‘Spawn’ – Todd McFarlane on When/If The Film Could Happen

If we had to bet money that Todd McFarlane’s Spawn film starring Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Renner is actually going to happen, we might just put the money into a conservative mutual fund instead. It’s a film that has been in the works for years, but that has always seemed to have something get in the way. In a new interview with Newsarama, it looks like Todd still has hope for the film, and a lot of that hope is based on the success that Joker Had in the box office. Here’s what he told the outlet about the status of the live-action comic book adaptation.

“When I was at New York Comic Con, Joker came out and Hollywood has a penchant for looking at what works, then doing it 10 times over. This movie opened up, then made a billion dollars which is still 33% bigger than any other R-rated movie in the history of cinema. So, Hollywood is on the go for R-rated comic book stuff, right? The phone has been ringing and I’ve got lots of people thinking about Spawn now. There’s a different momentum happening right now and in the next month, I should have another big announcement about the movie.”

While that is all well and good, even McFarlane seems to acknowledge that there’s a running clock on Spawn being a viable film project:

“The window is open right now and if I can’t pull it off this year, it’s only going to get harder, right? I’m confident enough that it’s going to work, but give me a month.”