This past week, while appearing on ComicBook.com's Talking Shop, McFarlane mentioned how close he also was to delivering some sort of Spawn-centric animated series.
"Actually years ago we started a second go-round at [Spawn animation]," he explained, "and I still have all of that work. And it includes all the voice recordings and everything. So I've got about ninety minutes of a show ready, teed up, ready to go; the only thing I need to do is the cell animation, everything else has been designed."
"Obviously we need to put some music and sound effects or something - but yeah, I've been sitting on a 90-minute version of it for a long time. I've just been waiting to launch the movie to say 'Hey, let's tumble this all out at the appropriate time.' But yeah, we'll get animation done."To break it down, McFarlane's Spawn animated project is mostly done except for the animation. And it might roll out around the same time the reboot movie arrives, after the film maybe receives funding from the aforementioned sidelines money.
Speaking to ComicBook.com last July, McFarlane first explained the stalling of the movie. "The money's sitting on the sidelines ready to go. I just need to get everyone that wants to put in money to shake their heads to the same script. As you can imagine, everyone has a slightly different version of it in their head. You just go and trying to appease a handful of people while not giving in to what it is that I'm trying to do myself. Because if I have to change it too much, I'll just walk away from it all."
The film has apparently cast Oscar winner Jamie Foxx as Al Simmons, the titular human-turned-Hellspawn, opposite Jeremy Renner as Detective Twitch Williams, who will help in the fight against evil.
Spawn recently arrived in Mortal Kombat 11, with McFarlane, as part of his collaboration, making it clear that he did not want NetherRealm Studios to hold back.
To date, McFarlane's Kickstarter campaign for an updated version of the original SPAWN action figure from 1995 has earned over $2.3 million (from only a $100,000 goal). Check out IGN's interview with McFarlane from last week about remastering the beloved '90s action figure... Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.
