"Spawn" returning to the big screen. McFarlane to direct and Blumhouse to produce.

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Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions are teaming up with Todd McFarlane to develop a new movie based on the comic book icon's creation, Spawn.

McFarlane has written the first draft of the script and is set to direct the project, marking a rare foray of a comic creator into the director's chair.

McFarlane became a comics superstar and one of its first artist-millionaires in the 1980s thanks to his work on Amazing Spider-Man and later was one of the founding artists of Image Comics with his creation, Spawn.

Spawn told of a black ops agent who is betrayed and killed, his soul sent to Hell for all the innocents he had killed. While there, he makes a deal with a demon who allows him to return to the earthly plane and his wife. However, five years have now passed and his wife has moved while he is a disfigured and super-powered spawn of Hell.

The comic was adapted into a New Line horror action movie that starred Michael Jai White, as well as an HBO cartoon series in the late 1990s.

McFarlane, who also became an entrepreneur with a high-end toy company, has been developing the new movie for some time and was shopping it in the spring, only recently bringing it to Blumhouse. The company is envisioning the new Spawn project as a low-budget horror movie.
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If there's three things you should keep in the 90's, it's JNCO jeans, Crystal Pepsi and Spawn.

I don't want a Spawn move in 2017 with Todd directing for the first time. Gimme a cartoon breh.
 
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mcfarlane has me :huhldup: and so does it being blumhouse.....i cant see this having the good enough budget for the effects and if the original got shytted on because of that i dont see how this one doesnt. They need to go the HBO show route and have him already as spawn tho. I dont need the setup and all that. If its not rated r i automatically dont give a fukk either
 
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Not sure how this is going to work. Blumhouse's calling card is low budget films that make bank. Spawn, if it's going to be done right, is going to need a relatively big budget. At the very least around what Deadpool got (aprox $60 million), but probably more considering they will be depicting hell and demons.

The largest production budget for any Blumhouse film is $10 million. So they would have to give out a budget 6 times bigger than their current largest budget to match Deadpool's budget.

But Blum did gross nearly $530 million for Split and Get Out this year alone, so maybe his production company will be ready to open the check book to jump into the comic book money-printing business.
 
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