In the least-expected news of the day (and that includes ABC cancelling Roseanne), Oscar winner Jamie Foxx will be apparently be wearing a big-ass cape and fighting bad guys with demonic powers in series creator Todd McFarlane’s long-gestating Spawn reboot. This announcement also comes with the news that Blumhouse, the modern-day heirs to Roger Corman’s cheap-and-quick empire, would be financing and producing the film itself. McFarlane will be directing, and presumably a decent amount of the film’s budget would be going towards securing Foxx in the role.
McFarlane, as highlighted by Birth Movies Death, has suggested that Spawn’s screen time would be limited, as he would be a tertiary presence, presumably stalking the criminals that the film will be centering around, and it makes sense, given that we doubt Foxx would be willing to put up with the same kind of suit that Michael Jai White had to wear in the 1997 film, which remains one of the oddest superhero pictures ever released by a major studio (we will never be able tog get the image of evil Martin Sheen from that film out of our brains, and, god willing, we’ll never have to).
We imagine it’ll be a little darker in substance rather than tone, given that the previous film was DARK in only the way a ’90s superhero could be, and we hope that Pogs — the colorful, collectable stuff that dreams are made of — make a return to accompany their patron saint. We also hope that since capes are coming back in style that the hamburger-faced hero’s will be as long and as blood-red as modern CGI can allow.
There’s no word on when the film will ultimately release, but we’ll keep you posted on any and all Spawn developments.
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