What's It All About, Hellboy?

Coming Soon have updated with the official synopsis for Hellboy 2 - how could I not bring it to you?

With a signature blend of action, humor and character-based spectacle, the saga of the world's toughest, kitten-loving hero from Hell continues to unfold in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. Bigger muscle, badder weapons and more ungodly villains arrive in an epic vision of imagination from Oscar®-nominated director Guillermo del Toro.

After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army of creatures. Now, it's up to the planet's toughest, roughest superhero to battle the merciless dictator and his marauders. He may be red. He may be horned. He may be misunderstood. But when you need the job done right, it's time to call in Hellboy (Ron Perlman).

Along with his expanding team in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development--pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair), aquatic empath Abe (Doug Jones) and protoplasmic mystic Johann--the BPRD will travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical one, where creatures of fantasy become corporeal. And Hellboy, a creature of two worlds who's accepted by neither, must choose between the life he knows and an unknown destiny that beckons him.

From Naked Man To Drive Away Dykes

Ethan Coen is sticking his neck out of the roost again to write another film without Joel. Last time he did this, I believe, the result was The Naked Man, directed by regular Coen storyboard man and prince stand-in, J. Todd Anderson. It was okay... just okay.

Courtesy of Jo Blo, I've been to the temporary site for Drive Away Dykes, a film Coen is co-writing and producing and Allison Anders will direct. Tricia Cooke - Mrs. Ethan Coen - is his cowriter on this project and, according to the basic listings given, the film is to star Holly Hunter and Selma Blair. You can also see some rough-n-ready storyboard sketches on the site, such as the example I've popped up top.

This film honestly sounds like another Grind House chapter, and I'm actually a little disappointed it isn't being paired up with another film and some fake trailers, a la Death Proof or Planet Terror. Anders was one of the Four Rooms directors, I'm sure you recall, so might I suggest the other member of that quartet, Alexandre Rockwell, be given his first film in four years just as long as he makes it nice and sleazy too.