Actually, both films could have been real hits: one fantasy blockbuster brims up just in front of Star Power and the other actually ties in with two extremely popular films. But neither the Great Wall nor Hellboy: Call of Darkness was granted real success.
That’s what the Great Wall is about with Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal and Willem Dafoe
The two mercenaries William Garin (Matt Damon) and Pero Tovar (Pedro Pascal) get into the catch of the Chinese in the 15th century, who manage a gigantic wall. Nobody believes that they supposedly only want to act, and soon the absolute chaos breaks out: the Chinese wall was not built to prevent people have no ending horde on monsters.
Here you can see the Great Wall Trailer:
The Great Wall – Trailer 2 (German) HD
What happens in Hellboy – Call of Darkness with David Harbor and Milla Jovovich?
As the name suggests, Hellboy actually comes from hell. But he currently works at the BPRD (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense) and tries with his foster father Trevor Bruttenholm (Ian McShane), to protect mankind from nasty beings. For example, in front of the Blood Köngin Nimue (Milla Jovovich), which has no less than the end of the world in mind.
That is why the two fantasy blockbusters Hellboy and The Great Wall failed
The Great Wall is said to have stuck in the production hole for years and there were always rumors that various stars were only on board, but then jumped off again. Whitewashing allegations were made before the theatrical release Because of Matt Damon’s casting – once again a white one has to save the locals because of course they don’t make it alone.
According to Box Office Mojo, $ 334 million was recorded with a budget of $ 150 million. That is Not a mega-flopbut also not significantly more than twice the production costs. This calculation is roughly a rule of thumb in order to also record advertising costs again and to go through as a success.
Nevertheless, there is a lot of epic battles in The Great Wall, which also also of the
Directing Yimou Zhang were staged, who already has such successful works as Hero or House of the Flying Daggers on the notch.
At Hellboy: Call of Darkness, almost everything went wrong that can only go wrong. Director and Cast have disputed And the entire fan community was thrown up. What she wanted was a Hellboy 3 with Ron Perlman and Guillermo del Toro, like the first two films.
With Rotten Tomatoes, Hellboy: Call of Darkness only comes to a 17 percent score, but the audience is a bit more gracious and gives 47 percent. With the Moviepilot reviews, it is now 5.2. If you like bloody fantasy action, you can take a look.
TV or stream: When and where do the Great Wall and Hellboy: Call of Darkness come?
You can give yourself the full boom Fantasy action if you are this Monday, March 10th From 8:15 p.m. at Nitro switched on. First The Great Wall runs and Hellboy – Call of Darkness follows at 10:05 p.m.
The latter can currently also look at Netflix or WoW in the streaming flat rate, for example, the former comes in the Amazon Prime subscription.
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