I think they will come out in droves and have a good time in Calgary. I live in Phoenix, I think the Phoenix people will come out in droves because they did the first time we did Spawn. “Let me tell you right now, if I possibly can, I’m putting it into the contract,” McFarlane says. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The reboot has been in the works in one form or another for years. There was a 1997 live-action film with Michael Jae White, which grossed more than $100 million, and an Emmy-winning animated series that ran on HBO from 1997 to 1999. The 1992 comic book debut, which came out on McFarlane’s Image Comics, sold more than 1.7 million copies and the Spawn series holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running, creator-owned, superhero comic book title. Jamie Foxx has long been attached to play the lead role, a superhero/antihero that McFarlane first created at the age of 16 in his parents’ basement near Crowchild and 24th Avenue N.W. A-list writers Scott Silver, who co-wrote the 2019 hit Joker, and Malcolm Spellman, who created the Disney+ superhero series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, are currently working on the screenplay. Please try again Article contentįast-forward six years and McFarlane says the film is back on track. The next issue of Calgary Herald Headline News will soon be in your inbox.

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