, beats me. I don't have a clue. Everyone from fans to people involved with the movie, to people involved with the comic book... comments have been made casually, but nothing with intention attached to it. Abe is a character who has become my favorite ever. I've gotten to know him better than any other character, because I've been with him for so long. Two feature films, two animated films and a video game. To revisit him again in his own spin off or maybe a TV series it's been speculated by everyone. I think artistically and creatively it wouldn't be something I would hate to have happen.

It was great hearing your voice coming out of Abe. Was there any vindication for you being able to voice your own character for a change?

The voice issue has been a monkey for a few years. I've been voiced over about three times. Unfortunately they've been three notable times, where people think I'm always voiced over. One of which was the first [Hellboy], but now that's been rectified and it's back to my voice. David Hyde Pierce did the voice over the first time because he was the bigger name and had the more recognizable sound. When you're marketing a film, that's a part of the film-making world that I'm not a part of. David Hyde Pierce is a consummate gentleman. When he came in to do the voice over me for the first time, and he saw and heard my performance on film, he backed away and said, "why am I here?" He ending up doing the job he was hired to do, but in the end he refused to take a credit in the film, he didn't show up to the premiere and he didn't do any press for the film. When asked why his answer was, "Out of respect to Doug Jones." He didn't want to take anything away. Nobody does that in Hollywood, we're an ego-driven town. He has a very giving and humble attitude, he's become a hero of mine. I owe him a lot. When it came time to voice the characters for the Hellboy animated movies David Hyde Pierce politely declined, and they came and gave the voice to me and that set up the wold of Abe. And when negotiations were coming for Hellboy II they said, "Doug the voice is yours." I feel like the character is all mine. When I'm hired to play a character I want to play the character all of it. So thank heaven and Guillermo Del Toro and David Hyde Pierce for that.

I think with the Silver Surfer was another one of those cases where the studio had their marketing plans to attach a name like Laurence Fishburne who's huge with his Morpheus fame and the young audience that the Silver Surfer brought with it. They were doing what they needed to do to sell tickets. I don't begrudge them or blame them for that, but for me as an actor and having affected a voice for the Surfer that I loved... No matter how good Laurence Fishburne [may be] (and he's a wonderful actor), seeing that part of my performance taken away, it never feels good.

I'm really excited that Guillermo mentioned you as the actor he would want to play the monster in his Frankenstein, I think that would be an amazing role, are you excited about it?

That came as a huge surprise to me. It was at a red carpet even and he [Guillermo del Toro] had mentioned it to a journalist after he was asked. When I was told that he said that, my knees went weak and I almost fainted. I thought, "Are you kidding me?" The image that we are left with is the big lumbering Boris Karloff interpretation, which I loved and thought was brilliant and so iconic... Obviously the Frankenstein that I would play... would have a different feel to him. That's the feel that Guillermo wants to go for if he does ever get to make this film. Turns out there was some art work submitted, that was Frankenstein artwork that was based on me. If I could play a Frankenstien that looks like the fan art that I have seen, directed by my favorite director Guillermo del Toro, that would be an absolute dream job for me, hands down.

He's a tragic, sad character, a monster, yes, because of the bizarre way that he's put together, but such a tragic back story and soul that's awakened in a world where he doesn't belong. He's very lonely. That's something that we can all tap into. I would love to tap into that and bring it to the screen.

This has all been talk that's happened with Guillermo and the press and me and the press. Guillermo and I have never discussed Frankenstein.

Please tell me the Silver Surfer movie is going to happen? What's the word?

I wish I had something to tell you, it's a heartbreaker that it's gone this long without word. A year ago at Comic Con, J. Michael Straczynski the wonderful writer and creator of scifi worlds, was hired to write a script. He was talking about it freely and the intention was to have a spin-off for the Silver Surfer. I have a standard three-picture deal. Everything is in place, but it's just a matter of, Are they going to do it or not now? And the longer it goes... The script has been at the studio for over a year now, we just don't know and the longer it goes the more forgotten it might become. So that's the fear. The fans have been very vocal about wanting to see the Surfer again. I would love to crawl into his skin again and get to know him better this time.

Tell me more about your character in Legion, he's an ice cream man at the end of the world? What's an ice cream man doing there?

It's an end-of-the-world epic story staring Dennis Quaid, Paul Bettany and a host of others. It's a great great story that involves angels. It's sort of a modern day Noah's Ark story. It poses the question, Is humanity in a state that God would need to cleanse the world again, much like he did when the floods were sent?

The role I play in the film, it's a cameo, towards the end of the film. When my character shows up it's the beginning of, "Uh oh." I play a character called the Ice Cream Man. It's one scene but it's a very notable moment of the film. The Ice Cream Man sounds fun doesn't it? You have that sense but when I step out of the ice-cream truck you realize that something isn't right with this guy. It's kind of like a clown with a knife behind his back. I do a little something on film that will freak you out. I'm wearing a little uniform that an ice cream man would wear, with a little hat and bow tie.

Will your character have a biblical reference?

Not my character specifically, no, but there are Archangels. The archangel Michael is a lead character. That's who Paul Bettany plays, and there's a little bit of a showdown later and you get to meet Gabriel from the bible. There are a lot of parallels to the Noah's Ark film. Noah's Ark in this film is really a truck stop in the desert. The survivors are a bunch of every day average people that you wouldn't think were exceptionally saintly. And the flood isn't water it's more of a legion of angels from heaven who have come under God's command to do a little cleansing of Earth.
What else is in the works right now?

I did a cameo in Quarantine. It's a scary film shot reality-style with the one-camera look. It's like a Cloverfield. I'm in a moment in the film at the end where you realize this could be the guy that caused all the problems. It's a little bit of make up and a little bit of scary. It was shot hand-held with one camera. It was shot very quickly, my scene took a day.

Iron Man 2:

Thor won't be making a cameo in Iron Man 2, says director Jon Favreau. He also mentions he's seen early art from from the Captain America movie, and it looks great. [IESB]

Hellboy 2:

Variety also posted its review of Hellboy 2, and it includes some spoilers. As the movie starts, Hellboy's girlfriend Liz is pregnant, but he doesn't realize this at first. There's an early sequence where he battles a giant green forest deity, cradling a baby in his arms. We see a flashback to 1955, where Professor Broom (John Hurt) reads Hellboy more of that story about the making of the mechanical Golden Army to protect the Elves against the humans. The crown controlling the army gets split up, with one part going to the humans and two parts to the ancients.

Fifty years later, Hellboy is working for the Department of Paranormal Research and Defense. His boss wants Hellboy to be discreet and low-profile, so of course he gets thrown out of a burning building and onto a police car. It turns out the Elf Prince Nuada wants to reactivate the Golden Army, but his sister Princess Nuala hides her piece of the all-important crown. The army finally does get awakened, in Ireland, and Hellboy fights Nuada on top of a giant clockwork mechanism. [Variety]

Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3-D:

Variety also posted its early review of Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3-D, with more spoilers. Brendan Fraser plays Trevor, whose brother Max disappeared years ago. Max's bratty teenage son Sean shows up for a visit, bringing a box of Max's papers including a copy of Jules Verne's Journey To The Center Of The Earth. It turns out Max had a theory about volcanic "tubes" that could carry you past the Earth's magma layer into the planet's core. He takes Sean off to Iceland to discover the truth. They hook up with a mountain guide, Anita, who believes Verne was actually writing the truth. They ride a broken down mining rail, over a steep cliff, plummeting miles below sea level into a giant jewel-encrusted cave. They cope with carnivorous plants, Alien-like fish, and dinosaurs. [Variety]

Transformers 2:

Jon Voight (the Secretary of State in the first Transformers) says he won't be back for the sequel. [Collider]

Also, I totally missed the snippet towards the end of this article, where Michael Bay mentions a bit about the plot of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. Sam Witwicky goes off to college at an Ivy League-esque East Coast school, but Mikaela (Megan Fox) can't afford college. She travels from L.A. to visit him at his school. [NJ.com via TrekMovie]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

Garret Dillahunt's Terminator, Cromartie, will be a regular in the second season of the Terminator movie spin-off show Sarah Connor Chronicles. Cameron (Summer Glau) has some issues after surviving that explosion at the end of season one, and everybody changes at the end of the first episode. We'll also see Cameron trying to eliminate other girls in John Connor's life, if she feels they pose a strategic threat. [E! Online]

Smallville:

Young-Superman show Smallville is casting three characters for the first episode of season eight: a guard, a scientist and a researcher, all of whose storylines relate to Chloe somehow. Also, Clark has a surprise for Lois when he returns to Metropolis. [Kryptonsite]

Doctor Who:

So what exactly happened at the end of Saturday's episode of time-travel soap Doctor Who, when the dying Doctor started to regenerate? Nobody knows, but there are a few theories:

1) The Doctor has a failed regeneration, with his severed hand involved somehow, and as a result he turns into two different Doctors, both played by David Tennant. (We showed some pics of Tennant wearing two different colored suits on the beach where he said goodbye to Rose in season two.)
2) The Doctor has a failed regeneration, which splits him into two Doctors, one played by David Tennant (thanks to the severed hand?) and the other played by David Morrissey (who's in the Christmas special later this year playing a character referred to as "the other Doctor" on the actors' trailers.)
3) The Doctor has a failed regeneration, which splits him into two Doctors — one of whom is actually Donna. (Not sure where this one comes from, actually.)
4) The Doctor "rolls back" his regenerations for a bit, and turns into Sylvester McCoy, the Doctor from the late 1980s. (The main evidence for this is that Syl was interviewed for Doctor Who Confidential, and was wearing a version of his old costume on camera.)
5) The Doctor's regenerations are tied to the Master's now, so he somehow turns into John Simm. (This has apparently been debunked. Simm won't be back this week, but the Master will show up sometime in 2009.)
6) Something different will happen.
All we do know for sure is that Tennant was filming the Christmas special a while back, so he's definitely not being gotten rid of — unless that was the most elaborate foiler ever. [Doctor Who Forum]

But if you really can't wait, here's someone's fanfic of what might happen on Saturday. [Yo-Mawari]

We do know that Sarah-Jane Smith won't die, because Elisabeth Sladen says she's in the middle of filming a second season of Sarah-Jane Adventures already. [Spoiler TV]

And here's a trailer for Saturday's episode, which reveals almost nothing, except that Davros wants to reduce the universe to atoms, which will become nothing. "The destruction of reality itself!" (What if Davros actually succeeds, and then reality reforms itself, because of nature abhorring a vacuum?) [Planet Gallifrey]

Heroes:

"Villains" is volume three, not season three, of superhero melodrama Heroes — the show's third season will consist of both volumes three and four. (Volume three is just 13 episodes.) The season doesn't introduce many new characters, but some new villains will show up. There's definitely more to Nathan's assassination than meets the eye. Also, we'll explore what will happen if "Sylar were only the tip of the iceberg" in terms of morally corrupt people with superpowers. [Collider again]

Cancel The Ten-Foot, Three-Headed Dog

Much to the dismay of director Del Toro, a few creatures had to be dropped from Hellboy 2 including the ten-foot, three-headed bull dog. "I liked it because he was going to be in the back ground licking himself," said Del Toro. He added that the troll market scene in the new Hellboy 2 will be jam-packed with creatures. So never fear, your scary monster quota will be met. But still Del Toro promised he would post an image of the dog online in the next few weeks.

Milk, Eggs, Apocalypse

Del Toro did chat a little about his next project: he's started to sketch and write more about childhood. The possible title his next film is, Saturn At The End Of Days. The concept, "A kid named Saturn is watching the apocalypse happen on the way home from the grocery store," Del Toro revealed. "That one I am just doing because I'll be doing a small movie that I control, that no one else would do for sure."

Man Of The People

Besides being an incredible director, writer and artist Del Toro also knows when its time to look past himself. He encouraged creature designers to reach out to him, saying, "One or two guys have come out of Comic-Con and come to work with me on a movie." Asked by the audience if he ever hires interns, Del Toro encouraged people to email abe_sapien@hotmail.com.

Meanwhile, at his own panel, Hellboy creator Mike Mignola revealed more about his creative process and his early influences, plus the mythology he wants to include in upcoming issues of the comic. Here are his thoughts on a variety of topics.

His Early Influences

"I read Dracula when I was about 13 years old, and that was it. It's got that dark supernatural Victorian stuff, but there's also a background of folklore and old history and legend. My favorite comic growing up was Marvel Comics' Thor. From those two things I got really interested in weird stuff — it's so much fun because so little of it makes any sense."

When Universes Collide

Mignola says he tries not to have the different versions of Hellboy — the movie, animation, comic and video game universes — collide too often. "The movie is very much its own world, and the computer game falls into that world — you know, the one where he's wearing pants. The animations are their own thing." But one unexpected crossover did happen recently: the Hellboy novels have referenced the comics, but not vice versa — until the comics started to use a character that novelist Chris Golden had created. Meanwhile, the short story collections are also their own animal, and don't fit into the comics' universe. "Mostly, I keep my head down and just look at the comics."

Hellboy, Social Critic?

There's not really much social criticism in the Hellboy comics, Mignola says. "It's certainly never been my intention. I just want to see the big stuff smashing into each other. And a talking hedgehog! We have a talking hedgehog coming up! I'm really excited about that."

How To Break Into Comics

Drawing comics was all Mignola ever wanted to do. "I always wanted to draw, and I never really thought I could draw comics, but I wanted to work as an illustrator just drawing monsters and folklore — the kind of stuff I was reading. There just aren't that many places to do that. At some point, I just thought, let me sneak into the comics business. My plan was go to New York and sneak in as an inker, and eventually someone would feel sorry for me and say, "hey, why don't you try drawing a Conan story or something?" That was my goal. But since I was a terrible inker and had no other skills of any kind, one of the editors at Marvel got to me when my inking career died out and said, "are you ready to try drawing now?" I had nothing else to do. I had no fallback. I don't know what else I'd be doing. I was terrible — so bad — but little by little, after 6 or 8 years, I began to figure out what I was doing."

Developing His Art Style

"As I mentioned, I was horrible ... so most of that style came about by trying to be less horrible every time. "Maybe if I try this" is sort of how I thought, and little by little, it worked. Plus the coloring was often not so good, so i thought: "Gee, maybe if I put MORE black, that's one less place they can put pink or yellow." Little by little weird shapes would just be replaced with black. I desperately wanted to be Frank Frazetta in high school and Bernie Wrightson in college, so that's who I looked up to."

Monster-Obsessed

Someone asked, "As a writer, do you ever just want to stop the epic for a little while and write a story about two people just sitting on a beach talking about their feelings, or something?" Mignola replied: "If they're [talking] about monsters, yeah! [Guillermo] del Toro and I are similar in that way — he says if there isn't a weird creature on the call sheet, he doesn't want to go to work that day. Probably one of my failings as a writer is that it just doesn't hold my interest to write about regular people. I do a lot of character stuff, but I do it with these weird creatures."

What Mignola's Currently Reading

"There's not a horror series that I currently read ... I'm not big on contemporary writers. That's not true, there's a guy named David Wellington who just did a book called 99 Coffins, and before that he did a book called 13 Bullets — they're vampire books, and they're exactly the kind of thing I wouldn't normally read, but I read them and they're fantastic. I read mostly weird old stuff, and I'm a short story guy, so I read a lot of weird old short stories. Old 1800s kind of stuff. I'm not big on the whole contemporary world thing, which is why I dropped Hellboy off the face of the Earth. It's more fun to write about different places."

Mignola's Transition From Drawing To Writing

"I never set out to be a writer — I actually just wrote a thing about this in the second volume of the Hellboy Library Edition, whenever it comes out. For a couple months in high school I tried to be a fantasy writer, and then somebody read something I wrote out loud, and I never wanted to do it again until John Byrne said "okay, you're ready. You should write Hellboy yourself." Writing is really fun — but it's really hard. Drawing to me is pure fun, so I always approach it as an artist first and foremost. Working with great artists is so liberating, though, because as a writer, I can just say: "32 guys on horseback approach something" without going "oh my God, what does that look like?" I love writing and drawing my own stuff, and I will continue to do that, but there's something about just concentrating on one thing that's very appealing. For my next novel, I will plot it or co-plot it, but that's one where I'm going to work with another writer, because it would be so much fun to just focus on the art. That's something I haven't done in years."

What's Mignola's Favorite Lovecraft Story?

Says Mignola, "I probably haven't read all the Lovecraft stuff, and what I did read, I read a billion years ago — if I give a favorite now, I'll probably change my mind tomorrow. I love the overall sense of Lovecraft's stories, of this big unknowable universe, of these gigantic things bouncing around that couldn't care less about mankind, and mankind scraping around saying, "hey, what happens if I do this? *bang*" It's almost science fiction, but it stops short of being sci-fi because these gigantic godlike things are so remote from humanity that it's beyond comprehension. It's one of the things I'm always trying to make sure I do in my own work — to me, there's some kind of logic to the supernatural, but no one else can put the pieces together. As soon as there are rules, though, as soon as 2+2=4, it's not science fiction anymore. The further you look back in folklore and mythology, the less you see those hard-and-fast rules. I get upset when people say "vampires can do this or that," because they're supernatural creatures — they can do whatever I need them to do."

Working With Guillermo Del Toro

"Before I met Guillermo, he hadn't done The Devil's Backbone — he had done Cronos and Mimic, which I saw before he ever got onto Hellboy. So when somebody said "he wants to do Hellboy," I was all for it. When we met it was mostly comparing notes, and it worked immediately. He was sitting down, I walked into the room, and he shook my hand and said "I know who should play Hellboy" and I said "I do too" and we both said it at the same time. Then it was easy; we just went to the bookstore and hung out. We played a great trick on Mike Richardson. The second he dropped us off — in Portland, Oregon, where they have the best used bookstores in America — Guillermo said "this is a great opportunity" and we went back to my apartment. Guillermo coached me through the acting for this trick; I called Richardson and started screaming at him "DID YOU TALK TO THIS GUY?! HOW COULD YOU PUT ME WITH HIM?" Richardson was saying, "where is he now?" and I replied, "HE'S GONE! He went to the airport!" It was pretty good. Mostly, Guillermo's just a riot. He's so much fun to work with."

Movies That Influenced The Young Mignola

"There are certainly certain movies that really made a huge effect on me. They're all over the place — Beneath the Planet of the Apes just lit my head on fire, it was a life-changing moment for me. The John Huston Moby Dick, for whatever reason, is the greatest movie ever! I like that big drama stuff. The Bride of Frankenstein, and Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast .... There are some other ones, but that gives you a pretty wide range. I do watch a lot of movies."

When Will We See Duncan Fegredo (Who Illustrated Darkness Falls) Again?

"That's not a bad idea. I should promote my upcoming works! What he's done on the sequel to Darkness Calls — which is called The Wild Hunt — is already better than the entire Darkness Calls miniseries. He's already done most of the first issue. Richard Corben and I are doing a 3-issue miniseries called The Crooked Man, which takes place in the Appalachian mountains in the 1950s. It's got Hellboy dealing with backwoods witchcraft, that kind of thing."

How Lobster Johnson Got His Name

"I was in Italy, and I woke up and said to my wife, 'I just came up with the greatest name for a character ever!' And she looked at me the way she looks at me, which is: 'yeah, that's great, honey.' Every once in awhile something just comes together. I can labor and labor to try to think of names, but the best one just came to me. Every time I met a new character, I would go, 'can I use Lobster Johnson for that?'"

On Being A Perfectionist

"It's certainly easier to work on stuff when people aren't anticipating it, and the longer you wait between series, the more people are anticipating it: 'It's been 5 years! It must really be good!' I've always been a perfectionist, which is part of why now I want to do these smaller stories. There isn't that gigantic burden. The Amazing Screw-On Headwent really smooth, because I knew nobody was going to care about it — it went so well for me and was so much fun. I want to do more stuff like that, where I'm like, 'Well, no danger of anybody caring about this!'"

Additional reporting by Kaila Hale-Stern.

Note: I left out some smaller movies and some films that we know will probably bomb, like Eddie Murphy's Starship Dave. I also left out M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, which seems likely to bomb, even though I don't want to diss the Wahlberg. I wanted to avoid including any movie that was such an obvious choice, it would get a landslide vote. Plus, I'm not sure either Starship Dave or The Happening is really intended to be a summer blockbuster, or if they're more like counter-programming hoping to score a niche audience.

Also, this seems to be as good a place as any to ask: Is Get Smart science fiction? Should we be covering it?

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Hellboy 2 takes place four years after Hellboy, when Liz has moved in with Hellboy in the BPRD headquarters. A struggle emerges between two elf factions, led by Princess Nuala (Anna Walton) and Prince Nuada (Luke Goss) respectively. Everybody's trying to get hold of the missing piece of the crown of the Troll Kingdom, split into three pieces after an epic battle. Whoever puts all the pieces together can lead the unstoppable Golden Army.

The third piece of the crown is being sold off in an auction house in the surface world, and Prince Nuada's attempt to grab it puts him in conflict with Hellboy and the BPRD. SuperheroHype visited the sets of Hellboy 2 and saw the Troll King's chamber, actually a Hungarian church dressed up with six fake boilers from Antal & Co. Guillermo Del Toro & crew also built a huge Brooklyn street set, where Hellboy battles invading trolls and a giant creature. Hellboy and Liz face the Angel of Death, played by Doug Jones, who brought many of the weird creatures in Pan's Labyrinth to life. The Angel's wings open to show a series of eyes. Liz makes some kind of deal with the Angel of Death to save Hellboy's life. The Angel asks her to choose "the world or him," and she chooses him. The Angel tells her that when the time comes, she'll suffer "more than than anyone," and she says she'll deal with it. This may set up a conflict for Hellboy III, if it happens. [SuperheroHype]

More spoilers:

• Here are a couple of pics of Garrett Dillahunt (No Country For Old Men) in his new role as Cromartie (probably the evil Terminator) in Sarah Connor Chronicles. [The4400Guide]
• Weirdly, Whoopi Goldberg confirmed that another crashed Oceanic Flight 815 will be recovered from the ocean (with people on it) in an upcoming Lost episode. Is it a fake plane? Or an alternate universe version? Whoopi's not saying. [SpoilersLost]
• Here's a complete roundup of Star Trek spoilers and rumors that have already come out, with nothing particularly new. Time-traveling Romulans, Nero (Eric Bana), Nimoy traveling back, birth of Kirk, etc. etc. [UGO]
• X-Files 2 will be all about swimsuits. Or maybe not, but apparently there's a key scene where someone, maybe David Duchovny, finds a swimsuit and a bracelet. Also, here are some new pics of the filming in Newfoundland, posted by co-star Xzibit. [XFilesNews]

I'm not even going to make the obvious joke about a cameraphone recording of a handheld video cam recording. Meanwhile, there's also a new clip that doesn't show the monster.

• The giant time-travel donut thingy from the original Star Trek? The one that sends Captain Kirk back in time to smooch Liz Taylor? Turns out it's not appearing in the new Trek movie after all, says screenwriter Roberto Orci. Any time travel in the movie will be "totally original" and yet will reward fans who know all about the canon. Make of that what you will. [TrekWeb]
• We'll get to know Abe Sapien a lot better in Hellboy 2, and he'll have more action scenes using a gun as well as Capoeira. And he'll have a love interest. [IF Magazine]
• Agent Doggett and Agent Reyes won't appear in X-Files 2, but will be in the third film if it happens. [X-Files community]
• And here are three more new pics of Mulder and Scully. [UGO]

• In Battlestar season four, Starbuck will learn of the Cylon god's prediction that she's the herald of the apocalypse (from Battlestar Galactica: Razor.) Lee and Baltar will definitely make it to Earth. Lee and Anders take part in the big space battle in the first episode, and some of the Cylon raiders refuse to fire on Anders because they somehow realize he's a Cylon. Tigh is in denial about the whole "Cylon" thing, but Tory is stoked about it. Cally kills herself early on this season. We'll learn who the final Cylon is sometime in this spring's episodes, and it'll be "emotionally resonant" and make sense of a lot of things. [Pop Media Cult]
• Jack and the other Lost castaways who make it off the island agree to lie about what happened. They don't see each other much afterwards, and when they do it's incredibly uncomfortable. [WildBluffMedia]
• And here are three new promo photos from Lost: [SpoilersLost]