McFarlane is getting up there in age. His daughter is a doctor and most likely his family doesn’t want to take over his business. At some point we all have to let go of things.
McFarlane can literally doodle on a napkin and sell it when he needs quick cash. He’s not hurting for money.
Sounds a bit like the famous Dali checks.
Allegedly, Salvador Dali would go to a restaurant, eat, and pay with a check he’d do a doodle on. The restaurant would then frame the check with the art as opposed to ever depositing it. Free meal!
Might be why he’s sold the toy company - never been shy about backing himself.
OMG, that means it’s going to be horrible, just like the first one. McFarlane proved he’s good at running a toy company. I was never into toys but I know some who had their own criticism of the toys he made.
I liked his early ASM art (despite it being more noisy to hide likely mess ups and sloppiness), but beyond that, he’s proven he’s not very good at writing, directing and most other things except his toy line business and we can probably give some credit due to his notoriety and fame from his early comic book days along with his fame from Spawn in the early 90s. Anyone else starting out with their own toy line would have probably had to work much harder to land licensing deals I’d imagine. But that’s just all my opinion but I think a lot of it is not far from the truth.
If he wants this Spawn movie to be a success, I really think he needs to let someone else take the lead on writing, directing and so on. He wants too much control, I get it, it’s his baby creation but it’s time for him to let go of that dream of being “everything” for this film he’s been yearning to remake since the first one that was a utter and complete failure…
Just saw a Dunkin Donuts commercial that centered on Gambit/channing tatum. I actually love him as gambit. Cracks me up.
Was surprised to see him featured in a commercial.
I wish Disney would do a solo Gambit movie (since FOX couldnt do it…)
Love Channing as Gambit
If Lucas could do it….
I was thinking Nolan myself…
Idiot
Now, if he was waiting for a Quintana signature… 
I bet you money, there gonna be someone doing same shxx buying Avenger Doomsday Ticket…
Instead of trying to just reboot Spawn, I wish McFarlane would instead take a different direction. A Gunslinger Spawn movie would be bad ass. Instead of trying another Al Simmons Spawn movie, that approach could reintroduce the concept of Spawn without having to just “try again” with the same old stuff you’d expect from an origin movie.
Why he won’t give us what all fans want, a Kevin Hart Spawn movie. With the Rock as the Clown.
Honestly, I think Spawn would be better if done in a really dark and gritty animated film rather than live action. Get some bad ass anime director on the project, let them do their thing and it would make Spawn that much cooler.
Cell shaded.
A Spawn movie would work best as a horror flick with minimal actual Spawn. Terrible people who suddenly have a terrifying, mysterious force after them, freaking out and trying to avoid it. Then we get the glimpses of Spawn as he gets them and takes them to Hell or such. Somebody give me a royalty check and a film credit!
You should write a treatment
Meh, I need to write those couple novellas and a possible novel I keep drafting up ideas for, but not outright getting much done first.