Todd McFarlane says his SPAWN movie will be something ‘different’ and will tell a ‘dangerous’ story

Todd McFarlane keep talking about To produce film that he has been trying to make for a very long time. During a recent interview, he talks about working with Joker screenwriter Scott Silver and how they’re trying to do something different and stay away from everything Marvel has done. McFarlane told ScreenRant:

“The one thing that excites me in my conversations, and especially with Scott Silver, is that he is just determined – and don’t say this as a pun, literally – to want to do something different. In every conversation he simply says, “We can’t do Marvel light.” He doesn’t want to do horror because it’s something about him. He’s just struggling to try to see if we can do something a little different. … I’ve always said that when you try to do something different, you let the audience decide whether it’s better or worse, right? I am the paying customer.

McFarlane went on to say that Silver is trying to tell a dangerous story. He continued by saying:

“But he told me something the other day that I thought was almost perfect. She said, “I want to do a story that’s dangerous.” And she didn’t mean that there’s danger in the story, per se. She meant that it would be a little risky to make this movie because it wouldn’t be a simple formula, and I totally agree. I’m all for trying something different – ​​in his words, dangerous. This is music to my ears.

I would love nothing more than to see something other than a comic book superhero movie. While we’re in the midst of superhero fatigue, people are obviously willing to see the same story told over and over again. So yes! I’m ready for something different, dangerous and not like Marvel! I hope they can really pull it off and make a big success To produce movie.

Producer Jason Blum had already spoken about the film saying: “Yes, I will bring the Blumhouse touch [to the Spawn movie]. It will be edgy and original compared to other superhero films. It’s definitely going to feel like the Blumhouse version of a superhero movie.”

Jamie Foxx he’s still attached to the film and will later take on the role of Spawn, and recently speaking about Foxx’s involvement, McFarlane said: “As long as Jamie doesn’t say he can’t, he’s still my guy. I’m very loyal to people and Jamie was my boyfriend and he was my boyfriend. He had a little setback and says he will go back to the top of the mountain. I have no doubt. I know Jamie: he is a very strong-willed and determined human being. He then he says to me, “Don’t worry about me, Todd.” I’ll be there when the bell rings. I will be there.’ So I have complete and total confidence.”

McFarlane also spoke about whether it’s now or never to make his film, and explained: “Something’s going to give in the next few months, right? There’s too many people pushing in that direction, again I got a call later today because of this.” very topic. You can imagine Spider-Man makes a billion dollars and everyone kind of becomes… I mean, they were already crazy, now they’ve gone twice as crazy. I mean, they got crazy when the only movies that were making money were superheroes, and then Venom goes and smashes it, and then Spider-Man comes and crushes it, so now they’re kind of unique in their mentality about the kind of ideas that they have. So something has to happen. We’ll never get to the top of the mountain if we can’t do it now, with everyone wanting to do it now. Fingers crossed. I would say it’s now or never.”

The film was previously described as “To produce meet David Fincher” and a “bloody” and “dirty thing”. Speaking previously about his take on the story, McFarlane explained: “There are two important roles in the script. There’s obviously kind of Spawn himself, although in a strange way he’s not the most important role, and then there “He’s the cop. The cop is this Twitch character that’s been there since issue 1. Twitch is the role in that, and I kind of refer to him as my Sheriff Brody, who’s the sheriff in the movie Jaws. Although it was called Jaws, Jaws didn’t really talk much in his movie, right? It just came at the right time to make the movie worthwhile.”

McFarlane previously confirmed that the film will be rated R and that the script he wrote is “scary and “badass.” He described Spawn as the movie’s Jaws, saying: “The world will be real, except for one thing that happens . move. You’ll never see a guy in a rubber suit… This will be my Jaws shark.”

He explained his vision for the character, describing him as the boogeyman, and also shared some of the things we won’t see in the film: “In the background, there’s this thing moving, this boogeyman. That boogeyman It just seems to be something that you and I, intellectually, know Spawn is. Is it going to look the same as it did in the first movie? No. Is it going to have a supervillain that it fights? No. It’s going to be the wraith, the ghost.”

Producer Jason Blum he also previously said of the project: “What excited me is that Spawn is kind of the last great untapped comic book. So it seemed like an amazing opportunity. It took longer than I hoped to get the story right, but we’re still working on it.” Blum also said that the reboot “is going to be very different, it’s going to be very edgy.”