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IESB.net has an interview with director Guillermo Del Toro, conducted on the set of HELLBOY 2: THE GOLDEN ARMY. Del Toro describes the development of the idea for a sequel:

When we finished the first, we talked about it for a long time and I came up with an idea that was very different from this one. That is the one we pitched to Revolution. The character story was the same, but the anecdote wasn’t the Golden Army but the four titans in the four corners of the Earth. Wind, Water, Fire and Earth. And a prince wanted to awaken the four titans of the Earth. However, this idea felt to me like a more magical idea. The title Golden Army sounded great and I thought, “What could the Golden Army be?” And then when I thought about the princess’ father having constructed them eons before and him wanting them to conquer the world, it sounded immediately great and that is what we pitched.

He also describes how the sequel will differ from the first film:

One of the things I am changing is both the action and the fighting. I went for some things in the first one that I was not that happy with. I think this is a completely different type of fighting. I was lavish to a certain type of thing, trying to reproduce certain things the comic book did. But I tried it on Blade II and immediately after, I tried it on Hellboy. And for whatever reason, it already felt old. So what we are doing are things that I think are more freeing or in a strange way more beautiful or spectacular…There is a spectacle in the action and the fighting, there is a beauty to it.

UPDATE: IGN.com has an interview with actor Doug Jones, who not only reprises his role as Abe Sapien in the movie; he also plays a few other creature characters, including the Angel of Death.