Get ready for a very different kind of superhero movie, folks. Todd McFarlane, after years of working on it, talking about it and trying to make it happen, is finally making hisSpawnmovie. Blumhouse Productions, the studio behindThe PurgeandGet Out, signed a deal during San Diego Comic-Con to let McFarlane direct the movie, which is going to hopefully be a drastic improvement over the maligned 1997 live-actionSpawn. Now, Blumhouse head Jason Blum has given some details on the upcomingUntitled Spawn Rebootreboot, describing it as a low-budget superhero movie.
Jason Blumrecently spoke with Collider while promotingThe Horrors of Blumhousemaze that will be part of Universal Studios' Hollywood Horror Nights. During the conversation, he spoke a little bit about theSpawnreboot, calling it a very “different” superhero movie, even if he wasn’t willing to go into specifics beyond the budget. Here’s what he had to say about it.
“ThisSpawn movieis a kind of superhero movie, but a very different kind of feeling superhero movie. I like the idea of low-budget superhero movies. It’s cool.”
This in some ways echoes what Todd McFarlane has said about hisSpawnreboot in the past. Even before Blumhouse agreed to produce the movie, he said that he wanted the movie to be low-budget so that it wouldn’t come with the financial risk associated with youraverage comic book movie. However, he has generally said that it is going to be more of a horror movie and not a superhero movie, withSpawnserving more likeJawsas opposed to your typical Marvel hero.
During the interview, Jason Blum was also asked about anycomic book story arcsthat are going to be infused into thisSpawnreboot. Todd McFarlane createdSpawnand has been writing issues of the book off and on for years, so he knows the character well and has crafted many storylines that could be utilized in this new movie. Blum didn’t offer specifics, but he did say that McFarlane is going to pull from the comic books for the movie.
“Yeah, for sure. Todd [McFarlane] is doing it. He’s directing it, which is very cool, so we definitely will.”
Beyond the low-budget superhero movie aspect of theSpawnreboot, not much else has officially been revealed. We know that it is going to be R-rated and thatTodd McFarlane is writing, directing and producingit, which means it will live or die by his hand. Blumhouse has yet to set a release date for the movie, but when McFarlane made the announcement he said that they are “going into production,” which makes it seem like the project isn’t going to spend a ton of time sitting in development. Since a script for the movie was already completed when Blumhouse came on board, it makes sense that things could move forward quickly with this new take onSpawn. If this is successful, it will certainly force other studios to look at the superhero genre and see if there are ways to make more low-budget comic book movies that pack the same punch.
