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Leonardo DiCaprio Taking No ‘Prisoners’
The hype started last March when the Hollywood Reporter dubbed Aaron Guzikowski’s screenplay, Prisoners as “One of the hottest scripts in town.” Now, after losing a string of mega-stars (Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman), along with directors Bryan Singer and Antoine Fuqua, the project is limping along. Deadline reports that Shutter Island star Leonardo DiCaprio could revive the pic, but his involvement depends on who gets behind the camera (they note that since 2002, he has made 4 films with Martin Scorsese and the only other directors he’s worked with have been Chris Nolan, Ridley Scott, Sam Mendes, and Ed Zwick). Prisoners has a Mystic River-meets-Taken storyline, and DiCaprio wants to play a small-town carpenter who takes matters into his own hands when his daughter and her friend are kidnapped. Warner Bros will distribute. DiCaprio will likely make another movie before taking Prisoners.
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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?