MTV Movie Blogs has the scoop on the long-gestating 'Spawn' sequel, with a one-on-one interview with Todd McFarlane. Here are some highlights:
McFarlane: Yeah, I've already begun the screenplay. It was in my head for a long time. We had New Line and then it went over to Sony. Then I had a couple of meetings with other people and we got pretty close. But I could see they just weren't quite on the same page as what I wanted to do, so I just said, "Nah, that's OK." The story I have hasn't changed much in the last decade creepy R-rated spook movie [the first flick was rated PG-13] and so instead of trying to convince them why, [I said,] "I'll just do it on my own."
McFarlane: I'd call it a "Spawn" reboot. To me, if you've never seen "Spawn" if you don't even know what Spawn is this movie will still be entertaining in and of itself. So you just go, "Wow, it's a messed-up specter movie." But if you happen to know what "Spawn" is then you are probably going to get some of the wink-wink stuff.
MTV: Obviously you have the means to get this financed on your own. Are you looking at "Spawn 2" as a wide release?
McFarlane: Oh yeah, absolutely. This would be my "Passion of the Anti-Christ," so I'm going to write, produce and direct this thing.
MTV: "Passion of the Anti-Christ." I like it.
McFarlane: Well you know, nobody wanted to give [Mel Gibson] the money, so he went out and did it. [So] it's like, "Fine, I've got an idea, I want to do it and nobody wants to fund it. Well, don't worry. Stop hurting yourself, guys. I'll go and do it myself, but I don't want to f---ing hear you bitching when I'm sitting there and I got the money. And you better hope this thing doesn't work as well as I think it's going to work, because these are the moments where you don't like neurotic artists being independent of your system. So we'll just rock on, and if it doesn't work, so what? But I'm telling you, it's going to work, guys."
There's quite a bit more from McFarlane in this extensive interview
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