Todd McFarlane's long-gestating Spawn movie is reportedly back on track with a new screenwriter, but even if it's a reboot ignoring the previous adaptation, there'd be no better person to star in the lead role than Michael Jai White. In the original Spawn, which was released in 1997, White starred as Al Simmons, the man who dies and comes back to Earth as the titular vigilante Hellspawn. There were early plans for a sequel following Spawn's release, but the project died in development hell.

In the years since, McFarlane has been working on getting a new live-action adaptation of Spawn off the ground. There were reports of Jamie Foxx boarding the project in 2018 to play a new incarnation of Al Simmons with plans to shoot in 2019, but for whatever reason, that date came and went with no real progress made on the project. Producer Jason Blum told ComicBook.com the...