Todd McFarlane has finished the Spawn script and it sounds very different

Let’s be honest, if there’s a movie that needs remade, it’s Spawn.

Todd McFarlane’s character should have been one of comic books’ most filmable characters but instead it became a total disaster.

We’ve waited for years for Spawn’s second stab at the big screen and now creator McFarlane has been telling just how he sees it happening pretty soon although he says it won’t be like the movies we’re seeing all over the cinemas at the minute but rather something very different indeed: “I’d put it more into horror/suspense/supernatural genre,” McFarlane told ComicBook. “If you take the movie The Departed meets Paranormal Activity, something like that,” he says to Comicbook.

“In the background, there’s this thing moving around, this boogeyman. That boogeyman just happens to be something that you and I, intellectually, know is Spawn,” he explained. “Will he look like he did in the first movie? No. Will he have a supervillain he fights? No. He’s going to be the spectre, the ghost.”

He compares his vision for the movie more like a Japanese horror movie in the vein of The Ring or the Grudge: “I think they all work because there’s only one thing in the movie that’s not normal. There’s not five things, there’s one thing that’s the boogeyman. So that’ll be Spawn.

“He’s this thing that just whooshes in, this ghost that moves and will f*** you up if you’re in the wrong place in the wrong time, and the rest of the movie will look real, and be this real drama. He’s just this ghost, this thing behind it.

“I can make this version of the movie on a budget without crazy special effects. I want to keep it small, keep it tight, so they’ll let me direct it!”

We certainly think spawn would work on this type of scale, what about you? He’s kidding about directing though, right? Right? Hello?