McFarlane on Spawn 2

Todd McFarlane spoke about his involvement with the sequel to his comic book creation Spawn which he produced back in 1997.  Though he plans for a 2007 release of a Spawn 2, he does confirm that there will be most definitly be a sequel.

 

"I'm in the middle of the script and will have to do some rewrites, but I'm hoping by the end of the year, I'll be behind the camera," says McFarlane.  "You can do wonderful movies for under $10 million...I've got the money, so I'm going to write it, produce it and direct it."  You can read the rest of the article right here. 

 

McFarlane also notes that the second film will focus mainly on a character named Twitch.  If this is so, where is Twitch's other half, Sam?  Twitch and Sam are a duo villain pair.  Twitch is the brains of the two who is also an superb marksmen. 

 

One of the most popular independent comic books of its decade was transformed into this dark, bloody adventure intended to launch a profitable superhero franchise. Michael Jai White stars as Al Simmons, a corrupt assassin betrayed and murdered by his evil government supervisor, Jason Wynn (Martin Sheen). Sent to Hell, Simmons is offered a chance to return to the earthly plane if he will become a "Hellspawn" ("Spawn" for short), one of many super-powered creatures assigned to encourage living souls along the path to damnation.

Simmons hastily agrees to this deal and becomes a twisted, scarred version of his former self, living in a dingy alleyway, with no hope of regaining his life, as several years have passed and his wife Wanda (Theresa Randle) has married his best friend, Terry Fitzgerald (D.B. Sweeney). Despite the best efforts of his mentor, a demonic clown (John Leguizamo), Spawn performs mostly heroic acts, though he is not above seeking revenge on Wynn. Despite the film's middling box office take, plans for a sequel were announced. The same summer that Spawn was released, the comic was also the basis of a well-received cable TV series.