Remember back in the day when Spawn was a cool comic book and the geeky buzz about a Spawn movie was enough to charge 100 city blocks? Well, something funny happened. The Spawn movie came out… and it sucked a great and mighty suck. I mean that flick was a horrid fetid steaming pile of washed down, prettied up, sanitized goo. All the style and tense undercurrent of the comic was somehow lost in a celluloid mess.
Ever since, we’ve heard about Todd McFarlane wanting to do another one. Lots of talk, very little movement. But now things are moving again… one his own.
Apparently Todd wants to make an R rated film… where Spawn doesn’t talk… has no cape… and is more “Like Crash than 300”. And surprise surprise, no studio wants to touch it… so he’s going it alone and planning on doing it independently. The good folks at Cinematical give us this:
We fans of the comic will get some “wink-wink” stuff in the movie, but otherwise it is a new movie for people unfamiliar with the character. There is no origin or Al Simmons at all. Basically it’s just a spooky horror movie for kids like his daughter. But it will be more real, according to McFarlane. He says the style will be more Crash than 300 and that the story will be like L.A. Confidential or The Godfather with “this little boogeyman in it — a moving shadow.”
Ummm… sure Todd. I mean, McFarlane is pretty much a creative force, and I respect the dude a lot… but this sounds kinda out there. I’ll try to give him the benefit of the doubt here though and withhold any judgment until we see if this actually goes anywhere. For now it’s all just talk… which is all another Spawn movie has been the last few years… and might be for years more to come.
