The Hunt Is on for a Director for Todd McFarlane's KING SPAWN and Possible Story Details

Last week it was announced that the script was finished for Todd McFarlane’s long-awaited Spawn movie and that the title of the film is King Spawn.

The film is set up at Blumhouse, Jamie Foxx is still attached to star in the movie, and the script was written by Matt Mixon, Malcolm Spellman (Falcon and the Winter Soldier), and Scott Silver (Joker).

We are now learning from The Hollywood Reporter that Blumhouse is now on the hunt for a director. The report: “King Spawn now has a completed script, one that McFarlane and producer Jason Blum’s Blumhouse have enough confidence in to start meeting with directors for the movie.”

The site adds: “After finding a director, the team will then approach studio partners.”

McFarlane originally wanted to direct the movie but as the development process went on, he realized that he might not be suited for the job.

McFarlane teased: “Deadpool is a fun R. Something like Joker 2 is a serious R. Our movie is going to be super serious and dark and gritty. It’s going to be an at times a heavy movie.

“If you like serious drama, with meaningful themes that are relevant and that may even some reflection of the world we live in, then this has a lot of those elements in it.”

The film has previously been described as “Spawn meets David Fincher” and a “gritty” and “dirty thing.” When previously talking about his take on the story.

McFarlane explained: "There's two big roles in the script. There's obviously sort of Spawn himself, although in a weird way it's not the biggest role, and then there's the cop.

“The cop is this character Twitch who's been there since issue #1. Twitch is the role in this one, and I sort of refer to him as my sheriff Brody, who is the sheriff in the Jaws movie.

“Although it was called Jaws, Jaws didn't really talk a lot in his movie, right? He just kind of showed up at the opportune time to make the movie worthwhile."

Now, it seems like that has evolved into a possible adaptation of the King Spawn comic book storyline, which was launched by Image Comics back in 2021.

In King Spawn, “When one of the vilest creatures ever imprisoned in Hell is released back onto Earth, Spawn follows the clues right into a trap set just for him. But why does Kincaid want Spawn to ascend the throne of Hell, and what of the prophecy of the King Spawn?”‘

It’s going to be interesting to see how this movie turns out but it looks like after a long road of development and trying to get this movie made, it’s actually going to happen one day!