Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 5:34:22 GMT
More details about the new 'Spawn' movie have come to light and Todd MacFarlane will be appearing in the movie. 
In Todd MacFarlane's Upcoming Spawn Movie, The Eponymous Hell Warrior Won't Speak
www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/01/in-todd-macfarlanes-upcoming-spawn-movie-the-eponymous-hell-warrior-wont-speak/
Todd McFarlane Is Going To Cameo In His 'Spawn' Movie
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In Todd MacFarlane's Upcoming Spawn Movie, The Eponymous Hell Warrior Won't Speak
In the upcoming Spawn reboot, Todd MacFarlane's upcoming movie about, er, Spawn, one important character will apparently have no speaking lines. Yeah, it's Spawn.
Image: Todd MacFarlane
In today's healthy dose of, "Wait, what?" Todd MacFarlane, Image Comics co-founder and inventor of the hellish anti-hero he's now producing a film about, told azcentral that his upcoming take on the character will be a bit different from how we've seen him before.
"Spawn doesn't say a word the entire movie," MacFarlane said, likening the film to Jaws, with Spawn himself in the role of the shark. "It's about teh sherrif and the people, chasing the ghost. That's it... The lead role isn't Spawffn, the lead role is a cop, like Sherriff Brody from Jaws."
MacFarlane went on to insist that the film wouldn't be a superhero movie at all, but instead a "supernatural thriller, like a lot of good creep movies," with Spawn himself as the only supernatural element. So I guess Spawn's traditional backstory, where he's an ex-CIA operative recruited by the literal devil to be a Galactus-style hell herald on earth, isn't going to make the cut this time around.
When the news came out that MacFarlane was rebooting Spawn, one assumed that Spawn would, y'know, talk in it. And while MacFarlane has downplayed the character's role in his own film in the past, it's still quite another thing to proclaim that his most famous character won't have single speaking line.
The film currently has no release date, although MacFarlane confirmed that they have moved into the casting stage of the film (guessing the Spawn audition will just involve a lot of menacing glares?), which he is set to write, produce, and direct.
Image: Todd MacFarlane
In today's healthy dose of, "Wait, what?" Todd MacFarlane, Image Comics co-founder and inventor of the hellish anti-hero he's now producing a film about, told azcentral that his upcoming take on the character will be a bit different from how we've seen him before.
"Spawn doesn't say a word the entire movie," MacFarlane said, likening the film to Jaws, with Spawn himself in the role of the shark. "It's about teh sherrif and the people, chasing the ghost. That's it... The lead role isn't Spawffn, the lead role is a cop, like Sherriff Brody from Jaws."
MacFarlane went on to insist that the film wouldn't be a superhero movie at all, but instead a "supernatural thriller, like a lot of good creep movies," with Spawn himself as the only supernatural element. So I guess Spawn's traditional backstory, where he's an ex-CIA operative recruited by the literal devil to be a Galactus-style hell herald on earth, isn't going to make the cut this time around.
When the news came out that MacFarlane was rebooting Spawn, one assumed that Spawn would, y'know, talk in it. And while MacFarlane has downplayed the character's role in his own film in the past, it's still quite another thing to proclaim that his most famous character won't have single speaking line.
The film currently has no release date, although MacFarlane confirmed that they have moved into the casting stage of the film (guessing the Spawn audition will just involve a lot of menacing glares?), which he is set to write, produce, and direct.
www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/01/in-todd-macfarlanes-upcoming-spawn-movie-the-eponymous-hell-warrior-wont-speak/
Todd McFarlane Is Going To Cameo In His 'Spawn' Movie
Todd McFarlane, who will write and direct Spawn for Blumhouse, says he'll make a Stan Lee-esque cameo in the 2019 horror thriller.
Speaking at Ace Comic Con in Phoenix, Arizona alongside Marvel Comics visionary Stan Lee, McFarlane referenced Lee's inclusion in almost every big screen Marvel adaptation.
"How many institutions do you ever have a chance to form? I created an institution, the Stan Lee cameo," the 95-year-old comic creator said. "I'm very proud of it."
"Wow, you know what? I'm about to get ready to shoot a Spawn movie, I'm gonna put myself in it," McFarlane said.
"That's all I need, more competition," Lee quipped.
"I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna cameo," McFarlane said. "Then we're gonna be up against each other when it's award time for Best Cameo."
McFarlane said in October he hopes to have Lee appear in Spawn.
"I got a good buddy named Stan Lee, and he keeps going, 'When are we going to shoot that cameo, Todd?'" McFarlane told ComicBook.com. "So hopefully, I'll get Stan to maybe come in there and do something."
McFarlane wants to give the comic book icon a "gnarly" appearance.
"I want to do a dark anti-cameo, unfriendly Stan Lee, and he's like, 'Todd, I'm in!' I've explained what I want to do, and he's like, 'Oh, cool,'" McFarlane said.
"'So, I'm not gonna be, like, the happy-go-lucky?' I go, 'No, you're gonna be ugly. You're gonna be this Schlitz-drinking, wife beater, three-day-old shave, snarly dude,'" McFarlane said. "And he's like, 'I love it!' So, we'll see if we can pull it off."
"[Alfred] Hitchcock used to be in his creepy movies, and then I remember M. Night Shyamalan went into his, and I go, 'Come on! If you can't have fun being in yours, then what the heck, right?'" McFarlane said of his plan to include cameos other than Lee.
The Spawn creator aims to make the small-budget horror into a franchise.
Blumhouse, the production studio behind low-budget but big box office earners Paranormal Activity, The Visit and Get Out, produces. McFarlane writes and directs for a planned 2019 release.
Speaking at Ace Comic Con in Phoenix, Arizona alongside Marvel Comics visionary Stan Lee, McFarlane referenced Lee's inclusion in almost every big screen Marvel adaptation.
"How many institutions do you ever have a chance to form? I created an institution, the Stan Lee cameo," the 95-year-old comic creator said. "I'm very proud of it."
"Wow, you know what? I'm about to get ready to shoot a Spawn movie, I'm gonna put myself in it," McFarlane said.
"That's all I need, more competition," Lee quipped.
"I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna cameo," McFarlane said. "Then we're gonna be up against each other when it's award time for Best Cameo."
McFarlane said in October he hopes to have Lee appear in Spawn.
"I got a good buddy named Stan Lee, and he keeps going, 'When are we going to shoot that cameo, Todd?'" McFarlane told ComicBook.com. "So hopefully, I'll get Stan to maybe come in there and do something."
McFarlane wants to give the comic book icon a "gnarly" appearance.
"I want to do a dark anti-cameo, unfriendly Stan Lee, and he's like, 'Todd, I'm in!' I've explained what I want to do, and he's like, 'Oh, cool,'" McFarlane said.
"'So, I'm not gonna be, like, the happy-go-lucky?' I go, 'No, you're gonna be ugly. You're gonna be this Schlitz-drinking, wife beater, three-day-old shave, snarly dude,'" McFarlane said. "And he's like, 'I love it!' So, we'll see if we can pull it off."
"[Alfred] Hitchcock used to be in his creepy movies, and then I remember M. Night Shyamalan went into his, and I go, 'Come on! If you can't have fun being in yours, then what the heck, right?'" McFarlane said of his plan to include cameos other than Lee.
The Spawn creator aims to make the small-budget horror into a franchise.
Blumhouse, the production studio behind low-budget but big box office earners Paranormal Activity, The Visit and Get Out, produces. McFarlane writes and directs for a planned 2019 release.
comicbook.com/movies/2018/01/14/spawn-reboot-movie-todd-mcfarlane-will-cameo/
Some of my friends got the 'Faust' comic books when they first came out and they were a lot cheaper back then and the comic books and I never got them but I read quite a few of them which is why I was expecting the movie to go further than it did. The budget stopped it from using a lot of the monsters though and there were multiple rewrites of the script to cut down on blood, gore and nudity 'cause the studio was worried it wouldn't be able to release the film without getting an X rating.
