Spawn Driving His Cape-Shielded Motorcycle Back to Screens
Comic fans surely remember Spawn, the flamboyantly costumed, chain-covered comic book hero who, like the majority of '90s-invented superheroes drowning in x-treme accessories, you eventually realized was completely idiotic. His luxuriously-caped image has been slowly fading as his pricey action figures, still mint in-package, gather dust in geek closets everywhere, so creator Todd McFarlane and, apparently, executives at five studios, have decided it's just about time for a big screen Spawn comeback. As McFarlane told IESB:
Right now, I literally have five [Spawn movie] offers on the table--everything from the big studios and the big-budgeted, big production with a lot of special effects to, where I'm leaning, which is actually sort of a smaller budget.It's not gonna be a superhero versus supervillain or any of that stuff. It's gonna be a tight movie--think of The Departed with something sort of moving in the shadows a little bit.
The Departed, with Spawn. Yeah, I'm sure you'll deftly achieve that, Todd McFarlane, and with enough Spawn costume changes to warrant an entire line of highly-detailed action figures. I only worry that a small budget won't allow for the amount of exaggerated, CGI cape billowing required to be true to the character's stupid cape.
As a reminder, this was the last attempt at a Spawn movie:
Defense of Spawn may now commence, but you aren't allowed to participate if you own any of those shiny, short-sleeve, button-up shirts with Spawn on them.