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Todd McFarlane: 2024 Is The "Make Or Break" Year For The Spawn Film

Spawn creator Todd McFarlane says that 2024 is the "make or break" year for the film, but he does have a plan B if things fall apart again.

The Spawn movie is hanging out in development hell and has been for coming up on nine years this year. The last we heard about it, it was Jason Blum basically pinky promising that the film would be coming out in 2025, a full decade after it was announced that a new movie was in the works. There have been a lot of ups and downs since then, but it sounds like even Spawn creator Todd McFarlane is beginning to accept that the lonely walk through development hell is getting a little ridiculous, and it's time to just make this stupid movie one way or another. McFarlane recently spoke to ComicBook.com and explained that 2024 would be the "make or break" year when it came to getting this movie off of the ground, but also revealed that he does have a plan B if all of that should fall through.

"2024 is gonna be my make or break anyways, right? Either I'm gonna give Hollywood the best chance to do it and, if not, I've got plenty of outside investors waiting," McFarlane explained. "So I'm trying to see if we can make the right deal within the norm of the Hollywood structure. If not, there have been plenty of examples, actually, a couple big ones last year, where people went outside the normal channels and succeeded. And people have done this before with independent movies: you make your movie, and you just find a distributor. That one, I could do in a heartbeat."

He continued, "Fingers crossed, I'm gonna give as much of an effort to those that live within the confines of it. Obviously, Jason Blum is one of the better ones at getting things done. They tell me I get to read the script this month, so the email's going out this week to remind them that they promised me that. Something's gotta happen, something's gonna happen, I just know myself. Something's gonna happen because if I can't figure it out inside, I'll figure it out outside. I just know myself. But, hopefully, we can figure out a deal that keeps all the parties that have been involved over the years involved."

Spawn And The Long Journey Through Development Hell

Methinks it's time for the Spawn movie to join the likes of projects where they do not exist until the final credits roll on the screening, a la Deadpool, Uncharted, or the Halo TV series. For those of you not keeping up, Spawn was launched in 1992 by Todd McFarlane and is probably one of the best examples of 90s comics that aren't drawn by Rob Liefeld. The comic got adapted into a pretty cheesy but not the worst thing in the world movie back in 1997, right before comic book movies started to become a thing again.

In 2015, McFarlane announced his intentions to do another Spawn movie; this time, it would be R-rated and a closer adaptation of the comic books. McFarlane said he would direct and write this movie, which means you could have technically called Spawn an auteur project. Blumhouse signed on to produce, and they also managed to bring on Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Renner to star. It was supposed to get off the ground in 2019 but never did, and Joker doing numbers at the box office may have renewed interest. In April 2021, Broken City writer Brian Tucker was brought on to work on the screenplay, but all went quiet on the western front for a while. Then, things changed again in October 2022 when it was announced that Scott Silver, Malcolm Spellman, and Matthew Mixom were brought on to do the script. If a director is attached, it hasn't been announced, or the ink isn't dry.

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