Spawn
Spawn Sequel Talk
McFarlane is currently in the midst of writing the script for the next film. "In a perfect world, I'd like to put it out next year", says McFarlane. "I'm in the middle of writing it now. It depends how many times I go over the script. I might be quite pleased with it and get some notes from people I trust, but my guess is I'm probably gonna grind this thing over three or four or five times. I'd love to do production in the first half of the year and that means I could get it out in time Halloween of next year. It shouldn't be a long shoot. It's not an overly complicated story. It's fairly contained. Why? I don't have a big budget. I've got to keep the story consistent with the budget. I think we could shoot this thing in two months."
When questioned about what we can expect from the sequel, McFarlane gave
some encouraging words on the Spawn character. "Spawn
has always been something in my mind that, even though I started it as a
superhero comic book, it was always like way more than that. There was always
a lot more spiritual and again with some of the religious overtones in there
and the ghostly aspects, and I like dark and gritty horror stuff too. To
me it's like, there's plenty of superhero stuff. No one's going to give
me a $70 million budget to do Spider-Man anyway, so forget it. Don't even
go there. So how can I get it into a realm that makes sense to me, especially
as I get older. The answer is to ground it, as weird as it is, eliminate
the fantastic as much as possible, which may seem like an odd thing. And
when I say that, it means that Spawn becomes the only fantastic
element in the story."
He adds, "This is where people sometimes misinterpret what I say, 'cause I've talked about the movie before, where's they're like, "There's not gonna be any Violent, not gonna be any Clown in it?" No, there's not. But the movies I grew up with when I was a kid, there was Frankenstein and that was it. There was King Kong and that was it. There wasn't Doctor Doom, there wasn't Magneto, there wasn't sidekicks, there wasn't any of that. There were humans, that were the villagers trying to kill Frankenstein, and then there was the mad scientist -- who was a human -- and his crazy sidekick Igor, but he was human too. The only thing that was fantastic was the monstrosity in the middle. Jaws scared the s--- out of me. It's sort of a fantastic idea of a giant man-eating shark, but everything else was grounded in that movie. It wasn't like, "Okay, now we're gonna bring in the special task force of the government that has these special bazookas." There wasn't any of that."
McFarlane says that's "the only way I'm gonna get Spawn made at
a reasonable price and still make it interesting. The brand name's been
there, I believe that the character's been around long enough now that the
majority of the fans are old anyways. And I'm saying old in that they can
get into an r-rated movie, if need be, without anybody holding their hand".
Stay tuned for updates.
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