Spawn producer Jason Blum has offered a new update on Todd McFarlane’s Spawn movie, which he has been trying to get make for over a decade. Fans have wondered if this movie will actually ever really get made, but Blum assures that the movie is in “very, very active development.” During a recent interview with CB, he was asked about the project and this was his response:
“I would say you have a lot to hope for. What needs to happen is that my fellow friends, the writers, and the studios need to figure out their differences and get back to writing, but we’ve got a great group of folks putting it together, and my hope is that that movie – my prediction is maybe we’ll actually see a Spawn movie in ’25. No promises, but that’s my prediction.”
The script for the film was being worked on by Scott Silver (Joker), Malcolm Spellman (Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Captain America: New World Order), and rising scribe Matt Mixon. Jamie Foxx was also still attached to take on the role of Spawn, and while McFarlane was looking to direct it, he previously acknowledged that he may not be the right person for the job. He previously said:
“If we’ve got an A-list actor, A-list producers, A-list writers, then do you want to shoot for A-list directors, A-list cinematographers? The answer is, ‘of course.’ Let’s keep the momentum going.”
McFarlane previously said that it’s now or never to get his movie made, and explained:
“Something’s going to give in the next few months, right? There’s too many people pushing in that direction, again I’ve got a call later today on that very subject. You can imagine Spider-Man makes a billion dollars and everybody sort of gets sort of… I mean they were already crazy, now they just got twice as crazy. I mean they got crazy when the only movies that were making money were superheroes, and then Venom goes and rocks it, and then Spider-Man comes in and obliterates it, so now they’re almost singular in their mindset of what kind of ideas they’ve got. So something has to happen. We’ll never get to the top of the mountain if we can’t do it now, with everybody wanting to do it now. Fingers crossed. I would say it’s now or never.”
I’m a fan of McFarlan’s vision and pitch for the film, and it’s previously been described as “Spawn meets David Fincher” and a “gritty” and “dirty thing.” When previously talking about his take on the story, McFarlane explained:
“There’s two big roles in the script. There’s obviously sort of Spawn himself, although in a weird way it’s not the biggest role, and then there’s the cop. The cop is this character Twitch who’s been there since issue #1. Twitch is the role in this one, and I sort of refer to him as my sheriff Brody, who is the sheriff in the Jaws movie. Although it was called Jaws, Jaws didn’t really talk a lot in his movie, right? He just kind of showed up at the opportune time to make the movie worthwhile.”
Producer Jason Blum also previously said of the project: “What excited me about it is that Spawn is kind of the last great unexploited comic. So that seemed like an amazing opportunity. It’s taken longer than I hoped it would have to get the story right, but we’re still working on it.” Blum also said that the reboot is “gonna be very different, it’s gonna be very edgy.”
While I do hope this movie gets made, after all these years, it’s hard to believe that it will ever go into production.