Spawn cartoon for kids?

*neatoman* · 10-11-2021, 06:16 AM

This is old news but recent enough to still be relevant (I think).
Anyway, there are two animated series based on Spawn in development, one for adults and one for children. The one for adults I understand but the idea of making a Spawn cartoon for kids seems... Strange to me. The premise of Spawn is that he went to hell for being a CIA hitman and was sent back as a demonic entity so he could fill hell up with sinners by killing them, how do you even make that remotely child friendly?

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/todd-m...on-kids-adults

*sdp* · 10-11-2021, 08:41 AM

A Spawn cartoon for kids can definitely be done, don't forget in the 90s the toys were marketed to kids and sat in the aisle next to X-Men and Batman. The 90s Spawn movie was for kids, well marketed that way and it was only PG13 (though I guess at the time that was a high rating for a Superhero movie). And the figures shown above were made in the mid 2000's, Bruce Timm inspired for a fictional saturday morning cartoon called "Adventures of Spawn". It was successful enough to get a second wave of figures and is still popular to this day. The bios and web comics made for those figures featured a more "kid friendly" version of Spawn's lore and they did a good job adapting it. Al is still dead for example we never see how it happens but know he is but instead of seeing his burned face it's his normal human face just with green eyes. Heaven/Hell are still in a war but they go by different names like "light and dark side" or something of the like, it's been years since I read it.

Todd Mcfarlane has been talking about the new Spawn movie and Spawn The Animation for two decades now, supposedly it's all done, they just need the final details. It's been like that for years, so I won't believe it until we have a real announcement not from Mcfarlane in an interview. Spawn has been more popular than ever with the kickstarter being a huge success the Spawn figure for Mortal Kombat being super popular and a new Spawn toyline being popular. So it might happen in a few years, they did announce some cast members a long while ago as well. who knows, but that article is from 2019 so don't think of anything from that as real, I'm sure in the next interview Mcfarlane will talk about the pandemic putting a stop to it for bit but that he's still working on it. And I do believe he's working on it, just hard to get executives to give him the money for the project he wants to make, but I can respect him for not wanting to give creative control.

10-11-2021, 08:41 AM	#2
sdp Detoxed Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Tokio, Italy Posts: 11,222	A Spawn cartoon for kids can definitely be done, don't forget in the 90s the toys were marketed to kids and sat in the aisle next to X-Men and Batman. The 90s Spawn movie was for kids, well marketed that way and it was only PG13 (though I guess at the time that was a high rating for a Superhero movie). And the figures shown above were made in the mid 2000's, Bruce Timm inspired for a fictional saturday morning cartoon called "Adventures of Spawn". It was successful enough to get a second wave of figures and is still popular to this day. The bios and web comics made for those figures featured a more "kid friendly" version of Spawn's lore and they did a good job adapting it. Al is still dead for example we never see how it happens but know he is but instead of seeing his burned face it's his normal human face just with green eyes. Heaven/Hell are still in a war but they go by different names like "light and dark side" or something of the like, it's been years since I read it. Todd Mcfarlane has been talking about the new Spawn movie and Spawn The Animation for two decades now, supposedly it's all done, they just need the final details. It's been like that for years, so I won't believe it until we have a real announcement not from Mcfarlane in an interview. Spawn has been more popular than ever with the kickstarter being a huge success the Spawn figure for Mortal Kombat being super popular and a new Spawn toyline being popular. So it might happen in a few years, they did announce some cast members a long while ago as well. who knows, but that article is from 2019 so don't think of anything from that as real, I'm sure in the next interview Mcfarlane will talk about the pandemic putting a stop to it for bit but that he's still working on it. And I do believe he's working on it, just hard to get executives to give him the money for the project he wants to make, but I can respect him for not wanting to give creative control. __________________ *Trapt* *urself Page MiscRave!!!* Click to join The Drome Discord server Last edited by sdp; 10-11-2021 at 08:59 AM.