Spawn Reboot | Blumhouse

[terry78]

I guess MacFarlane is looking to play the long game. This thing does like twice or thrice it's budget he gets more for the sequel and others.

 

[Spidey_62]

I guess MacFarlane is looking to play the long game. This thing does like twice or thrice it's budget he gets more for the sequel and others.

I saw a video with him a few months ago talking about it like that, yeah. He wants to go small at first to ensure there's small risk and possibility of big profits while still being forced to think creatively to make things as cool as he can with the little budget. Honestly it's a pretty smart outlook for a first time director, have constraints and work around them, don't go too big. Plus he lives and breathes the character and his world so I'm sure he knows how to deliver on the mood of it.

 

[rogue trooper]

I’m sorry but you guys don’t know what you’re talking about

We should be looking at films like Insidious and Sinister which were also both from Blumhouse. Those films had a 1.5 and 3 million dollar budget respectively. Spawn’s budget is tentatively set at 10-11 million. I think they’re going to do great things, and the lack of a big budget will only force more creativity

Exactly. I can see this film possibly being very much about serial murders done by Billy Kincaid, with Spawn caught in the middle of this. I've also been thinking what an effective aspect it could be Spawn using his shape-shifting abilities in this film in a kinda' unexpected way ala Carpenter's The Thing.

 

[Teelie]

The budget is just symptomatic of the bigger problem: Spawn is barely in his own movie. He's a jump scare, not the main character.

 

[terry78]

I admit ILM did a good ass job with the fx in the 1997 one considering the budget.

 

[Rorschach2012]

Exactly. I can see this film possibly being very much about serial murders done by Billy Kincaid, with Spawn caught in the middle of this. I've also been thinking what an effective aspect it could be Spawn using his shape-shifting abilities in this film in a kinda' unexpected way ala Carpenter's The Thing.

That’s exactly what I was thinking regarding the plot. And this is perfect because it almost guarantees a sequel with this limited budget. I can wait for the sequel to get more of an idea of Spawn’s backstory

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I don't think it needs a $200 million dollar budget. Not even $100 million. Something comparable to what they had before around $50 million should be more than enough without it looking and sounding like an ultra low budget B-movie which it already does. And it's called Spawn, not Sam & Twitch sort of featuring Spawn, which is really what it is. Who wants to see a movie about say, Superman that almost exclusively focuses on Perry White and Lois Lane but has almost nothing but blurry occasional photos of Superman? This is the equivalent of that.

Yeah this is where I am at.

 

[jmc]

Regarding the budget. I'm wondering if Blumhouse have been banking a lot more cash than what we realise. Looking at their slate of movies over the last 9 or so years they've made a crap load of movies for less than $10m that went onto make a truck load:

Paranomal Activity series - Total Budget: $28m / Box Office: $880m
Insidious series - Total Budget: $16.5m / Box Office: $538m
The Purge series - Total Budget: $25m / Box Office: $319m
Get Out - Total Budget: $4.5m / Box Office: $255m
Split - Total budget: $9m / Box Office $278m

So, they've made over $2B dollars from those series films alone on a total budget of $83m. Spread in amongst this is a truck load of films making anywhere from 10-20 times their productions budgets back. Judging from these figures if they wanted to splurge a little more on a Spawn film they could easily do it.

 

[Rorschach2012]

They would be fools not to title this “Spawn”. It’s been 21 years since the last one. No need for a dumb subtitle like “Spawn: Reborn” or something

 

[MadderMaximus]

I would cringe if they put anything like "reborn" or "resurrection" in the title...ugh.

 

[Deck Rickard]

They would be fools not to title this “Spawn”. It’s been 21 years since the last one. No need for a dumb subtitle like “Spawn: Reborn” or something

I'm partial to Dawn of the Spawn.

 

[eon001]

I don't think it needs a $200 million dollar budget. Not even $100 million. Something comparable to what they had before around $50 million should be more than enough without it looking and sounding like an ultra low budget B-movie which it already does. And it's called Spawn, not Sam & Twitch sort of featuring Spawn, which is really what it is. Who wants to see a movie about say, Superman that almost exclusively focuses on Perry White and Lois Lane but has almost nothing but blurry occasional photos of Superman? This is the equivalent of that.

The difference between Superman and Spawn is Spawn is a horror. You could see Todd wanted to go in darker direction with the HBO animation.

Even with the freedom of animation Todd kept Spawn pretty subdued and in the shadows.

And tbh I would be against a street level movie about Perry and Lois with the heroes in the background. You should read Marvels. It's about human level stories within the Marvel universe.

 

[StarLord]

I'm partial to Dawn of the Spawn.

Spawn of Justice.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Spawn of Justice.

DING DING DING!

We have a winner!

Oh man. Could you imagine if MacFarlane and Zack Snyder teamed up to do a film that combined the plots of BvS and Spawn/Batman? That would have the potential to be the worst movie ever made.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I'd watch it

 

[Deck Rickard]

So would I. Two hours of Batman hunched over, calling everyone a "twit" while Spawn kills a bunch of people and Superman silently broods.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Only 2 hours? Dude, if Zack Snyder is involved, this will be closer to 2.5/3 hrs

 

[StarLord]

So would I. Two hours of Batman hunched over, calling everyone a "twit" while Spawn kills a bunch of people and Superman silently broods.

You mean Batman?

 

[Teelie]

BatSpawn

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I actually think Snyder would make a really good Spawn movie, the character suits his style.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

So would I. Two hours of Batman hunched over, calling everyone a "twit" while Spawn kills a bunch of people and Superman silently broods.

The greatest story in the history of stories.

 

[Lantern Venom]

I admit ILM did a good ass job with the fx in the 1997 one considering the budget.

Spawn in particular looked really good. The morphing face, the chains, the living cape...those were things that hadn't really been attempted in '97. It's unfortunate that the film has largely been forgotten, since it did so many things right, but Spawn's story isn't for everyone. Perhaps the new film will fare better in the golden age of super hero cinema.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Only 2 hours? Dude, if Zack Snyder is involved, this will be closer to 2.5/3 hrs

Haha, true! I didn't think about that.

You mean Batman?

LOL, well in Spawn/Batman, Bats resents Spawn for slaughtering a bunch of bad guys. Bats still comes off like the bigger A-hole though because he just spends the whole time complaining and insulting Spawn. But yeah, they'd have to rework that plot since Snyder-Bats likes to murder bad guys too.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Spawn in particular looked really good. The morphing face, the chains, the living cape...those were things that hadn't really been attempted in '97. It's unfortunate that the film has largely been forgotten, since it did so many things right, but Spawn's story isn't for everyone. Perhaps the new film will fare better in the golden age of super hero cinema.

The CGI cape hasn't aged well but Spawn's costume still looks pretty awesome IMO. Anyone know what material they used for that? It actually looked organic, like it was really part of him. And Clown looked pretty awesome too. The makeup team on that film deserves more respect than they've ever gotten.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I saw the first movie way back when I was really young and I thought Spawn looked awesome.

In other recent news, Blumhouse's Upgrade has garnered a lot of acclaim for what it was able to achieve from a visuals/technical perspective on a shoestring budget. I have no idea what it particularly means since I haven't seen the movie myself but it's still something that we can consider reassuring.