11 Things You Didn't Know About 'Hellboy II'
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Monday, July 14, 2008
8. Guillermo’s troll market scene is reminiscent of the famous Star Wars’ Cantina:
Guillermo del Toro: That was Mike [Mignola]’s fear…every time we came to the troll market Mike [would hum a Star Wars tune]. I said “No” and we shot it completely different from that. Instead of doing a close up of every creature that we had I treated them like extras in the background. Sometimes we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a creature that happens only in the first shot. If you look at the movie ever again you’ll see a creature called the Strider, which are three large elephant like creatures with long legs like the elephants…the only ones in the whole movie and I said I will shoot it completely different from the Cantina scene. I will shoot it like we really wandered into a real place and I will use creatures that cost thousands of dollars to pass by and we did.
