Spawn [reboot]

Todd McFarlane Talks About His Live-Action Spawn Reboot Starring Jamie Foxx

The new Spawn script is almost finished and it’s nothing like it’s predecessor.

Todd McFarlane is still committed to making his live action Spawn reboot, and he’s calling it a supernatural thriller rather than a superhero movie.

The legendary writer and Image Comics prez sat down with the folks at Assignment X to share his thoughts on why his new Spawn script - which he’ll finish in a few months - is different from the panned 1997 Michael Jai White actioner.

McFarlane blames the first Spawn movie’s shortcomings on a novice production team, primitive special effects technology, and being “a little bit ahead of the curve” vis a vis the whole superhero movie thing. Fortunately, McFarlane plans to bring his decades of producing and directing experience to the new project and there’s no longer any danger of being ahead of the superhero movie curve. The word is pretty much out on that one.

McFarlane says Jamie Foxx is still keen on playing the titular Hellspawn. The new version will steer clear of the more physical aspects of Spawn’s abilities, such that Foxx could keep doing Spawn movies well into his 60s. Because that’s something a person would want, I guess? McFarlane promises the film “is just going to be The Departed and L.A. Confidential with a ghost moving around in it.” Oh, is that all? He also says he wants it to be more like The Conjuring and less like Iron Man. By that he presumably means cheap yet wildly successful, because he also refers to his Spawn reboot as a ten million dollar film. That kind of money wouldn’t buy Tony Stark’s armored cufflinks.



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