For years now “Spawn” creator Todd McFarlane has been banging the drum about doing a reboot, one that would be executed on a modest budget but would adapt the comic character properly in a way more akin to the HBO adult animated series than the terrible live-action New Line film.
Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx and Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner became attached to the film back in 2018 with Foxx to play the titular chain and caped hellspawn. However in an interview with Shoryuken this week, McFarlane was discussing the character’s inclusion in some new “Mortal Kombat 11” DLC and let slip that Foxx may have exited the long-gestating film.
McFarlane says: “Last week I got some discouraging news, we had an academy award-winning guy who was going to do the movie with us, but he fell off. We had people willing to fund the movie as long as we had this guy attached but schedules were conflicting, and things had to change. That’s how close we are to getting this thing off the ground.”
The project is struggling to catch a break but McFarlane remains steadfast on a few things such as the film’s R-rating, that he direct it, and that he’s “less concerned about what happens in the movie as long as Spawn is ‘cool’ and ‘badass'”. For now it seems, “Spawn” won’t be emerging from hell anytime soon.
UPDATE: McFarlane has cleared up the speculation, saying Foxx is still attached and the Oscar-winning guy he was referring to was a writer.
