New Spawn movie in the works
 

Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions are teaming up with Todd McFarlane to develop a new movie based on the comic book icon's creation, Spawn.

McFarlane has written the first draft of the script and is set to direct the project, marking a rare foray for a comic creator into the director's chair.

McFarlane became a comics superstar and one of the industry's first artist-millionaires in the 1980s, thanks to his work on Amazing Spider-Man. He later was one of the founding artists of Image Comics with his creation, Spawn.

Spawn told of a black-ops agent who is betrayed and killed, his soul sent to hell for all the innocents he killed. While there, he makes a deal with a demon who allows him to return to the earthly plane and his wife. However, five years have now passed, and his wife has moved on, while he is a disfigured and superpowered spawn of hell.

The comic was adapted into a 1997 New Line horror-action movie that starred Michael Jai White, as well as a late-1990s HBO cartoon series.

McFarlane, who also became an entrepreneur with a high-end toy company, has been developing the new movie for some time and was shopping it in the spring, only recently bringing it to Blumhouse. The company is envisioning the new Spawn project as a low-budget horror movie.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...mhouse-1023407

I'll believe it when I actually see something like a poster or teaser. McFarlane has told us "it's definitely happening this time, just wait till next year for more news" For over a decade now. Same with the new Spawn cartoon.

Don't get me wrong I'd love for it to happen and think there's tons of potential but so far we've gotten nowhere but promises for over a decade.

Hasn't he been saying this since the end of the HBO animated series, which would make it almost 20 years now?

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/spawn...w-film-a156820

Yep. I remember even right after that first movie, McFarlane was talking about developing one for eons. I remember at first he was talking, "It's going to be a lot of Sam and Twitch, Seven-style!"

I think the only way I'd be interested in a new Spawn movie is if I'd re-read the comics...and I really don't have much of a desire to do that again.
(I fear they haven't aged well, and I know for a fact that I haven't...so there's that.)

But...have fun, those who are looking forward to such a thing.

I knew it was just going to be another confirmation of the movie, but every time I see Spawn in the news I hope this time it'll be real.

Spawn is the only superhero movie I think I'd be excited if it were announced, too jaded on DC/Marvel.

I'm pretty indifferent to Spawn, or a Spawn movie. The first movie was horrific, and my memory of the comics only serve as an angry reminder for how quickly McFarlane himself "sold out" and ran away.

I read copies of issues 1-110 or so through my library a couple of years ago. I ended up buying the first big hardcover volume. The first year's worth or so of the original comic is pure '90s cheese in the best possible way, especially with the Frank Miller, Dave Sim, and Alan Moore guest issues. It honestly reminds me of Mirage TMNT in some aspects.

I think if they were going to make a film version for today's audiences, they might do well to emulate the Brian Michael Bendis "Hellspawn" miniseries that treats him like more of a force of nature or a Grim Reaper type of character. Maybe they could give you bits and pieces of his origin throughout a tight, focused narrative that otherwise deals with the actual plot at hand. After they've established a viable interest in the character, they could expand the mythology in any way they want.

That HBO animated show is still probably the best single thing I've seen from that franchise, though--and I watched it in college, so there was no '90s nostalgia coloring my viewpoint.

So he wants to make a new Spawn movie, in which Spawn doesn't speak at all, and Spawn isn't the main character, he also said the movie isn't a superhero movie, but a supernatural thriller, there a lot of fans of those comics that are gonna be very disappointed by this.

If you only look at the comic run then yeah, but you don't think of the worse parts of DC/Marvel comics when wanting to make a movie, you take the things that worked.

Spawn has potential.

Jamie Foxx cast as Spawn. I didn't realize the budget was going to be so low for this ($10-$12 million)

http://deadline.com/2018/05/spawn-ja...mpression=true

I was really excited about this until I heard Jamie Foxx was being cast as Spawn... WTF? Has the casting director ever read a single issue of Spawn!?

May as well cast him as Blade too if we're just gonna start butchering all the remakes that would have to already be AMAZING to out-do the originals.

Comedians can pull off serious roles, besides Spawn is not the main character in the movie, based off what McFarlane has said over the years he'll be mostly in the shadows and it's going to be more of a Sam and Twitch movie which I think its awesome. For this very reason it might not need a very big budget. Spawn wears a mask and when he takes it off his face is burnt so I definitely think Jamie Foxx can pull it off.

After like 15 years of McFarlane saying it was happening I think it actually might be happening. It's going to be a very low budget movie that will barely feature Spawn and people will complain endlessly because of it before release but I don't know, I think it can be cool and better than the superhero cookiecutter stuff we have now.

Sounds like it's not happening.

https://www.cosmicbooknews.com/spawn...farlane-vision

Hollywood is not sold on the idea of the movie being R rated. and it being a Superhero. Because by default they think all Superhero movies are PG-13.

Well obviously. Who's f*cking fault is that?!



Luckily, Spawn sucks, so whatever.

I'm a little bit confused about the part where it has a 10-12 million dollar budget (as in, money already committed to the movie)... and now we're not sure it's happening? Did McFarlane get mugged?

But you have Superhero movies like Logan and Deadpool. R rated Superheroes movies that did really well.

Todd McFarlane is pitching this as a Horror Movie and not a Superhero movie. Hollywood Execs were thinking. Because Spawn is a Comic Book. that its a Superhero.

I agree that R-Rated comic book films SHOULD exist, but it's a certain company's direct fault that right now, Hollywood sees comic book films as "Silly sh*t for kids" and won't let anyone go outside the box.

Which is still a dumb lesson. R-rated Deadpool -- which is not a Marvel Studios movie -- did more money than ANY X-Men movie before it. The lesson should be, do a good R-rated comic book movie, people will show up.

Which is why they are releasing a PG-13 version of Deadpool 2 in December.

I'm seeing a lot of oddities about that. It almost seems like Ryan Reynolds is the one pushing it out. Like, a lot of new footage will be in it and it will serve as kind of a commentary about PG-13ing movies that shouldn't be PG-13.

The new footage is scenes with Fred Savage. And it looks like its poking fun at the Princess Bride. The movie he was in also.

That's the thing, though; Deadpool only worked by being exactly what it was, which is exactly what it was supposed to be.

"NOW let's show that we can force it into the MCU cookie cutter and make even MORE money! I mean, staying true to the material is nice and all... but what's REALLY important is that we get little kids and teens to see a movie about a character that's not at all for them, so we can then sell them more action figures and those chintzy Wal-Mart Halloween costumes!"

PG-13 Deadpool. Jesus. Of all the "conceived in sin" ideas there ever were... :roll:

I thought the movie was actually happening after all these years of blue balls :lol: oh well.

McFarlane seems to think it's still happening, let's wait until next year to hear McFarlane tell us this time it's very close to begin production

https://deadline.com/2021/11/todd-mc...se-1234866345/

Todd Mcfarlane announces Mcfarlane films with a tv division including Sam & Twitch, a live-action TV series and of course a Spawn Cinematic Universe. Release date "Very Soon". At least there should be more spawn fan films