Apr 30 2009 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:

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Aug 23 2007 Toy-based Wizard of Oz on Its Way!

Todd McFarlane and History of Violence writer Josh Olson have revealed plans for a new take on The Wizard of Oz based on McFarlane's horror versions of the toys (above). This will allow the toymaker to make new toys based on the movie based on the toys.

The two went on to say Dorothy would actually be nothing at all like the hyper-sexualized bondage toy but be more of a bad-ass like Ripley in Alien, and the whole thing will have a "2007 wow factor" that will try to get the Lord of the Rings audience. If that means armies of thousands of Muchkins versus hordes of flying monkeys, I might just forgive the fact that McFarlane is still releasing Spawn toys for some reason. Honestly, who is buying these?