Todd McFarlane Says Spawn Reboot Script Has Been Completed
David Gelmini
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Believe it or not, the Spawn movie will turn 19 this year. Every so often we hear rumblings of a reboot, but nothing has materialised yet. But something may be stirring soon, as creator Todd McFarlane has now completed a script of around 183 pages, which he will try to trim before sending to studios. He also hopes to keep the film tight and low-budget so that he will have the chance to direct it himself.
Speaking to Peel the Orange, he was also quoted as saying that production could start as early as this year, and that it won’t be another traditional superhero tale, but something much darker:
I’d put it more into horror/suspense/supernatural genre. In the background, there’s this thing moving around, this boogeyman. That boogeyman just happens to be something that you and I, intellectually, know is Spawn. Will he look like he did in the first movie? No. Will he have a supervillain he fights? No. He’s going to be the spectre, the ghost.
I think they all work because there’s only one thing in the movie that’s not normal. There’s not five things; there’s one thing that’s the boogeyman. So that’ll be Spawn. He’s this thing that just whooshes in, this ghost that moves and will fuck you up if you’re in the wrong place in the wrong time, and the rest of the movie will look real and be this real drama. He’s just this ghost, this thing behind it.
So there you have it. We may be seeing Al Simmons’ story on the big screen again, and sooner than expected. Just don’t cast John Leguizamo as the Clown this time.
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