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The mega success of ‘Black Panther’ without a doubt showed Hollywood once again that diversity always wins, especially in the world of comic/action films.
With this, it looks like another African American superhero will get his time in the spotlight as a new ‘Spawn‘ reboot film is in the works with Jamie Foxx taking the lead according to Deadline.
Jamie Foxx is set to star in Spawn, the Blumhouse film that marks the directorial debut of Todd McFarlane from his scripted adaptation of his comic book creation. Foxx will play the character who started out in the comics as Al Simmons, a member of a CIA black ops team who is betrayed twice. After being set up by his cohorts to be murdered with his corpse set aflame, Newman is double crossed in Hell. He is convinced to become a Hellspawn warrior in exchange for being able to be reunited with his wife. But Spawn finds himself stuck in a demonic creature shell, and that his wife moved on and married his best friend. So this is one pissed-off antihero who attends to dispatching the scum of the city in good and evil battles that encompass Earth, Heaven and Hell.
The comic was huge in the 1990s and was previously turned into an animated film and a live-action pic with Michael Jai White playing the character. McFarlane has long gotten overtures on a new live-action film that could launch a franchise, but he always had creative issues that led him to his own gritty low-budget version at Blumhouse. He expects the budget to be between $10 million-$12 million for a dark R-rated realization of his vision that will stack up favorably from both a creative and financial standpoint.
He doesn’t intend to tell Spawn‘s origin story and he expects his anti-hero to be a man of few words.
In case you weren’t aware of the original 1997 film which starred Michael Jai White as Spawn, get into that trailer below.
