Todd McFarlane About The Lessons He's Learned Getting New Spawn Movie On Track
Todd McFarlane's new Spawn reboot from Blumhouse recently added top-tier talent with some serious comic book adaptation roots to its roster. Scott Silver, who helped pen Joker; Malcolm Spellman, who is soon writing the fourth Captain America movie; and up-and-comer Matt Mixon have signed on to bring Spawn back from the dead once again.
The long-running comic book series has already spawned a live-action movie back in 1997 starring Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen, and John Leguizamo, as well as an animated series by HBO that came about at the same time. McFarlane expressed his excitement about the new additions to the project last week and is ready to get to work on this Spawn reboot, and said the collaboration process so far has been stellar.
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«Everybody wants the same thing: we want the best possible movie that will reach a global audience,» the Spawn creator McFarlane told GameSpot at New York Comic-Con. «If we have a successful movie I'm going to say that 99.5 percent of people have never heard of Spawn or read a Spawn comic book because somebody out there doesn't buy comics.»
«What will matter to them will be them seeing 'from the producer of', 'from the director of', 'co-creator of Venom' and all come together to make this thing, 'what is it called? Spam? Prawn? Oh, Spawn!' So they might not know who Scott Silver is, but they know Joker. They don't know Malcolm Spellman, but they know Falcon and Winter Solider, or by that time Captain America 4. We'll keep adding these A-list people behind the camera [and] we'll have A-list casting by the time it's all put together.»
McFarlane had actually written a treatment for the movie, originally intended to be more of a
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