Todd MacFarlane is ready to make a Spawn movie if Hollywood doesn’t

Every two years or so, Todd McFarlane would promise that it didn’t really exist new Spawn films completely it will happen! And each time, it started to look less and less like a sure thing, even as Hollywood was more than willing to get a makeover with it. Literally nothing else To the big or small screen at the right time.

After years of false starts, the founder of Image Comics seems to have made it. In a recent interview with Character bookHe declared that 2024 would be a “make or break” year for Spawn Click. “I’m trying to see if we can get the right deal within the parameters of the Hollywood structure,” he explained. He already has a potential candidate in Jason Blum, whom he described as “one of the best candidates” in the Hollywood system at getting films into theaters. (See: Blumhouse’s steady pace of moderate-budget releases in recent years.) Blum has been attached to the film Since 2017MacFarlane intended to read the scripts to those connected to the project (who “promised” him he could, he noted) sometime this month… right after he sent out emails reminding them.

Should this fail? The creator says he has “a lot of outside investors waiting” and hopes they can make it happen. He said there were “a lot of examples” of filmmakers who went outside the normal channels to make their films, and he was more than willing to go that route. He likened it to independent films: “You make your film, and you just find your distributor. I can do it in a heartbeat.” Either way, he hopes to find a solution that ensures the survival of everyone involved in the project over the years.

Should MacFarlane get that? Spawn The film is in production, and the next question is who will play the titular hero. Jamie Foxx was announced as the leader along the way Back in 2018He remained attached to the project while working on it Other movies And mid-2023 he is still in the hospital Gradually recover from. But last November, the actor was beaten lawsuit Alleging that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2015. He later denied the allegations, and at the time of writing, no further news on the matter has been revealed. Several projects he has been involved in are currently in post-production, although none are close enough to release as a decision has been made on how to handle their release in light of the lawsuit.

(via GamesRadar)

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