Spawn reboot: Todd McFarlane reveals there are creative differences

Todd McFarlane has explained that there are currently creative differences regarding the Spawn reboot, which have played a factor in its long development cycle.

There has been quite a lot of radio silence regarding Todd McFarlane’s Spawn reboot.

About a month ago, the co-founder of Image Comics and CEO of McFarlane Toys presented an update on the film, suggesting that not everyone involved in the upcoming project shared his creative vision.

At present, however, according to comicbook.com, he has indeed come to a bit of a crossroads. Speaking at San Diego Comic-Con, he confirmed that there are some creative differences regarding the direction of the project. He commented:

"“Lemme see if I can just go real quick: Spawn movie, right? When are you going to make a Spawn movie… My answer is ‘Yesterday, yesterday, yesterday.’ …. I need $20 million to make this movie, I don’t have all of it. I have to ask people for money, and once you ask people for money, they get to have a say in it… it’s a little bit of an uphill battle, because again, I just want to do this little dark ‘R’ movie, and they like those PG-13 success movies.”"

While this does confirm his earlier suggestion of creative differences, it contrasts with another one of his comments. Though there had been challenges lying ahead, it seemed to be just a setback. However, things may not to be as hunky-dory behind the scenes, especially in terms of the collaboration with Blumhouse Productions.

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McFarlane even went so far as to suggest doing crowd-funding through Kickstarter in order to fund the project. As he stated, $20 million is the budget he needs to make this Spawn reboot a reality which is, mind you, double the budget he stated back in 2017.

Several months back, the film, that has Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Renner attached to star, was set to enter principal photography this summer.

Tensions over budgetary concerns with Jason Blum and the producers at Blumhouse appear to be rising. McFarlane promised fans the film will move along when he beats “the system” and that, at least for the time being, he will “play nice” but his patience is wearing thin.

While Spawn continues to be the one property that is challenging in the hands of the creative team that brought moviegoers Halloween, The Purge and It, hopefully the road from roll camera to the big screen is a more satisfying one.

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