Apr 30 2009Spawn 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.
Reader Comments
1. Elmo - April 30, 2009 1:49 PM
uh oh................
2. Kay - April 30, 2009 1:51 PM
All right! Spawn kicks ass!
3. Elmo - April 30, 2009 1:53 PM
OK I'm an ass! First!
and- they need Nolan to make a Spawn movie...
4. SomethingSomethingDarkside - April 30, 2009 2:03 PM
My willy is dirty :(
5. Brandon - April 30, 2009 2:23 PM
I like Spawn as a character. But that movie sucked.
6. Sirus - April 30, 2009 2:28 PM
I'll agree the last movie was pretty bad, but the spawn character is so awesome! I think if done right it could be a good movie.
7. Skroonk - April 30, 2009 2:40 PM
FIRST!.... shit.
8. GET IN LINE IM FIRST UH HUH - April 30, 2009 2:41 PM
Clown is just a cross between Penguin and Joker. Spawn is just a super-powered Batman. Panty lines. I like them.
9. Tom - April 30, 2009 3:36 PM
Okay, this day has actually been debated for a while between my brother and I. Quite personally, I think Spawn has lost its chance for being the pg-13 special effects mess that it was but if Mr. Todd actually wants to give it another try then I'll see it... under a few conditions:
1) This is Spawn. Story of a man who made a deal with the DEVIL so he could come back to see his wife only to later realize his mistake and vow to fight the devil. This is and should stay rated R. Lets NOT try to include the kiddies this time. They had their chance. That chance was wasted.
2) Keep the damn mask on! I don't really remember batman fighting crime only to take a breather every other minute from his rubber exterior. Which, of course would actually make more sense then a demon doing it seeing a dead guy shouldn't really be bothered by it! Not to mention I don't remember a single super hero movie being good at all when they decided to do that (See: Spider-Man 3 with Venom)
3) (a personal nerdy thing) When the mask is off, lets make it that his eyes are pure green. I don't know why, but it bugged the sh!t out of me seeing a zombie like guy with pretty green pupily eyes.
4)replace the entire cast (which i assume will be done) EXCEPT for John Leguizamo as The Clown. Oddly enough, he was the best part of that movie. Not just because everyone else was just that terrible but I actually felt he pulled off the Clown perfectly. I still can't believe that it was Mr. Leguizamo playing that role. He really was great.
5) finally, to anyone else who saw this movie, didn't Violator seem... wrong? I can't completely put my finger on it but I feel they really screwed up Clown's other half. Lets make sure that's done right.
If Fantastic 4 is getting such an early reboot then I can't see why not Spawn. If these simple suggestions are used then I think that its a good start to doing this movie right and making it good!
10. GiantDrunkenRobot - April 30, 2009 3:48 PM
Since the trailer uses Peter "Optimus Prime" Cullen for the hype-man voiceover, I was almost swayed to give a shit.
11. Eric - April 30, 2009 4:16 PM
The Departed Spawn. Sure, it makes sense, Martin Sheen was in both movies.
12. jim - April 30, 2009 4:58 PM
You haven't seen anything until you've seen Macho Man Randy Savage take a bong rip of salvia and TOTALLY LOSE HIS SH*T:
http://www.digitalfuntown.com/videos/166
13. Kobo - April 30, 2009 5:28 PM
Todd comes around every couple of years and quotes that his movie is going to be like (Insert movie) with Spawn.
It was the movie "Seven" years ago and Spawn wasn't going to utter a word and it was going to be on screens by 2007. Now it's the Departed. I'll believe there is another movie when It appears on the screen.
14. Jason G - April 30, 2009 5:28 PM
I like Spawn but thought that he only belonged in Comic and animated form. The movie was pretty bad (even though it was faithful to the source material) and had I seen that trailer before the movie came out I would have never seen it.
Not at all interested in a reboot.
15. wanda - April 30, 2009 6:11 PM
Well, McFarlane just fired most of his teams on both the east coast and in Arizona. Why not one last attempt at relevancy.
16. vhw - April 30, 2009 6:14 PM
man, that was an AWFUL trailer.
the animated series (at least the first season) was way better than the movie.
17. Beastman AIDS - April 30, 2009 6:21 PM
I'm sorry but spawn kicks ass and when the movie came out it also kicked ass (I was pretty young when it was released).
I'm all over a new spawn movie like a fly on poo.
18. Sakura - April 30, 2009 7:57 PM
I used to pretend my boyfriend was Spawn during sex. And the number of times I got off thinking about the numerous shapes and functions a devil cape... Yeah.
19. Sakura - April 30, 2009 7:58 PM
Spawn the movie is EVERYONE'S guilty pleasure... Just admit it.
20. 1manarmy - April 30, 2009 8:57 PM
That shitty movie is exactly why Spawn should be remade. He's a cool character and he deserves a good movie. Lets hope they do this one right this time.
21. Mr. Stratford - April 30, 2009 9:24 PM
Do we have to worry? I thought Todd McFarlane just says crap like that every couple years or so.
22. rockosolido - April 30, 2009 10:08 PM
@Sakura;
You better not be fat because I'm masturbating to you right now. Eh, you're probably fat...but I'm not going to stop.
23. Serious Business - May 1, 2009 12:17 AM
OMGAWD. The Spawn movie was playing in this bar I was in tonight, but I was too freakin' drunk to tell what the hell was going on. (It looked long and like a comic book.)
@ 18 Sakura, lol, My girl friend tells me about how her boy friend looks like Wolverine all the time and f*cks like a stallion... And all I can do is politely giggle and cry my self to sleep at night alone and jealous.
24. Matt - May 1, 2009 2:36 PM
I agree with what a lot of people have said here. Spawn is a fucking AWESOME character with an AWESOME story. But the first movie just sucked really really bad. He deserves a reboot and I'll check it out.
25. ugh - May 3, 2009 12:47 PM
"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. "
Yeah right, McFarlane... Spawn was amazing, but McFarlane is a fucking douche.
26. Cannibal Shogun - May 6, 2009 11:16 AM
It's going to be like The Departed? So it's going to be a shot for shot remake of an asian film directed by someone with way more skills than those required to do a remake?
27. Frank - May 7, 2009 4:31 PM
@Cannibal Shogun: It's going to be a remake that's better than the original? Let's hope.