Spawn Arrives on 4K in Exclusive Trailer for Arrow Video’s New Restoration

Despite being almost universally panned upon its release and hardly making a splash at the box office nearly 30 years ago, a deep love for Spawn has endured. The live-action adaptation of Todd McFarlane’s Image Comics icon has held on tight to its fandom over the years, and that fandom is now being rewarded for its dedication with a restoration that many might not have expected. Thanks to Arrow Video, Spawn is coming to 4K for the first time, and ComicBook is proud to exclusively reveal the trailer for the restoration.

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The new trailer, which you can see below, offers a glimpse at what this fully restored edition of Spawn looks like. Arrow is releasing both the Limited Edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray versions of the film in the U.S. on October 7th. You can pre-order your copy here.

The Spawn 4K includes both the Director’s Cut and Theatrical Cut of the film, with the restoration coming straight from the original camera negatives. Whatever your thoughts on Spawn may be, this is undoubtedly the best the film has ever looked, so it’s already a big winner in the eyes of die-hard fans. Arrow has earned a ton of goodwill with genre lovers over the years and that has continued into a fall season filled with surprising restorations.

Additionally, the Spawn 4K comes packed with special features, many of which are brand new, though there are some archival features sprinkled in there. One of the major highlights of the new features is a full interview with star Michael Jai White, conducted specifically for this release.

You can check out the full list of the Spawn 4K special features below!

• Brand new audio commentary with comic book expert and podcast host Dave Baxter
• Audio commentary with Todd McFarlane, Mark A.Z. Dippé, Clint Goldman, and Steve Williams (1998)
• Hell’s Perfect Son, a brand new interview with actor Michael Jai White
• Spawn Support, a brand new interview with actors Melinda Clarke and D.B. Sweeney
• The Devil’s in the Details, a brand new interview with animatronic creature and special makeup effects artists Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero
• The Devil’s Music, a brand new interview with music supervisor Happy Walters
• Order Out of Chaos, a brand new interview with editor Michael Knue
• Todd McFarlane: Chapter & Verse, an archival featurette from 1998 in which Spawn creator Todd McFarlane reflects on how the film adaptation stacks up against his original comic book vision
• The Making of Spawn, archival behind-the-scenes featurette
• Preview: Todd McFarlane’s Spawn – The Animated Movie
• Theatrical trailer
• Scene-to-storyboard comparisons
• Original Todd McFarlane sketches
• Spawn concept and sketch gallery

Arrow’s restoration of Spawn storms onto 4K and Blu-ray on October 7th. Another beloved comic adaptation is getting the same treatment from Arrow a month later, with The Mask arriving on 4K in November. The company will close out the year with perhaps its most anticipated release in quite a while: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The entire live-action trilogy of TMNT films has been restored by Arrow and will be getting a physical 4K release in December.

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