Back in May, Todd McFarlane claimed he had “five offers on the table” from different studios offering him the chance to make a new movie based on the Spawn comic book character he created in the 90′s. The offer he was leaning towards was a smaller sized and more character driven/adult themed picture.
Well today, McFarlane has announced he is to officially begin writing the screenplay of what will be “neither a recap or continuation” of the 1997 film adaptation flop, and is instead described as a “standalone story that will be R-rated. Creepy and scary.”
This would keep in line with McFarlane’s previous claims that he wanted this picture to avoid the general conception of a superhero good guy vs. a superhero baddie. It’s my guess, he wants to make a movie like The Punisher in tone. Though McFarlane himself name-drops The Departed.
I’ve never seen Spawn or read any of the comics material… so I got nothing on this one. I was hoping you guys could enlighten me on whether this is a movie that is worth tracking.
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I enjoyed the first one and spawn is an interesting character so i could watch another one.
I should be getting paid for pulling up memories of 90s era comics.
They did have many arcs or isssue were Spawn was a secondary/third character simply being a shadowy figure over an abnormal investigation the police were on. Then he’d come in at the end up finish the job.
Todd McFarlane was a great artist at Marvel who left to form Image so he could be more free artistically. He created Spawn and stopped drawing him after a year or so. He continued writing the comic for quite some time but that was never really his strong suit. Spawn is pretty much a one note character and the movie was pretty cheesy except for John Leguizamo’s take on the creepy Clown character. The only news more disturbing than this is that someone is actually planning on making a movie out of Rob Liefeld’s horrendous Youngblood series from Image. I will confess that HBO’s animated Spawn series starring Keith David was fairly decent.
I think there’s probably a great SPAWN movie out ther somewhere.
The fist film wasn’t that bad actually, no one seen it though.
I think he deserves another chance.
The first Spawn movie wasn’t that bad if you look at it from just a film standpoint. Once you start comparing it to the comic though, you realize just how horrible of a job they did in translating it to the screen. I think Michael Jai White could have made a great Al Simmons, he has the ability to pull off that “military bad ass” look really well. Just the script for that movie was horrible. They tried to take a story that should have been strung across a series of movies and crammed it all into the space of 2 hours. Seriously, the whole first season of the HBO cartoon was pretty much the basic plot for the movie.
If they do remake it, do an original story idea within the Spawn universe. That way you can do a quick origin type thing to open it, or gradually do it via flashbacks throughout the flick to explain why Spawn is the way he is. Point is, that Spawn can absolutely lend itself to a great action flick if done well.
If Spawn is to have a new movie then he deserves the big budget treatment.