Popular comic book character Spawn is getting its own live-action film.

Spawn creator, Todd McFarlane, has been trying to get the project off the ground for a while now, having pitched the idea multiple times over the past two years. Rewrites and the pandemic have heavily stalled the process, despite locking a deal with horror production company, Blumhouse, as well as enlisting Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Renner in starring roles.

Brian Tucker is set to write the screenplay based on the eponymous comic books yet no production date has been announced yet.

The effort to adapt the film comes after the first attempt in 1997, yet it did not capture the hearts of fans and went on to become a box office and critical failure. 

Spawn is the brainchild of writer and artist Todd McFarlane who created it after the launch of his independent comic publishing house, Image Comics. The series started publishing in 1992, setting the record for independent comic books after it sold 1.7 million copies. It is notable for its long run and variety of talented writers who covered it, as it remains in publication to this day.

The comic book tells the story of a CIA operative who dies and gets resurrected after forming a pact with the devil. This turns him into Spawn, a soul-hunting masked vigilante. It is notable for having a black man in the lead of a popular fictional series in the '90s as the status was mostly reserved for white men at the times.