Todd McFarlane's Ready to Make the Spawn Movie If Hollywood Won't

Todd MacFarlane's Spawn in Mortal Kombat 11.
Todd MacFarlane's Spawn in Mortal Kombat 11.
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Every other year or so, Todd McFarlane has promised that no, really, the new Spawn movie’s totally going to happen! And each time, it’s started to feel less and less like a sure thing, even as Hollywood’s been more than willing get adaptations for literally anything else to the big or small screen in a timelier manner.

After years of false starts, it sounds like the Image Comics founder has had it. In a recent interview with ComicBook, he declared that 2024 would be a “make or break” year for a Spawn flick. “I’m trying to see if we can make the right deal within the norm of the Hollywood structure,” he explained. He’s already got a potential candidate in Jason Blum, who he called “one of the better ones” in the Hollywood system at getting movies off the ground and into theaters. (See: Blumhouse’s steady pace of moderately budgeted releases in recent years.) Blum’s been attached to the film since 2017, and McFarlane’s meant to reading scripts to those attached to the project (who “promised” him he could, he noted) sometime this month...right after he sends out emails reminding them of that.

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