Spawn Movie Will Be A Dark R-Rated Affair Says Todd McFarlane

If you are a fan of R-rated comic book adaptations, then you should know Todd McFarlance is right there with you. While movies like Blade may have first popularized the darker superhero films, Deadpool and Logan have reinvigorated fans and their desire for grittier tales. The higher rating gives creators more wiggle room with films, allowing them to be adhere better to bloody source material. And, now, McFarlane wants everyone to know his live-action Spawn feature will push superhero films to an even darker sphere.

This weekend, McFarlane appeared at Emerald City Comic Con with Stan Lee where the duo participated in a panel. It was there a fan asked the former how things were going with his Spawn movie. The creator stressed he would have a more substantial update about the project at San Diego Comic Con in the summer, but McFarlance couldn’t help but talk about his script’s “dark R” potential.

“Listen, I’m going to paint it for you. The movie is going to be a dark R,” McFarlane said. “If here’s PG-13 and here’s Deadpool and here’s Logan, we’re going to be here. It’s going to be dark. It’s going to be nasty.”

“I’ve already talked to Stan, and he’s going for it,” the creator continued.

Late last year, McFarlane spoke to ComicBook.com about the developing live-action adaptation. The writer stressed the project was in its make-or-break stages back in December, saying, “I’ve been living with the idea for so long that I wanted to direct it, but I knew that if I gave it to Hollywood and they spent a lot of money on it then just from a practical point of view, it wouldn’t be fair for me to then say ‘I want to direct.”

“It’s not good business to spend $80 million on movie and then give it to somebody who’s not known for directing movies — but if you can make a movie for $10 million, they’ll get a lot of less experienced directors to do those movies. So I knew I needed to keep the story and the budget both tight so that when I go to Hollywood and I say ‘I have to direct it, that’s not even a negotiation, so if you can’t accept that, then the conversation is over quickly,’ then once they understand the scope and size and budget of it, they’re like ‘Oh, okay. It’s not like Todd’s coming in here asking for $100 million and then saying let me direct my first movie. He’s saying ‘Give me $10 million to make a little horror movie and let’s see if we can scare some people. We’ve done that tons of times.’”

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With his most recent update, it looks like progress is continuing to spin with the Spawn feature. For now, fans will have to wait and see what McFarlane has to say about the violent adaptation come SDCC.

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