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 serious headway with the Spawn 2 script:

“I’m 80% through the script, I did my due diligence, went around Hollywood,…I listened to the pitch from all the big studios, but I just went, ‘nah, I need to make this small and tight and contained.'”

“And if we keep the budget small, they’ll allow me to do all of that. [But] if you blow up the budget…and I understand that. I wouldn’t hire me, either. But then I have to give it away.”

McFarlane said he is not willing to give up control on this project.

“At this point in my life, I’d rather keep it smaller and maybe get fewer people to come see it, but actually just sort of extract out of my brain what I’ve been living with for the past 10 years.”

If he can’t come to terms with a studio, he is seriously considering taking a note out of the Mark Millar playbook, ala Kick-Ass.

McFarlane said,

“Another option is me just financing it myself, That way I can just … I own all of it.”

McFarlane said back in November,

“for years, I’ve been leaning toward keeping it small and tight. And to do something with a reasonable budget where, oh by the way, they’ll let you be involved.”

So, it looks like he’s really trying to stick to his guns.

[Source] newsarama