One of the most demonic superheroes is getting a fresh breathe on the big screen, as Jamie Foxx is set to play the role of ‘Spawn’. The news was confirmed today by Deadline Hollywood, with the upcoming adaption directed by the character’s creator and comic book maverick Todd McFarlane. The character had huge success in the 90’s in comics that were not published by DC or Marvel, and went on to a live-action film starring Michael Jai White and an animated series on HBO.

“The scariest movies, from Jaws to John Carpenter’s The Thing, or The Grudge and The Ring, the boogeyman doesn’t talk,” McFarlane told Deadline. “It confuses people because of the comic book industry, and because they all default into their Captain America mindset and I keep saying, no, get into John Carpenter’s mindset or Hitchcock. This is not a man in a rubber suit, it’s not a hero that’s going to come and save the damsel. It’s none of that. At the end of the movie, I’m hoping that the audience will say either, is this a ghost that turns into a man, or is it a man that turns into a ghost? I’ve got a trilogy in mind here, and I’m not inclined in this first movie to do an origin story. I’m mentally exhausted from origin stories. Luckily, there’s a movie that just came out that helps my cause. In A Quiet Place, the first thing on screen is a card in black and white letters that says Day 89. It doesn’t care about what happened in those first 88 days. There are a couple headlines, but then we are on day 450. That movie doesn’t worry about explaining and giving all the answers. What it said in that case was, if you can hang on for a story of survival of this family, this movie will make complete sense for you.” Read the entire article here. 

Not familiar with Spawn? WatchMojo will catch you up.

The original movie had some grittiness to it, but it was bit before it’s time in terms of special effects and the general expectations we have earned for superhero movies since have gone way up. The always snarky Nostalgia Critic sliced up the 1997 adaption in this episode below. Yes, it looks like Playstation 1. And no it was seen as a success.