“The simple answer is yes [regarding a new Spawn film]”. While there is now no actual plans set in stone for his Spawn reboot, McFarlane was recently featured on Kevin Smith’s AMC program Geeking Out and promised a “dark, R-rated, scary, badass sort of script”.
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McFarlane added that he’s already mostly done with the writing, which he referred to as “a dark, R-rated, scary, badass sort of script”, and said that he’s just sitting in the editing process right now.
Todd McFarlane went on to compare the new Spawn movie to The Exorcist where everything in the movie was real except that one thing, the girl.
A report in February via ComicBook.com described the Spawn character as a spectre or ghost.
Earlier this year, McFarlane told the outlet that he already had completed a script for the reboot, which suggests filming may not be too far off.
“In the background, there’s this thing moving around, this boogeyman”.
Over the weekend, Todd McFarlane, creator of Spawn, revealed he was hard at work on a live-action Spawn script, which we’ve been hearing for a while. That boogeyman just happens to be something that you and I, intellectually, know is Spawn. “It’s 183 pages, and [producers] usually like 120”.
Spawn, which first launched in 1992, has been one of the only continuous comic book series still being published that Image Comics has had on its roster.
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Hosted by Kevin Smith (Comic Book Men, Clerks) and Greg Grunberg (Heroes, Lost, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens and graphic novel Dream Jumper), Geeking Out is a 30-minute talk show that takes a timely look at pop culture through a fanboy lens and features celebrity interviews, discussion and out-of-the-studio segments.
