Original 'Hellboy' Screenwriter Reveals Scrapped Plans For Live-Action 'Lupin III' Starring Jim Carrey

Original 'Hellboy' Screenwriter Reveals Scrapped Plans For Live-Action 'Lupin III' Starring Jim Carrey

Lupin (Yasuo Yamada) attempts to ditch an unwanted hitchhiker in Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Toho In making one of the most unexpected reveals in the entirety of anime’s Hollywood history, original Hellboy screenwriter Peter Briggs has let slip that at around the same time he was penning the script to said comic book film, he was also hard at work on an ultimately unrealized, live-action adaptation of Kazuhiko “Monkey Punch” Katō…

Jim Carrey almost starred in a live-action adaptation of an anime classic as Hellboy screenwriter reveals he worked on a scrapped Lupin III script in the '90s

Jim Carrey could have played Lupin III in the '90s