Jamie Foxx is set to star in Spawn, the Blumhouse film that marks the directorial debut of Todd McFarlane from his scripted adaptation of his comic book creation. Foxx will play the character who started out in the comics as Al Newman, a member of a CIA black ops team who is betrayed twice. After being set up by his cohorts to be murdered with his corpse set aflame, Newman is double crossed in Hell. He is convinced to become a Hellspawn warrior in exchange for being able to be reunited with his wife. But Spawn finds himself stuck in a demonic creature shell, and that his wife moved on and married his best friend. So this is one pissed off antihero who attends to dispatching the scum of the city in good and evil battles that encompass earth, heaven and hell.
Jamie Foxx to star in Todd McFarlane’s ‘Spawn’
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It’s Al Simmons not Al Newman.
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Oh, to be sure, it will be heavily influenced by the life and career of Al Newman. They just won’t be using his actual name.
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Its Al Newman. “While Al Newman doesn’t appear in the comic series, his backstory and motivations are nearly identical to Al Simmons, who debuted in Spawn #1, in 1992. The comic was wildly popular and–pun intended–spawned an HBO animated series as well as a 1997 feature film which starred Michael Jai White as Al Simmons.”
He’s not Simmons, he’s a Newman lol.
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This is honestly great news. Foxx deserves another shot in the comic book genre. I felt bad for him in TASM 2 cause he tried really hard to do something cool with Electro but that movie as a whole just didn’t work so I’m glad he gets another crack at a comic book character. Solid casting.
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How the hell does Foxx keep landing such primo roles?
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Spawn is maybe my favorite CB hero after Batman and Superman, I’ve read all the first 15 volumes published by Delcourt… but come on, Todd McFarlane as a “movie director”?
