Todd McFarlane Talks About Spawn's CALL OF DUTY Crossover Saying "There’s a Natural Military Aspect"
Todd McFarlane’s comic book character Spawn is making his big debut in the Call of Duty video game franchise with the upcoming Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 update. If you think that this might be an odd choice of a crossover, McFarlane explains how the whole thing works perfectly and naturally.
While speaking with ComingSoon, McFarlane explained that before Spawn was Spawn, the iconic comic book character was a former military member named Al Simmons. He went on to share that there’s a natural military aspect that makes Spawn a great fit for Call of Duty. He said:
“Well, let’s talk about the character himself. Right underneath the mask in the costume is a guy named Al Simmons — more specifically, Lieutenant Colonel Al Simmons. So literally since issue number one, there’s been the presence of military in the mythology of this character. So, besides him being popular on the comic book front for 30 years. There’s a natural military aspect that I think probably makes him a little bit easier and more seamless to integrate into the Call of Duty game than if you were parachuting other licensed products into it.”
McFarlane also talked about how he and the team behind Modern Warfare 2 wanted Spawn to have different iterations, making sure that those designs fit within the game they were creating:
“So when we were having a conversation with the dev team, we spoke about that more, instead of it just being Spawn or Spawn with big guns. There are iterations — not only in the comic book, but on the toy side of him — as Commando Spawn, decked out in his Desert Storm look, his military looks, and then Al Simmons himself, pre-becoming Spawn; he was just a badass in the military."
“He was in the Special Ops. So I think when everybody thought about it, I think they came in with, ‘Hey, let’s just do a Spawn. It’d be cool.’ And then we sort of expanded out, which is why it’s not just the OG Spawn — it’s Spawn and a couple different looks, a couple different characters, and then even some of the Call of Duty characters with ‘cosplay paint jobs’ of Spawn on them.”
Keith David, the voice actor from Spawn: The Animated Series, will also return to voice the character, which is awesome!