{"id":716867,"date":"2026-07-29T07:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716867\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:33:13","slug":"a-spawn-animated-film-is-mostly-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/716867\/","title":{"rendered":"A “Spawn” Animated Film Is Mostly Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>HBO<\/p>\n

\u201cSpawn\u201d comic creator Todd McFarlane appeared at San Diego Comic-Con late last week where he offered some updates on how two screen adaptations of his celebrated comics are coming along.<\/p>\n

First up, he says a long-delayed \u201cSpawn\u201d animated movie is actually mostly done and is now waiting for someone to come along, pick it up and finish it.<\/p>\n

He confirmed to ComicBook.com<\/a> that actors Keith David (Spawn) and Mark Hamill (Detective Twitch) have already completed recording their voice work for the movie. As a result, it wouldn\u2019t take that much to complete and release:<\/p>\n

As a result, it wouldn\u2019t take that much to complete and release:<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever said, we developed, we were in the process of developing the return of this Spawn animation a while back. And then we, I got in a fight at the very end with the production and the lawyer, so I just bought it all back.<\/p>\n

So I actually have a 90-minute animated show that\u2019s all been drawn, minus the cells. All the voices have been done. Everything, like, we\u2019re ready. All we need is a little bit of Foley, which is sound effects and stuff, and then hand it to a studio to actually draw, right? <\/p>\n

We\u2019re like, it\u2019s just been sitting in a box waiting to go. I have just been sitting on that going, no, I think I need to get like the movie out, and then boom, once the [live-action] movie comes out, if there\u2019s any success, then come out with that, but it\u2019s sitting there. So anybody that wants to do animation, the first thing I\u2019m going to do is say, hey, I\u2019ve got this ready to tee up.\u201d<\/p>\n

McFarlane is famous for asserting strong creative control over the franchise which is why it has struggled to yield any further screen adaptations following the poor reception to the 1997 live-action film, and the far better received HBO adult animated series around the same time.<\/p>\n

McFarlane also briefly spoke with Revenge Of<\/a> about the status of a new live-action adaptation, saying he keeps rejecting new drafts of scripts and what he needs is to sit down with someone who will work with him:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need writers who will work with me. I am tired of giving my ideas away, sitting back waiting, and then they just hand it [over], and I read the script, and within 10 pages I go, \u2018No, it\u2019s off base.\u2019 I need somebody that will work with me every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

He goes on to cite the success of films like \u201cObsession\u201d and \u201cBackrooms\u201d to show how the project could be done quite cost-effectively.<\/p>\n