Todd McFarlane Says It's Now or Never For His New SPAWN Movie
When Blumhouse Pictures actually jumped on board Todd McFarlane’s new Spawn film project, I actually thought there was a chance that it might actually get made. Well, that was five years ago and nothing has happened. So, I’m once again convinced that this Spawn movie is not going anywhere. I’d be shocked if it actually got made, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
McFarlane offered a recent update on the project during an interview with Bleeding Cool, and he declares that it’s now or never to get his movie made. He said:
"Something's going to give in the next few months, right? There's too many people pushing in that direction, again I've got a call later today on that very subject. You can imagine Spider-Man makes a billion dollars and everybody sort of gets sort of... I mean they were already crazy, now they just got twice as crazy. I mean they got crazy when the only movies that were making money were superheroes, and then Venom goes and rocks it, and then Spider-Man comes in and obliterates it, so now they're almost singular in their mindset of what kind of ideas they've got. So something has to happen. We'll never get to the top of the mountain if we can't do it now, with everybody wanting to do it now. Fingers crossed. I would say it's now or never."
It’s pretty strange that this movie hasn’t actually been made yet. The only thing I can think of is that there are things regarding the direction of the film that McFarlane, who is supposed to direct the movie, won’t budge on. I think it’s his creative control that is holding it up, and it might just be his way or the highway.
I really liked his vision and pitch for the film. Jamie Foxx was previously cast as Spawn and Jeremy Renner as Twitch, but since so much time has passed I don’t even know if they’re still involved.
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."
Producer Jason Blum also previously offered an update on the project several months ago saying, “What excited me about it is that Spawn is kind of the last great unexploited comic. So that seemed like an amazing opportunity. It’s taken longer than I hoped it would have to get the story right, but we’re still working on it." Blum also said that the reboot is “gonna be very different, it’s gonna be very edgy."
If it gets made.