What’s going on with Blumhouse’s Spawn movie, you may be wondering? It’s been a pattern with this project that small bits of news are followed by long periods of radio silence, so it’s no surprise that it’s been almost a year since we’ve gotten an update. Let’s recap.
Back in October of last year, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane announced that Blumhouse was still on board the Spawn ship and that Scott Silver (Joker), Malcolm Spellman (Falcon and the Winter Soldier) and Matthew Mixon had been hired the write the script. Additionally, at the time, Jamie Foxx was still attached to star as the title character.
It’s been a long hard road out of development hell with his brand new Spawn feature, which Todd McFarlane had originally planned to direct. It seems he’s stepped aside from those desires, however, with a new director not yet attached to the film. As of last October, the Blumhouse project was seeking a studio partner, and that’s the last we heard back then.
This week, Jason Blum provides a bit of an update in a new chat with ComicBook.com. He notes that the film is very much still in development, with a 2025 target in mind.
“I would say you have a lot to hope for because it’s in very very active development,” Blum told ComicBook.com this week. “What needs to happen is that my fellow friends the writers and the studios need to figure out their differences and get back to writing, but we’ve got a great group of folks putting it together, and my hope is that that movie — my prediction is maybe we’ll actually see a Spawn movie in 2025. No promises, but that’s my prediction.”
Blum is of course referring to the ongoing WGA Strike, which has seen writers put the pencils down while they continue to fight for fair wages from the studios and streamers.
As for Jamie Foxx’s involvement, that remains up in the air at this time. Stay tuned for more.
Spawn first appeared in Spawn #1 back in May 1992. The character first came to the screen with a 1997 movie from New Line starring Michael Jai White, and he got the animated series treatment courtesy of HBO in the late 1990s. Keith David voiced Spawn in the series.
In the comics, Spawn is a former black-ops agent who makes a deal with a demon after being betrayed and killed. The demon allows him to return to Earth, but when he returns, five years have passed, his wife has moved on, and he roams Earth as a disfigured spawn of hell.
Jamie Foxx in ‘Day Shift’
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