While at NYCC2022, Screen Rant had the opportunity to chat with the great Todd_McFarlane about his longevity in the industry and the journey to the next Spawn film:
One of the most beloved comic book characters of the early 1990s, Spawn single-handedly propelled Image Comics into the mainstream. Now, three decades later, the character continues to resonate with new generations of fans and is held in the same esteem as the best that Marvel and DC have to offer.
You can't quantify that on a spreadsheet in advance, which is what public companies have to do. They have to go a different way. They're obligated by law. The executives have what is called a feduciary responsibility. They're just doing their job. I'm not saying it's right or wrong or good or bad. It's just their job. But I don't have to follow the same set of rules. I can try different things. I've learned there's enough of a hunger and an audience.
Two, I also need to be successful enough so that I can be an example to creative people who have ideas. Budding entrepreneurs will say, "Maybe I can do it too, since there's that little punk, Todd, and he wasn't very good. He wasn't very smart. But he was somehow able to navigate through the world of art and business, and not only lived to tell about it, but at times, actually shined." So maybe it's doable, because I'm a living example.
I have to let people who've made careers for themselves, and studios that are going to invest their own money, in. All of them are going to want to do things that they know will be right for this movie. I don't want to be that guy who comes in and is an auteur and says, "No, it must be my way or it's wrong!" I don't want to be that guy. I want to be a team player. My goal for the movie is to make the best movie we can.
My job isn't to say, "Hey, this is how the movie should be!" That's not my job. My job is to help hire them and give them the confidence and trust they are warranted by their track record! I go, "If you have any questions about Spawn, I'm here to answer any and all of them." And they've been peppering me with questions. It doesn't mean they're gonna use any of what I say, and they're gonna go and make a movie.
Todd McFarlane: Being cool, being badass, and being around for 30 years. Attrition matters. Time matters. You come up with an idea, and you pound it over and over and over again. Why do we know Charmin toilet paper? There's a lot of other toilet paper out there. But they've been around and they get in your face with the commercial. They'll never let you forget that there's a brand of toilet paper called Charmin.
Todd McFarlane: We do have iterations on him. But for the most part, whatever those changes are, he's still instantly recognizable as Spawn. He used to have a little more red in his costume. I made it more black. He has a different amount of spikes no from when he did back then. [Laughs] But you still go, "Oh, that's him."
Todd McFarlane: Here's the thing about art. Every artist always wants to take their work back, five minutes after they hand it in. You're never satisfied. There's no comic book, toy, or anything I've ever done, where I went, "That's perfect. I wouldn't change it if I had five more minutes." You would always change it.
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