As you likely know, and as I tell you just about every week, our favorite comics radio show, Where Monsters Dwell, comes to us from the great northeast, specifically Fredericton (they pronounce it "Frederton"), New Brunswick, Canada. As you may [...]
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Spawn creator, Todd McFarlane has been talking (seemingly forever) about a live-action sequel or reboot of the 1997 Spawn film, which he intends to write, produce and direct himself. About a year ago McFarlane said, “I’m 80% through the script, [...]
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Back in November of last year, Todd McFarlane said that he still intended to write, produce and direct a new live-action Spawn feature film, along with a newanimated series. At Toy Fair 2010, McFarlane updated that he had made some [...]
Read moreIn 1992, Todd McFarlane helped form Image Comics, pulling the occult anti-hero character Spawn from his high school portfolio and updating him for the 1990s. Now, the Spawn creator has revealed that his proposed animated and live-action projects based on [...]
Read moreThe debut issue of Image Comics' major crossover event Image United has sold out at the distribution level. The first issue of the six-part miniseries, written by Robert Kirkman (Invincible, Walking Dead, Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies) sold out immediately [...]
Read moreImage Comics founders Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld will team up to illustrate the finale of Spawn: Endgame. McFarlane will ink the Liefeld-pencilled Spawn: Endgame #196. McFarlane recently returned to illustrate the title he created in 1992. He has recently been [...]
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Original Spawn Al Simmons is to return as the antagonist in the upcoming special Image United. Introduced by Todd McFarlane in 1992, ex-CIA agent Simmons took up the mantle of the hellspawn after being betrayed to his death by his former [...]
Read more"Todd McFarlane's Spawn" animated series was one of the most faithful adaptations of a comic book to ever hit the screen. Taking full advantage of the HBO's restriction-free environment, the 18-episode series managed to offer the same violence, sex and [...]
Read moreDuring a recent chat with the ever-busy creator, McFarlane shared a bit more insight into his plans for rebooting "Spawn" in Hollywood, and why we could be looking at a very different Hellspawn if/when the character returns to the big [...]
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There has been a lot going on in Todd McFarlane's world lately, about his new Spawn film, a new Spawn animated series and about Dakota Fanning being cast as Dorothy in his incarnation of 'The Wizard of Oz' and a [...]
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"Spawn" creator Todd McFarlane blamed legal issues for his popular hero's delay in returning to animation, but those unspecified hurdles may be out of the way now as the Image Comics co-founder and toy company chief looks forward to next [...]
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Dakota Fanning is to star in the sequel to The Wizard Of Oz. According to Teen Hollywood, the 15-year-old actress is speculated to land the lead role in the follow-up to the classic 1939 film. Producer Basil Iwanyk said: "It will be set [...]
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