Producer Jason Blum Says Upcoming 'SPAWN' Film Is "Edgy"

We’ve been getting teased left and right by Todd McFarlane in regards to the new ‘SPAWN’ reboot happening with the helps of Blumhouse and producer Jason Blum. We can guarantee that the new film will be a hard R rating and with that, Blum has come forward with a little bit of news regarding the film.

"I'm going to bring the Blumhouse edge. It's going to be edgy and original as compared to other superhero movies. It's gonna definitely feel like the Blumhouse version of a superhero movie," Blum told ScreenRant while at NYCC earlier this month.

McFarlane told our friends over at Comicbook.com, this year he thought the movie was somewhere between traditional horror fare and Prime Video's adult-oriented The Boys.

"I think in between [The Boys and a traditional horror movie]. We've got a different group of people on board, and they might not be as darkly bent as I am," McFarlane told ComicBook.com back in July. "If you ask me, I'd make it ugly, dark, make children cry. But the play we're trying for, and we'll see whether it works, and we'll know by the end of this year -- we're taking a pretty big moonshot of what we think we can pull off in Hollywood. If we can pull it off, it will be a big deal, financially, and once you get into those conversations, they're going to want to do it in a way that they can then get their money back."

McFarlane was once set as both writer and director of the Jamie Foxx vehicle, though he's now left both of those positions behind in order to get the movie made.

"My original plan has gotten tripped up a bit," McFarlane says. "You deal with a lot, given Hollywood. None of that should be surprising. But, you start bringing on A-list people. And we're bringing on A-list people. Not just one, but multiple A-list people. And, it's going to continue to grow... What they're not going to want is to do a cheap, low-budget movie with all of these big-name people on it. That's not why they're signing up. They're not looking for a big extravaganza. But, they're also not looking for an 8 million dollar horror movie budget."

Spawn has yet to set a release date.

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