Spawn

[The NZA]

New Spawn movie annouced by Todd Mcfarlane

 

Just announced at a panel at Emmeral City comic con. More news at SDCC. It's going to be hard R and supposedly stan lee will have a cameo. They jokingly said i'll be a hard R then Logan or Deadpool.

 

here's to hoping michael jai white gets another shot! (he won't)

 

 

 

[Da Cap'n 2099]

Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen and John Leguizamo better have cameos.

[Drifter]

The live action movie needed more cowbell cape

[Mr. Hakujin]

Damn! I completely forgot Spawn did hamburger face in film before Deadpool. But I guess Freddy Kruger did it before both of them, so whatever.

Did anyone here actually watch the HBO show? I heard good things about it, but by the time it rolled around to DVD I'd lost interest in the character.

[FireDownBelow]

Viewed through the lens of a pre-teen, it was great. I don't know how it would hold up now that I can pass as an adult.

[Drifter]

Animation is very 90s, think X-men and WildCATS 90s cartoons. The plot is very good, adult oriented in it's themes and language (within reason, HBO at the time didn't like to show animated Child Murder); it also has a bit of a Aeon Flux feel to the story's atmosphere, but then again they have the voice actor for Trevor Goodchild voicing the big bad Director Wynn, and thankfully they didn't pussify the character this time either... I'm sorry, not even in Apocalypse Now have I found Martin Sheen even remotely threatening or sinister.

[The NZA]

i think the animated holds up, but man, Todd's intros were cringey back then, so they must be amazing now

[Little Nemo McFly]

About freakin' tiiime! I've been waiting forever for an official announcement! I remember a time when we were supposed to be getting a 'Sam and Twitch' spin-off film.

 

The HBO animated series is what the movie should've been - a hard-R adaption. The biggest flaw the movie had was the mass-market approach...ultimately a McFarlane decision. More ticket sales meant more money - and I guess that was his objective. It was a different time, there weren't 'superheroes' like that - the hard-R stuff...to me...was synonymous w/ that cape. So hyped for the live-action adaption! (sigh) So watered down and tame.

 

Still, got it on blu - I love early attempts @ superhero film-adaptions...'specially w/ primitive cg...but, damn - that Hell sequence and Malebolgia were just...awful. Even more painful knowing that was ILM and how nice Violator looked during that alley brawl. Now, any comic book can be adapted...and be as hard-R as it wants. Great time to reintroduce Spawn.

 

I want a legit tone adaption w/ that cape...HBO made it work.

[Mr. Hakujin]

Looks like 100% approval for the animated series in here. I have HBO GO, so there's no real excuse for me to not at least try to give it a shot now.

[Visitant]

I was obsessed with the HBO show as a kid. I was really into Spawn back then...but those were simpler times. It'll take a lot for me to really get on board with a reboot/relaunch movie of spawn.

[Keth]

Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen and John Leguizamo better have cameos.

 

Hell, John should just come back to play the Clown. He doesn't seem too busy.

[Da Cap'n 2099]

Hell, John should just come back to play the Clown. He doesn't seem too busy.

 

:(

 

So, I remember my brother and I used to stay up late to watch this. In the mornings, we'd run to Ariel's house (or Nick's) and compare notes. Remember, The Nick?

Edited March 8, 2017 by Da Cap'n 2099

[The NZA]

oh my god, i wonder if i still have that VHS i made then of taping the episodes, yeah

 

the blood & cussing in a cartoon (i don't think we knew about anime yet) was like OHHHHHHH

[Da Cap'n 2099]

BOOBIES!

[The NZA]

Todd McFarlane Talks About His ‘SPAWN’ Movie

 

''We just signed off on the script, and are going into budgeting. We’re also having our casting meeting…It will be dark and heavy, serious, R-Rated. It won’t be a superhero movie. I don’t think most people would categorize it as that. It will be a supernatural thriller, like a lot of good creep movies. The only thing in the movie that’s fantastic is Spawn, and anything else is otherwise normal.''

''We don’t want to muddy the waters. It’s R-rated. Not like “Deadpool,” where there was just a couple F-bombs and a naked butt. Not like “Logan” either… We’re talking trauma, true trauma, as serious as possible.

''I like to explain that it’s my “Jaws.” Spawn doesn’t say a word the entire movie, and it’s the same way with “Jaws.” It’s about the sheriff and the people, chasing the ghost. That’s it…The lead role isn’t Spawn, the lead role is a cop, like Sheriff Brody from “Jaws.” I think we can hook a fairly significant actor that we want. Unlike a superhero movie, we wouldn’t need an actor to put on prosthetic (makeup) or go to the gym. We just need him to act.''



McFarlane stopped just short of confirming the exact budget for the film, but $10 million sounds about right, and that should provide just enough special effects room for a few sentient cape and chain shots:

''It was a non-negotiable for me to write, produce and direct. If you make that demand in Hollywood, it’s reasonable somewhat if you have an $8 to $12 million budget as a newbie director. Otherwise if the budget were $100 million, then I said I want to direct it, as a CEO myself, I wouldn’t take that deal … A couple movies ago they came out with “Get Out,” and spent $4 million with Jordan Peele, a comedian, who wrote and directed it. Somebody took a chance on him and his vision…Jason (Blum’s) movie “Split” spent $11 million and that one made close to $300 million. That’s not bad.''

 

...this is never happening, is it 

[Little Nemo McFly]

[Keth]

Ugh, I hate that tweet. Not only would Deadpool be just fine as a PG-13 movie, that tweet is pretty out of character for DP. 

[The NZA]

 

[Da Cap'n 2099]

Sure, why not.

[Mr. Hakujin]

Academy Award Winner Jamie Foxx is . . . SPAWN!

 Yeah. I can dig it.

 

SPAWN Directed by Todd McFarlane.

 I've got a bad feeling about this.

[Visitant]

Literally nothing about this sounds good to me. Then again, has Spawn ever really been good aside from the HBO show? I say this as someone who did read a butt-load of Spawn as a kid. It's a really cool universe that just seems to get bogged down with shitty writing. 

 

Someone sell me on the Jamie Foxx thing, seriously. 

[Keth]

Todd Mcfarlane directing is way, way more worrisome than Jamie Foxx. 

Edited June 4, 2018 by Axels