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Kevin Smith Bringing ‘Spawn’ Spinoff “Sam and Twitch” to the Small Screen
While we wait for the new Spawn movie that Todd McFarlane has long been teasing, we can at least look forward to seeing spinoff characters Sam and Twitch on the small screen.
Deadline is reporting that BBC America has nabbed Kevin Smith to write, direct, and executive produce a series based on the Sam and Twitch comic book series. The show, presumably titled “Sam and Twitch,“ will center on the big-city homicide detectives, first introduced in a 1992 issue of Spawn, who face a series of super grizzly crimes that are connected to the occult.
Sam Burke and Twitch Williams got their own comic series in 1999.
BBC America’s president and GM, Sarah Barnett, had this to say about the project:
I bumped into Kevin Smith at Sundance and he is beyond himself excited about this, about the show. Its kind of frightening and sort of gallows humor. It’s, again, procedural, but in a very modern, contemporary way. So each episode is closed ended, although there are certain character-serialized aspects to the storytelling.
Meanwhile, Smith himself tweeted that Sam & Twitch are the “Jay & Silent Bob of cops,” adding that he “can’t wait to go to Hell & back.”
We have the Jason Universe to thank for the recent return of Jason Voorhees, with the short film Sweet Revenge and Jason’s arrival in Dead by Daylight helping to bring the hockey mask-wearing horror icon back into our lives. What else is planned, you ask?
In a chat with Variety this week, Jason Universe’s Robbie Barsamian teases that everything we’ve seen up to this point is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Jason’s return.
“We’ve been busy behind the scenes laying the foundation that everyone is finally starting to see come to life, but this is just the tip of the iceberg,” Barsamian teases.
“We have a thrilling lineup of new projects that we can’t wait to share more details on soon.”
Barsamian also notes during the chat with Variety, “We want to give fans fresh takes on what they love most about Jason and continue to expand his world in authentic ways that resonate with horror fans today.” One of those expansions will take the form of the upcoming Peacock and A24 series “Crystal Lake,” which stars Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees.
“The Crystal Lake TV series will take fans back in time to tell the story of how Pamela Voorhees came to be the mother of all slashers,” Barsamian tells Variety this week.
“Crystal Lake” premieres October 15 on Peacock.
Callum Vinson (“Chucky”) is playing young Jason in “Crystal Lake,” which will tell the origin story of the masked slasher who has stalked the grounds of Crystal Lake for decades.
Last year, the Jason Universe team had teased that a new movie and a new video game are top priorities for the near future. But at this time we have no updates on either front.
Stay tuned for more from the Jason Universe.
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