By Rick Marshall at MTV News
Much has been made of Todd McFarlane’s plans for a new, live-action “Spawn” movie based on the character he created in the early 1990s. Back in May, we brought you the first word on how he plans to bring the character back to the big screen in a much darker, grittier film that puts less emphasis on the supernatural side of Spawn, with McFarlane name-checking Leo DiCaprio (“The Departed”) as an actor well-suited to play one of the detectives playing a lead role in the film.
During 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 screen.
“The reason I want to go small with it is that it’s a completely R-rated movie,” said McFarlane. “If I sell it up big, studios want that PG-13.”
“They’re a little bit gun-shy with ‘Watchmen’ not doing the numbers they’d like,” he explained. “But I’ve met people who make $5 million dollar movies for a living, and they walk around with the biggest grins on their faces.”
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In all fairness, The Watchmen had a lot of blood. I’ve seen the movie a few times and still have not watched the part with Rorschach in the prison cell. So if it has a few less pints of blood, it will still be R-rated and ‘d be much more willing to go see it. But Graphic Novels do lend themselves to that type of movie, so you have to have that kind of visual to do it justice.
What do you think of R-rated movies like this? Do you think Spawn would be better R-rated or PG-13?
