
Over at DelToroFilms.com, Guillermo del Toro reports on the first day of shooting with a revelation about the film's composer."Danny Elfman IS [emphasis his] going to score 'HELLBOY II' and I feel privileged. I have worked with Marco Beltrami many times and will work with him soon enough but I believe we will have a beautiful score with Elfman, whom I admire greatly (in fact the "Title sewquence" [sic] music cue had the "Ta-de-dum-ta-de-dum" rythm by explicit request by me in an attempt to make it kind of Elfmanesque) and with whom I share a dark view of the world."Then GdT gets into the specifics we really want to know about:"In the first 'HELLBOY' film we had about 8 creatures (total, between CGI and animatronics/prosthetics) but in this one we have around 30 or more and the emphasis is still heavily on a 50% 50% balance with CGI as enhancement or as a choice but not THE choice."