Todd McFarlane's SPAWN Movie Gets a New Screenwriter
It looks like Todd McFarlane’s Spawn movie isn’t dead yet. The project is still slowly moving forward as it was recently announced that a new screenwriter has jumped on board to help move the project along. That writer is Brian Tucker who previously worked on the 2013 film Broken City, which starred Russell Crowe and Mark Wahlberg. He hasn’t really done much else. Interesting choice for a writer as McFarlane previously boasted about how he had an Academy Award-winning writer working on the script a few years ago.
The film is set up a Blumhouse Productions, and McFarlane is still attached as the director. As for the previously cast actors Jamie Foxx as Spawn and Jeremy Renner as Twitch, since a lot of time has passed since their casting, it’s unclear if they are still involved.
The film has previously been described as “Spawn meets David Fincher” and says that it is going to be a “gritty” and “dirty thing”. When previously talking about his take on the story, McFarlane previously 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 that they're still actively pursuing the project, and they are taking their time to get the script right:
"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 then promised that the reboot is “gonna be very different, it’s gonna be very edgy." Well, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see if the movie actually ever moves into production. But, it’s good to known that the film is still being worked on!
Source: THR