News about Todd McFarlane's movie adaptation reboot of "Spawn" has been really slow latety.
However, with Marvel and DC Comics' announcement of "Black Panther" and "Cyborg" talks about "Spawn" started to spark once more.
Fans were disappointed that the dark hero movie adaptation reboot of "Spawn" was not announced at San Diego Comic Con in 2014, they are sitll hoping that with the dawn of the new era for the movies, the highly anticipated reboot would finally push through.
During Toronto's The Gate fan expo, McFarlane candidly shared details about the film's development. The 54-year-old author explained that while dark superhero films' future are looking bright, he would want to stick to the dark and gritty horror-thiller side of the story.
"I think it's a quick shoot," he answered when asked about the planned "Spawn" movie reboot.
"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."
Furthermore Todd McFarlane told Comicbook that "Spawn" movie reboot is definitely going to be an "R" rated film.
Adding, "Not so much that I tell people... I don't want 'R' to do excessive violence or nudie people or any of that. It's just that some of the content, which is sort of street thug and police officers, you're getting into some dark and gritty 2 AM in the morning bad guy stuff. That conversation, it doesn't lend itself to being PG-13. Those types of people, those types of characters have a certain vernacular that they speak with, so you can't do it, right. So you have to dip into 'R' rated, just to be actually able to do characters in the proper fashion. Again, I don't know if anybody could do a mafia story and not make it 'R,' just because of the way people talk. And once you start using a couple curse words, it sort of crosses over into that in the film ratings anyway.
