Todd McFarlane To Write, Direct & Produce A New ‘Spawn’ Film?
Whilst at the red carpet premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Spawn creator and legendary all-things-fanboy-inspiring Todd McFarlane has provided insight into his intentions towards the production of a new Spawn film.
“Right now I literally have five offers on the table,” he told IESB. “Everything from the big studio’s, and the big budgeted, you know, big production with a lot of special effects…to where I’m leaning which is actually, sort of a smaller budget, just keep it down, keep it dark, keep it grungy.”
He continues, “I mean I’ve got two teenage daughters and I’m trying to come up with an idea that I’ve been living with for ten years that would actually get them and their dates to go to it. It’s not a comic book movie, its just a scary movie, a creepy movie that happens to have..everythings real except for one element..which happens to be the character we know as Spawn…so it’s not going to be a supervillain versus superhero or any of that stuff, it’s just gonna be a tight movie..think of Departed..with something moving in the shadows a little bit.”
Despite potential big-budget offers, McFarlane is keen to do his creation justice by retaining complete control over the direction the new film takes.
“Problem is, if I go big, they’ll only let me produce it. If I go small, they’ll let me write and direct it. So I gotta get it down small enough, which is the idea I’ve had, which basically keeps it small enough that they’ve gotta go get a schmuck director..and I’ll go, ‘well I’ll be the schmuck’.”
So either the studios lose a cash cow, or they hand McFarlane a big-budget deal that let’s him write, produce and direct it. We love indie films, but when it comes to a potential Spawn remake, we’d love to see it done properly. Hopefully the studios will listen and give McFarlane a big budget and the entire helm.
You can watch the full interview at IESB.
