Leonardo DiCaprio as Spawn!

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That was a lie.  But it sure grabbed your attention, didn’t it?  And if there is one thing Todd McFarlane is good at – it’s grabbing the spotlight and never letting go.  And now he is on record as wanting DiCaprio in a Spawn movie.  But before we utter a collective, “WTF?” let’s take a minute and breathe.

McFarlane envisions the Spawn movie done by blending the styles of horror movies and crime dramas.  DiCaprio would be playing one of the detectives working on  a case and discovering the fact that “something weird is out there”.  In my mind’s eye I can see Spawn being shot this way and the subsequent failure the movie would be.  A Spawn movie where Spawn isn’t the lead character?  On what idiot planet in this multiverse does this even sound like a remotely good idea?  Lot of people think we should do right by the creators of the characters we all love, but what do we do when the creator is spitting out moronic ideas like this?

MTV News has the interview here.

In other news, in a throwaway quote in that very same article, McFarlane mentioned he probably couldn’t Sam and Twitch in the movie because he’s pitching them as a separate property to Hollywood.  I don’t know about you guys but I’d much rather see a Sam and Twitch movie than another Spawn.  Can we cast John Goodman as Sam and Bill Irwin as Twitch?  Let’s make this happen!