Todd MacFarlane has long been in the business spawn A movie that could escape development hell as a streaming series. Since 2017, the comic creator has been developing the R-rated reboot as a low-budget horror movie Cleansing And the Halloween Producer Jason Blum and Blumhouse Productions. MacFarlane announced that year at San Diego Comic-Con that the new Spawn would mark his directorial debut, which has since starred Jamie Foxx as Hellspoon and Jeremy Renner as Detective Twitch Williams. MacFarlane’s long-running pictorial comic book has long been adapted into New Line’s PG-13 live-action film and HBO adult animated series in the late 1990s.
sitting with Character BookMcFarlane of Jim Viscardi revealed at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 that he “had that conversation” about developing spawn as a streaming series rather than a movie.
“The answer is you probably think about it. What if one of the big networks came out and brought in a lot of money and said they wanted to turn it into a streaming movie?” MacFarlane said. “My only hesitation with this kind of deal at the moment is that there is no data that I can think of of someone being able to create [movie] Starting a franchise in the form of a flow [series]. “
He completed,[Franchises] You start in movie theaters, then you can make side movies, and then you can move on to a separate series about it.”
Last year, MacFarlane announced that he is shopping a spawn Universe and that his television division at McFarlane Films is developing a live show Sam and Twitch TV series as part of a First Sight deal with the studio that was succeeded by wiip East Town mare And the Dickinson. In 2019, he revealed two new species spawn An animated series – one for kids and one for adults – will follow the movie the Image Comics co-founder is confident could launch a multimedia franchise.
“But let’s start with, ‘We’re going to build a franchise in a big, meaningful way out of broadcasting,'” I don’t see any evidence of that. If anything, I’d argue, I see a little bit of the opposite, MacFarlane said. Two years ago, it was forgotten because there were hundreds of other series that came out. These great shows are in and out in a year or two.”
MacFarlane, who previously described the new movie as a dark, gritty supernatural thriller, said in 2020 that the box office success of Warner Bros. And DC’s R-Rated joker ignited investor interest in spawn Replay the movie.
Still, direct action spawn flow chain ‘depends’ [on] Show and what we’re talking about.”
The creator also weighed whether or not to advertise a live show spawn News at Comic-Con or postponed until New York Comic Con later this year, closer to the release of the new batman / spawn Comedy crossover just announced in San Diego.
“We had a great discussion about whether to make an announcement [at San Diego Comic-Con] …I thought it might be a little early, because I’m trying to make another ad, two totally big ads while we go to Hollywood for sale,” he explained. spawn He’ll be at the top a bit… There will be some things buzzing, and I thought, “[San Diego] It might just be a hair too early. ”
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