"Scrub the first movie, it was 20 years ago," he has insisted. "It's going to be a dark, R-rated, scary, badass script that's tight, and it's not a nice, polite PG-13 with ray guns."
-Todd McFarlane
He has even gone as far as to say that it won't be a superhero film: "It's not a comic book movie, it's just a scary movie, a creepy movie. Everything's real except for one element, which happens to be the character we know as Spawn. It's not going to be supervillain versus superhero. Think of The Departed with something moving in the shadows."
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