Todd McFarlane, the man who created the Spawn character and comic book series, has just announced that he’s finished the script for a new Spawn film. He says he’s going to trim it down before he sends it around Hollywood and that he’s at “183 pages” and hopes to cut it down to about “140”.
It seems this is because he wants to direct the new movie and that the smaller story will benefit both in catching people’s attention and help keep the budget low.
“I want to keep it small, keep it tight, so they’ll let me direct it!”
Todd McFarlane also hopes to start production in 2016:
“I need to get him back up on the big screen again to make him relevant in a big way, which we will do.”
As for the story, McFarlane suggests it will be very different from anything we’ve seen before regarding the character.
“I’d put it more into horror/suspense/supernatural genre,” McFarlane says. “In the background, there’s this thing moving around, this boogeyman. That boogeyman just happens to be something that you and I, intellectually, know is Spawn. Will he look like he did in the first movie? No. Will he have a supervillain he fights? No. He’s going to be the spectre, the ghost.”
He refers to movies like The Ring and The Grudge as examples of how he wants to use the character:
“I think they all work because there’s only one thing in the movie that’s not normal. There’s not five things, there’s one thing that’s the boogeyman. So that’ll be Spawn. He’s this thing that just whooshes in, this ghost that moves and will fuck you up if you’re in the wrong place in the wrong time, and the rest of the movie will look real, and be this real drama. He’s just this ghost, this thing behind it.”
It seems like the new Spawn will be a more psychological reinvention with a lot of passion put in from Todd McFarlane.
Source: ComicBook.com
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