We were all first introduced to Sam and Twitch in the first issues of Spawn in the early 90's. The odd couple detective duo of Sam Burke and Maximillian "Twitch" Williams had the unenviable task of trying to figure out just who was killing the city's bums and who or what Spawn was.
Now, years later the duo's very own four issue miniseries from Image Comics is wrapping up. "Sam & Twitch: The Writer," finds the pair on the trail of a serial killer who physically writes a continuing story on his victims bodies.
CBR talked with Mcfarlane about the series and in typical McFarlane fashion he told them that he is developing a live-action one hour Sam and Twitch television series with "a big time producer."
This from Todd McFarlane....
"It would be an hour-long drama with a little bit of the mystique stuff in it. Twitch, more than Sam, sort of understands that there are odd things in New York that come as a byproduct of the melting pot. Everybody brings their culture and their beliefs and their superstitions with them, so part of their job is to wade through what's fact and what's fiction, because people get worked up over things. Every now and then, the stuff that they come across is inexplicable. But Twitch, to me, is the kid from 'The Sixth Sense,' now grown up. He's now an adult and has to deal with seeing things off and on his whole life, so now he sort of understands it. Sam still doesn't quite go for the ride, but because he has so much respect for Twitch, he'll trust Twitch when he says, 'I'm telling you something.'"
"At times, we've gone in and pitched it as sort of 'Hill Street Blues' meets 'The X-Files' without it being that crazy and that obvious. It's not that kind of stuff. It's the stuff where you go, 'The room was locked and the windows were locked and everything was locked from the outside. Somebody couldn't get out, but we found a dead body on the 21st floor and the autopsy says that they drowned to death, and by the way, it's salt water. What the hell does that mean?'