Todd McFarlane Offers an Update on Kevin Smith SAM AND TWITCH Series and Its Slow Moving
A couple of years ago, it was announced that Kevin Smith would be developing a new supernatural crime series based on the homicide detective characters from Spawn, Sam and Twitch. I was pretty stoked about this show when I first heard about it.
The project was initially set up at BBC America, and it was said to be “about these big-city homicide detectives who face a series of super grizzly [sic] crimes that are connected to the occult. It's kind of frightening and sort of gallows humor. It's, again, procedural, but in a very modern, contemporary way. So each episode is closed-ended, although there are certain character-serialized aspects to the storytelling."
So, what has been going on with the development of the show? According to Spawn creator Todd McFarlane it’s been moving very slowly. In fact, it seems like there’s been no movement at all.
"Lots of people asking. New inquiries coming in, but no unfortunately nothing. I think it started BBC America and then it went AMC and then it sort of bounced. And so it's just one of those ones, you know? Can't say there hasn't been a sea of people that get caught in the shuffles of the rights moving from the parent company to sister companies and vice versa. Anyways."
So, even though it was initially set up at BBC America, they ended up passing on it, and now the series is being shopped around to other networks. I’m sure they have shopped it around to the streaming services as well, if that is the case.
McFarlane continued to say that Smith had already completed a script and presented his ideas for the entire first season of Sam and Twitch. Now it’s all up to a studio to come in and fund it:
"I think he wrote one script and then he gave an outline for the rest of the season. There's something that exists from his point of view. Then it's just a matter of whoever, on any project, decide to spend any money. Then they always have their point of view of everything. Sometimes that keeps 95% of what was there and sometimes they want to throw out 95%, so who knows?"
I would really love to see this series get made, but things don’t seem to be looking good for it, which is a shame. This seemed like a perfect project for Smith to take on. Hopefully, it ends up finding what it needs to get made.
Source: CB