For years now, we’ve received updates about the Spawn movie that Todd McFarlane plans on making.
It’s gotten to the point where there’s almost no point in even talking about it, until we’re sitting in the movie theater about to watch.
Just a couple weeks back, McFarlane said the film wouldn’t happen unless he had total creative control:
“So I’m going, I’m not selling it but if you want to see the rough draft, I’ll send it to you. But just so everybody knows, I write, produce, direct, non-negotiable.”
He added:
“I wouldn’t ask to be a newbie director on a script that was going to have an eighty million budget for it. Why? Because as a CEO of my own corporation, I wouldn’t take that deal. I wouldn’t stick out $80 million and go, ‘they’re going to put a rookie and he’s going to basically be in charge of it.’ So I’ve created this tight little one that I keep saying, I think I can shoot it for ten.”
Well, apparently someone at Blumhouse was interested, as McFarlane has officially signed on to produce and direct a Spawn film!
Here’s the official announcement:
McFarlane has stated that it’s going to be an R-Rated Horror film, not really like the 1997 film:
“What I can tell you is what I’ve told everybody else: it will be a definite R. I’m not going for the same crowd that Marvel and DC is going for; I’m going for the same crowd that horror film releases going for. People who want to take their boyfriend or girlfriend or go out with the girls and go to the movies and get spooked.”
Here’s hoping it actually happens.