At the Image Expo, Image Comics President and Spawn
creator Todd McFarlane offered an update on the status of the new Spawn film,
and tv animated series.
While talking to Comic Book, McFarlane revealed that the
one exerting the biggest pressure for him to finally finish the script for the
next Spawn feature film is his wife.
"Because she spent money on this room that has no
Internet. She knows that I’m a cheap guy and that since she spent the money, I
better go into it and do the work [laughs]. I’ve got a case of ADD too, and the
last time I tried to write the film script I was in a room for three days and
then I started thinking, ‘wouldn’t it be cool if I made toy building blocks
that looked realistic like The Walking Dead stuff that just came out,’ so
within three days I was already trying to create something else. She’s
just trying to lock me in a bubble saying ‘Stop thinking about anything else
and get the script done.’
And the stupid piece
of all of this is that the entire movie is already put out on index cards. The
scenes are all in order, short of some dialogue that needs to get in, more than
a quarter of it is done. My guess is if I go in that room and shut the world
out I can get it done in seven to ten days. This how stupid it is [laughs].
I’ve been putting these seven to ten days off for years now because I’ve been
doing other things. My wife is way more pragmatic than I am. She says, ‘you
know, they’re still phoning for it. They’re still asking for it but if you keep
doing this bulls**t someday they’re just going to stop asking.’ People are
going to superhero movies, and Hollywood wants it and the opportunity is still
there, but I just have to get it done.
Every twenty pages I
write of a comic book could have been twenty pages of the film script. Every
five issues I write could have been a film script. That’s what I’m hoping for
in working with Paul Jenkins on Spawn is that I can just let him take it and go
off in my corner for the next couple of months."
In regards to the announced animated series, McFarlane says that writer Grant Morrison is out
because of his schedule, and things with also writer Brian Wood also didn't
work out.
"I talked to Grant. Somebody wrote that he’d be
writing, but I was just talking with him. He was trying to see if he could make
it work in his schedule but something came up in Hollywood that filled his gap.
He actually had some pretty specific ideas about what he wanted to do on Spawn
that I thought was really cool, but he was just busy with other stuff.
Brian came along and
it was just a little bit of oil and vinegar. I'm old enough now, arguably wise
enough now, to know the inevitable so I knew it wasn’t going to be long-term.
At that point it actually all worked out because all of a sudden Paul Jenkins
had finished some of his commitments and was open. And it turned out Paul knew
[incoming series artist] Jonboy Meyers."
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