After years of talking about it, a brand newSpawnmovie is finally coming from creator Todd McFarlane. During San Diego Comic-Con it was announced that he has inked adeal with Blumhouseto produce the R-ratedSpawnmovie, with McFarlane writing and directing. This movie is going to live or die by his vision, which is the way he wants it. Speaking of that vision, it turns out that his vision to some degree includes Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. Or the lead role in his script was at least inspired by the Oscar-winning actor.
Shortly after the announcement of theSpawnmovie was made, Todd McFarlane spoke withVulturea little bit about his upcoming movie, which actually won’t feature the title character as the lead. Instead,Spawnwill be a terrifying figure lurking in the background, with the character Twitch, who has been around since the first issue of theSpawncomic, taking the lead. It turns out that McFarlane took a lot of inspiration while writing the script for this version ofTwitchfrom Leonardo DiCaprio inThe Wolf of Wall Street. Here’s what he had to say about it.
“When I was writing, I had Leonardo DiCaprio in my head. don’t know if people have seen The Wolf of Wall Street, but there is a manicness in him. He was going up and down and up and down. It was almost dizzying emotionally to go with him. There are parts in this movie where I’m going to need an actor to make those moves both in terms of normality, and in terms of manic, and in terms of anger and in terms of joy and be able togo to some extremesin it.”
It doesn’t sound like he has any delusions of DiCaprio actually signing up to do this thing, but he certainly isn’t shying away from throwing a big name out there. Why not go big?Spawnis going to be nothing like most comic book movies.Todd McFarlane has explainedthat this is going to be a straight-up horror movie and that the title character is going to be more akin to the shark fromJaws, but with asupernatural element, than he will be to your average superhero. It is going to be R-rated, scary and also made on the cheap. Whereas most superhero movies have budgets in the $100 million range,Spawnis said to be aiming for a budget of $10 million or so.
