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‘Saw VII’ Going to Be in 3-D?
Shock confirmed their own rumor last night that Lionsgate will be shooting Saw VII in 3-D. Why don’t I care? This is an unusual feeling, considering I’m pretty excited for Saw VI, which arrives in theaters October 23. The seventh film is to be directed by David Hackl, who delivered the lackluster fifth film in the franchise. Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton will pen the screenplay once again with the plan to get the film in theaters by October of 2010. No word on what the film will be. For those of you Saw super fans out there, go check out Melton and Dunstan’s The Collector in theaters now, you won’t be disappointed.
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Todd McFarlane Reveals He’s Sitting on Unreleased Animated ‘Spawn’ Movie Starring Keith David
While updates on the Spawn movie from Blumhouse have stalled, Todd McFarlane surprised at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend with the reveal that he’s been sitting on an animated film.
Moreover, the comic creator revealed to Comic Book that his unreleased animated Spawn film is mostly completed, and stars Keith David and Mark Hamill.
McFarlane explained to the outlet that he’s uninterested in expanding upon the 1997 live-action film in series form. That’s when he revealed his animated feature: “I don’t know if I’ve ever said, we developed, we were in the process of developing the return of this Spawn animation a while back. And then we, I got in a fight at the very end with the production and the lawyer, so I just bought it all back.”
The film is mostly ready to go, too.
“So I actually have a 90-minute animated show that’s all been drawn, minus the cells. All the voices have been done. Everything, like, we’re ready. All we need is a little bit of Foley, which is sound effects and stuff, and then hand it to a studio to actually draw, right? We’re like, it’s just been sitting in a box waiting to go. I have just been sitting on that going, no, I think I need to get like the movie out, and then boom, once the movie comes out, if there’s any success, then come out with that, but it’s sitting there. So anybody that wants to do animation, the first thing I’m going to do is say, hey, I’ve got this ready to tee up,” McFarlane said.
McFarlane also confirms that Keith David voices Spawn, while Hamill takes on a detective named Twitch.
It’s been a long, hard road out of development hell with his brand new Spawn feature, which Todd McFarlane had originally planned to direct. Jamie Foxx had been attached to play the title character at one point, but we have no idea if that’s still the plan as it’s been a couple of years since the last update.
Perhaps this mostly completed animated Spawn feature will see release first?