Todd McFarlane’s Spawn has got a very impressive cast, a cool-sounding script and some kickass people behind the scenes. But while all the pieces are in place, the film has spent a very long time in development hell. Possibly because the movie has a rather out-there concept, McFarlane is having trouble getting a studio to finance it.
His plan is to treat Spawn like the shark in Jaws, a mostly off-screen presence constantly talked about but largely left to exist in the audience’s imaginations. A convenient side effect of this is that not having a hellfire-powered nightmare superhero on screen all the time saves on budget, which is why McFarlane hopes to convince studios that they should hand over the movie to him to direct as his debut feature.
But now, in a new interview with YouTube channel Be Terrific, it seems there’s light on the horizon,...
His plan is to treat Spawn like the shark in Jaws, a mostly off-screen presence constantly talked about but largely left to exist in the audience’s imaginations. A convenient side effect of this is that not having a hellfire-powered nightmare superhero on screen all the time saves on budget, which is why McFarlane hopes to convince studios that they should hand over the movie to him to direct as his debut feature.
But now, in a new interview with YouTube channel Be Terrific, it seems there’s light on the horizon,...
- 12/3/2019
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
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