Todd McFarlane insists his Spawn movie reboot is happening, starts making threats

Wake up, honey. Todd McFarlane has said once again that his Spawn movie reboot is close to finally happening.The thing about pop culture news is that sometimes it feels like you're stuck in a bizarre Groundhog Day-type of situation, and the most infamous example in recent memory might be that of the long-hyped big-screen Spawn reboot, which aims to right the wrongs of the not-very-good 1997 movie. Spawn creator Todd McFarlane has been trying incredibly hard to get it made for what feels like aeons now, but his rather empty updates (besides a couple of solid casting news) have slowly become more of a recurring gag.During NYCC 2023, we learned that Blumhouse founder and CEO Jason Blum, one of the busiest and most successful people in the business at the moment, wanted to make the movie feel undoubtedly Blumhouse™ (hopefully like one of the good ones). As far as we know, screenwriters Scott Silver (Joker), Malcolm Spellman (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), and Matthew Mixon were hired to rewrite the screenplay in late 2022, and now McFarlane has told ComicBook.com that a new draft will be ready for him "this month." Read more