Marvel and Warner Bros. have already delved into the dark superhero movie following its announcement of "Doctor Strange," "Black Panther," "Cyborg" and "Suicide Squad."
While news about it has been scarce, Todd McFarlane is still reportedly up to work on a "Spawn" movie reboot.
The development seemed to have taken a back, but according to the 54-year-old Spawn creator, a reboot to the 1997 movie adaptation to the hit dark superhero comic is still a work in progress.
At Toronto's The Gate , McFarlane revealed his plans for the upcoming reboot, pointing out that he's thinking of sticking to the dark and gritty side of the comic rather than making it a superhero movie.
"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."
In a separate interview with Comicbook, McFarlane said that "Spawn" movie reboot is going to be an "R" rated film, reamaining true to the classic comic books.
"It will be a definite R," he explained.
"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.
