Todd McFarlane Teases Big ‘Spawn’ Movie News Tomorrow, October 4th

Todd McFarlane has been trying to get a new Spawn movie off the ground for years now, most recently promising big news for October 2022. And, well, it’s now October 2022…

As promised, McFarlane took to Twitter today to announce that “huge” Spawn movie news will be breaking tomorrow, October 4, tweeting out a crude MS Paint drawing to go along with the tease. We have no idea what exactly this huge news will be, but with New York Comic-Con right around the corner, it’s only fitting that Spawn pops back up this week.

It’s been a long hard road out of development hell with his brand new Spawn feature, which most recently had Blumhouse attached. Todd McFarlane, the creator of Spawn, had originally planned to direct the movie from his own screenplay, with Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Renner at one point signing on to star. Brian Tucker (Broken City) recently came on board to work on the screenplay, you may recall, but that latest update came along well over a year ago.

Since then it’s been radio silence on all things Spawn, with the movie never quite managing to get off the ground. Perhaps something is finally happening here in late 2022?

Stay tuned for more on this developing story. And come on back here tomorrow…

“Spawn is centered on a black-ops agent who is betrayed and murdered and his soul sent to hell for all the innocents he killed. While there, he makes a deal with a demon who allows him to return to the earthly plane and his wife. However, five years have now passed, and his wife has moved on, while he is a disfigured and superpowered spawn of hell.”

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.