Todd McFarlane Explains SPAWN Writer Isn’t Satisfied With Script, Calls Him ‘Fearless’

Todd McFarlaneIt’s new To produce The film is still in development at Blumhouse and we have another update to share with you on the current status of the project.

This movie has been in development for so long, but McFarlane feels “more confident now” that it will actually happen than at any other point in the process, but the script isn’t ready yet.

The film was written by Joker AND The fighter writer Scott Silverand, apparently, he is not satisfied with the script that was written and they are still trying to perfect it. Other writers include Malcolm Spellman (Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Captain America: New World Order), and the nascent scribe Matt Mixon.

McFarlane explained in an interview with CB: “There’s a script but the writers are, they’re not entirely satisfied with their work, which is what all of us creatives are.

“We put it in black and white and then we criticize ourselves. So they’re going through some sort of extensive reworking and rewriting. I was on the phone just a couple of days ago with Scott Silver, the guy who’s kind of in charge right now.

“He is also the writer of Joker AND Joker 2. We’re all planning and hoping and moving towards this goal so we can push it forward so we can finally find our studio before Joker 2 launches in October.”

It seems like they’re very close to completing the script, and it would be a miracle if the project actually goes into production one day. The creative team just wants to make sure the story they tell works perfectly.

McFarlane went on to talk about some of the intense narrative conversations he had with Silver, calling him fearless. Silver is pushing for an ending to the story that “has meaning and purpose, not just that the good guy won.”

He said: “I wish everyone could listen to the conversation because he’s so passionate about what he’s talking about. He’s so absorbed in what he’s doing… It’s not that it’s really like that, I’m just trying to get it done. It’s not simply a story between good and bad…

“He said the other day, ‘I’d rather swing too big than not swing hard enough… He’s a little fearless and doesn’t want to replicate what he knows is kind of the safe, probably predictable path that most some people would follow because it’s the proven path, right?

“He just wants to bend it. He wants it because we’re going to make an R-rated movie and we’re going to do it and it can’t be mini-Marvel and mini-DC. He can not.”

Speaking previously about Silver’s work on the film, McFarlane said: “The one thing I’m excited about in my conversations, and especially with Scott Silver, is that he’s just determined – and don’t say this as a pun, literally – of wanting to do something different.

“In every conversation he would just say, ‘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, saying, “But he told me something the other day that I thought was almost perfect. He said, “I want to make a story that’s dangerous.” And he didn’t mean that there’s danger in the story, you see.

“He meant that it would be a little risky to make this film 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.

Producer Jason Blum he previously spoke 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.”

In the comics, Spawn is a former black ops agent who makes a deal with a demon after being betrayed and killed. The demon allows him to return to Earth, but when he returns, five years have passed, his wife has moved on, and he wanders the Earth like a disfigured spawn of hell.

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’s the policeman.

“The cop is this Twitch character that’s been around since issue #1. Twitch is the role in that, and I kind of refer to him as my Sheriff Brody, who is the sheriff in the movie Jaws. Even though he was called Jaws, Jaws didn’t say much in the movie about him, right? He just came along at the right time to make the film 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.”

I hope they actually pull it off and end up making a great Spawn movie!