By “Spawn” creator Todd McFarlane has offered an update on how the long-gestating new film adaptation of his comic is going.
The project has been at Blumhouse since 2017, the script having gone through multiple revisions and writers. McFarlane was long insistent on directing himself softened his stance on that front.
In October last year, Blum made the pledge that a “Spawn” film will come in 2025, saying “I stand by that” multiple times during an interview for “The Exorcist: Believer”.
This week, McFarlane tells ComicBook.com the film is apparently in the final stages of the script being ready:
“[Producer] Jason Blum is one of the better ones at getting things done. They tell me I get to read the script this month. The email is going out this week to remind them that they promised me that.
Something’s gotta happen. Something’s gonna happen. I just know myself, something’s gonna happen ’cause if I can’t figure it out inside [the Hollywood system], I’ll figure it out [independently]. I just know myself. But hopefully we can figure out a deal that keeps all the parties that have been involved over the years involved.”
In the comics, Spawn is a former black-ops agent who makes a deal with a demon after being betrayed and killed. The demon allows him to return to Earth, but when he returns, five years have passed, his wife has moved on and he roams Earth as a disfigured spawn of hell.
At last report, writers Scott Silver, Malcolm Spellman and Matt Mixon were all linked to pen the new script.
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