Todd McFarlane Confirms Academy Award Winning Actors Interested In Spawn Movie

07/22/2017 12:30 pm EDT

Spawn made a big splash at San Diego Comic-Con this year when Todd McFarlane announced that the character is coming back to the big screen, and evidently, it includes some big name talent.

ComicBook.com's Jim Viscardi had the chance to chat with Todd about the Spawn reboot, including the yet unfinalized cast.

When asked if the rumored Academy Award winning talent was still onboard, McFarlane said "Yeah a couple approached me. Those are still on the table, and I just recently signed with CAA, the largest and biggest talent agency in Hollywood, so they've got lots of talent that they will sort of start pushing and funneling towards it if they think that the roles are there."

Spawn will be a horror focused film that centers on two key roles, offering the most material for a potential actor.

"There's two big roles in the script. There's obviously sort of Spawn himself, although in a weird way it's not the biggest role, and then there's the cop. The cop is this character Twitch who's been there since issue #1. Twitch is the role in this one, and I sort of refer to him as my sheriff Brody, who is the sheriff in the Jaws movie. Although it was called Jaws, Jaws didn't really talk a lot in his movie, right? He just kind of showed up at the opportune time to make the movie worthwhile."

It might not seem it, but Jaws and Spawn have a great deal in common, at least from a point of view standpoint.

"It was sheriff Brody, the humans talking, chasing the fantastical thing that sort of made the movie, and to me, there's that element," said McFarlane. "Everything else is normal in this story other than (gesture) the shadow moves, and at times even when it moves, the cop just sort of thinks he's losing his mind so he doesn't even trust that the shadow's moving. If you're a bad guy, then this thing is going to come and it's going to get you."

Twitch will also be showing up in the Sam and Twitch project in development which also has some A list talent attached.

"We're developing Sam and Twitch over at BBC America that Kevin Smith is attached to. Hopefully, they'll sign off on that and he's going to write and direct all that."

Spawn will be coming from Blumhouse, makers of The Purge, Paranormal Activity, and The Belko Experiment. The budget will be in the $10 million range, and no release date has been announced.

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