Blumhouse’s ‘King Spawn’ In Search Of Director For Film Based On Image Comics Characters

Todd McFarlane is sharing an update on King Spawn, a film based on characters from Image Comics.

The President and co-founder of Image Comics and Blumhouse teased earlier this week that a script titled King Spawn, written by Matt Nixon, Malcolm Spellman, and Scott Silver, was ready for production.

In a new interview, McFarlane clarified that the title is only a working title for now, noting that the movie is not an adaptation of the comic book series.

“It’s probably just a working title. I think it’s cool. It’s strong,” McFarlane said in an interview with ComicBook. “The thing is, is that it was a way for us to say that we’re not just gonna emulate the past and he felt by just calling it Spawn plain old Spawn that it would sort of go, oh, this is just a reboot and, and repeat. So I don’t know if that would be the final title or whatever.”

The King Spawn comic book series was released in August 2021 as the first spinoff of the Spawn series. King Spawn is an anti-hero in the Spawn universe who asserts “his powers on Earth by corrupting as many souls as possible. And only Spawn knows that he even exists.”

One of the writers of King Spawn is Scott Silver, who also co-wrote with Todd Phillips Joker and Joker: Folie à Deux.

Although the script for the movie is done, McFarlane says that they are now in search of a director and will be waiting to see how Deadpool and Wolverine do this weekend, followed by the Joker sequel later this year, to support their idea to make an R-rated film.

“I know it’s frustrating to people, but having a script is a giant hurdle to get over, and we’re over (it),” he told ComicBook. “The weight of that piece is there now. It’s just putting a couple of different pieces together. And let’s see what the executives in Hollywood think about it.”

McFarlane says they have a list of directors they are considering but have not landed on one yet. The King Spawn creator hopes to get a director who would “be an additive to the project so that the studios get even more excited.”

He continued, “Because if the studios feel confident that they got a team that they can just say ‘Go, Here we go. We bought it, now go.’ That will just speed up all of this that much faster.”