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Spawn Could be the Jaws of Superhero Movies! |
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Thursday, 13 January 2011 04:55 |
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In an Interview with Geoff Boucher At the LA Times's Hero Complex, The comic icon discusses his past success, and hopes for his Spawn movie.
GB: The success went well beyond comics, too, with television, toys and film. Are there any new adaptation efforts in the pipeline?
TM: One of the things that happened is after the first movie came out I started the toy company and sort of got distracted. But these days, as you might imagine, with the [Hollywood] success of Batman and Spider-Man and some of the Marvel titles, everybody’s on a comic-book buying binge and the phone constantly rings. My attitude toward it is I can’t get my head wrapped around some big special-effects movie with a supervillain in there. There will be plenty of those and they’ve done pretty well.
I’ve always seen Spawn as being cut from a different cloth.
It’s more of an urban, psychological |