In couple of interviews, Todd McFarlane mentioned that he is trying to make a new
Spawn film and that he is writing a script. McFarlane said that it will won't a typical adaptation of this character, but something very different. How different you ask? Well, during New York Comic Con,
The Movie Blog had a chance to ask him couple of questions about the project, where he compared it to Martin Scorsese's
The Departed. More below...
On the status of the project:
All they’re waiting for is my script. As soon as I get my script, which could take me about 2 months if I’m not distracted, that’s always a good guess. I got the story, I’ve been living with the story for 10 years I know the story I got the story down… which is why they wanna make it! Cus, I keep pitching them the story and they go "Well, go write it Todd".
Apparently, it will be a more realistic story, with a "boogey man" in it:
You ever see the movie "The Departed"? It’s like the movie "The Departed" except there’s a boogey man in it. It won’t be a “superhero movie”. It’ll be sort of a suspense/thriller/drama. The only thing in the movie that will be out of the ordinary will be the "boogey man" that You and I know as “Spawn”. So, it’s not going to be "Spawn vs. a demon vs. Clown", they’re not going to do any of that. Think about it as "The Grudge". There’s only one thing in that movie the "boogey man" in that house, everything else in that is real in that movie so it’s like that. It’s more of a story movie.
Yeah, I honestly don't know what to think of this, really. What are your thoughts on a more realistic approach for this character?