Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane has long been talking about a new live-action “Spawn” film, but over the years there has been little progress it would seem.
Last year he also revealed two different “Spawn” animated series were in the works and this week he suggeests one of those is close to happening very soon.
Appearing on Talking Shop for ComicBookMovie.com, McFarlane says he has “ninety minutes of a show ready, teed up, ready to go” but there’s still plenty of work to be done:
“Actually years ago we started a second go-round at it, and I still have all of that work. And it includes all the voice recordings and everything. So I’ve got about ninety minutes of a show ready, teed up, ready to go; the only thing I need to do is the cell animation, everything else has been designed. Obviously we need to put some music and sound effects or something – but yeah, I’ve been sitting on a 90-minute version of it for a long time. I’ve just been waiting to launch the movie to say ‘Hey, let’s tumble this all out at the appropriate time.’ But yeah, we’ll get animation done.”
While “Spawn” was turned into a poorly received live-action film in 1997, McFarlane debuted a dark adult animated series version for HBO in 1999. Running for three seasons of six episodes each, the critically acclaimed work won an Emmy for Outstanding Animation Program.
