Todd McFarlane Talks About New "Spawn" Flick

"Spawn" creator Todd McFarlane has been speaking about a film reboot based on the acclaimed property for years.  Chatting with The Gate via Heat Vision during the Fan Expo Canada this past weekend, he offered a long explanation as to why it's taking so long and now it seems things are seemingly on track:

"The thing that keeps slowing it down is that the negotiation I’ve done is I write, produce, direct, but I’ve got to push a lot of my other endeavors off to the side so I can just get tunnel vision on it. Everybody at my company is now going, ‘We’ve got to find Todd the time to finish all this.' I think it's a quick shoot. It's not going to be a giant budget with a lot of special effects; it's going to be more of a horror movie and a thriller movie, not a superhero one. I've got so many people phoning now that I’ve got to get it done. I’ve made some promises to people this year. We've had some big names … come into the office and go, 'We want to be in it'. Sometimes they give me their pitch, I give them my pitch, I go, 'We can get in it, this is how it goes,' and so those types of actors -- Academy Award guys -- they’re going, 'As soon as that scripts done, we’re going.' So once we get this thing done, we’ll get it off the ground with some big names. [The producers] want me to deliver the script by the end of the year, which would basically mean we'd be shooting next year. So, that's the goal right now."

The original Spawn movie was released in 1997 and disappointed fans of the comic book by trying too hard to be a superhero movie instead of a horror film featuring a superhero character.

John Leguizamo did give a great performance amid the chaos though.