Spawn's Movie Reboot Movie Can Succeed (If It Copies Iron Man)
Todd McFarlane's Spawn movie reboot has encountered several roadblocks on its journey to production, but the project has an opportunity to become a big success — provided it takes a page out of Marvel Studios' Iron Man. The film, which McFarlane (who also created the character) plans to direct, attracted A-list talent in the form of Jamie Foxx as the titular character and Jeremy Renner as Twitch Williams, a detective from the Spawn comics. Despite said updates, though, the film (which is being produced by Blumhouse Productions) has not gotten off the ground.
McFarlane has alluded to the delays stemming from studios being somewhat hesitant to develop his take on the project. Over the years, the creator has openly expressed his desire to make his reboot the hard-R horror film that the PG-13 1997 Spawn superhero movie was not; one that treats its titular character (a.k.a. Al Simmons) not as a superhero, but as an elusive darkness dweller. The idea is promising, but at the current stage of superhero media, where superhero films and TV series unabashedly embrace their characters' larger-than-life roots, McFarlane's intent for Al Simmons is not necessarily the right approach. Instead, Spawn should take a cue from the first Iron Man film.
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Iron Man was a fairly niche character before his film premiered in 2008, but Marvel Studios turned him into a phenomenon by giving his live-action iteration a hook. He was not a typical superhero; unlike characters like Spider-Man or Superman, Tony Stark was a staunch narcissist who, through an arduous journey, learned to put others' interests ahead of his own. The hook was present visually as well, as the House of Ideas embraced the character's
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