Comments on: Todd McFarlane gives an Update on his new SPAWN Movie

By: boxofficebuz

boxofficebuz — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:14:13 +0000

i like what he is saying. because who would guarantee its a great move but the creator of the series. instead of getting some one to come in that only cares about making a huge amount of money off of it.

By: Kuroi_Inu

Kuroi_Inu — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:21:42 +0000

agreed

By: Kuroi_Inu

Kuroi_Inu — Mon, 11 May 2009 08:20:54 +0000

Spawn failed like daredevil, elecktra, and the punisher failed because of Terrible Acting . spawn is blood gore evil and all sorts of nastiness thats why the series was so good if u can get actors to carry these qualities over the screen u got urself a movie

By: mallika

mallika — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:54:14 +0000

i truly hated the first ’spawn’ movie. it was a total waste of two hours of my life that i’ll never get back!

i am glad macfarlane wants complete creative control. ’spawn’ was one of the best animated series i’ve ever seen. furthermore, a big budget studio = big expectations for numbers. i feel like a studio like fox would sacrifice the integrity of the material so that it can have a lower PG-13 rating in order to get numbers up. i mean, if you need evidence, look at what they did to ‘wolverine’. i haven’t seen too many dark comics that do well under a PG-13 rating–’the dark knight’ being the only exception(and even so, that was a pretty large body count for a PG-13 flick).

letting fox studios lay claim to ’spawn’ will be as misguided as casting keanu reeves as ‘constantine’….woah.

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By: headphone

headphone — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:21:58 +0000

some, maybe a shot of violator was good in the movie. the effects, that is. but it already feels like a dark movie. like a dirty shirt with sand and rocks in it. the two cop angle, might be interesting. but it’d have to be quite one hell of a story to make a big audience want to watch two cops in a super hero movie. watchmen suffered from that misleading superhero thing also with the audience. any one i talked to who hadn’t read the comic wasn’t expecting those suites to be that kind of movie.

By: Lola

Lola — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:54:59 +0000

i hated john lequizamo in it. i wanted to punch his throat

By: JoshHouchin

JoshHouchin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:32:36 +0000

Yeah, the film was dreadful. I hated it in theaters and was on spike tv recently and I couldn’t even watch it. But the animated series was pretty dope, and McFarlane has been talking about the Sam and Twitch-oriented “Se7en with demons” for a long time… but I don’t know if he should really direct it. I mean, please, by all means, give him total creative control, but I don’t think he has any directing experience, I can’t see giving him that title being a good idea.

By: Mr. Black

Mr. Black — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:25:27 +0000

I am going to have to respectfully disagree with you on that one Primal. I was actually very dissapointed by the first film. It felt too “comic bookish” to me. I love the realistic comic book movies (Dark Knight) it makes it feel like this could happen. I like this approach that Todd is going. I just have no idea if he is a good director.

By: PRIMALDATA

PRIMALDATA — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:56:13 +0000

The first spawn movie wasn’t terrible, the special effects weren’t great but it seemed to stick pretty damn close to the source material. The only thing that was missing was the ticking clock.

I think he should let spawn be a comic hero, people go to see comic book movies what they shun are these well we gotta make it realistic pieces of art trash folks try to make based on a character they grew up reading and watching either after school or saturday morning.

Give spawn a polish like they did spidey, let him do his ghoulish and demonic anti hero best and his daughters would go see it. Spawn was wolverine with magic powers, a cape and sabertooths claws instead of in the wrist claws. Allow him to be his bloody best, let him go ahead and be mystical and magical that isn’t what sank the first spawn movie the fact that it wasn’t as crisp as you wanted it to be and well the ending kinda sucked. I mean wow you “win” at the end of the first movie, that shit took years to build up to and you end it all in one flick.

That was the problem with spawn one