list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Spawn on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Spawn/112835/default.aspx Title: Spawn
Year: 1997
Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé
Plot: One of the most popular independent comic books of its decade was transformed into this dark, bloody adventure intended to launch a profitable superhero franchise. Michael Jai White stars as Al Simmons, a corrupt assassin betrayed and murdered by his evil government supervisor, Jason Wynn (Martin Sheen). Sent to Hell, Simmons is offered a chance to return to the earthly plane if he will become a "Hellspawn" ("Spawn" for short), one of many super-powered creatures assigned to encourage living souls along the path to damnation. Simmons hastily agrees to this deal and becomes a twisted, scarred version of his former self, living in a dingy alleyway, with no hope of regaining his life, as several years have passed and his wife Wanda (Theresa Randle) has married his best friend, Terry Fitzgerald (D.B. Sweeney). Despite the best efforts of his mentor, a demonic clown (John Leguizamo), Spawn performs mostly heroic acts, though he is not above seeking revenge on Wynn. Despite the film's middling box office take, plans for a sequel were announced. The same summer that Spawn was released, the comic was also the basis of a well-received cable TV series. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:41:56 GMTSpawn1997Mark A.Z. DippéOne of the most popular independent comic books of its decade was transformed into this dark, bloody adventure intended to launch a profitable superhero franchise. <a href="/players/P___221388/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Michael Jai White</a> stars as Al Simmons, a corrupt assassin betrayed and murdered by his evil government supervisor, Jason Wynn (<a href="/players/P___111083/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Martin Sheen</a>). Sent to Hell, Simmons is offered a chance to return to the earthly plane if he will become a "Hellspawn" ("Spawn" for short), one of many super-powered creatures assigned to encourage living souls along the path to damnation. Simmons hastily agrees to this deal and becomes a twisted, scarred version of his former self, living in a dingy alleyway, with no hope of regaining his life, as several years have passed and his wife Wanda (<a href="/players/P____58737/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Theresa Randle</a>) has married his best friend, Terry Fitzgerald (D.B. Sweeney). Despite the best efforts of his mentor, a demonic clown (<a href="/players/P____41614/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>John Leguizamo</a>), Spawn performs mostly heroic acts, though he is not above seeking revenge on Wynn. Despite the film's middling box office take, plans for a sequel were announced. The same summer that Spawn was released, the comic was also the basis of a well-received cable TV series. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide4Slightly Tagged (1-5)1832http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t66432dwtdl.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Spawn/112835/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/7/8/32292.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 7/8/2008 3:01:14 PM
Body: (photo: La Jetée, Hellboy II: The Golden Army) Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army hits theaters this Friday. Del Toro is a rare filmmaker who, despite his unique vision, often works on projects based on material from an outside source (Pan’s Labyrinth being a notable exception). Assuming all the legal issues get ironed out,  he’ll next direct a two part film adaptation of Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the most prestigious property to date to get the del Toro treatment. Here are seven either failed or unjustly obscure movies ripe for being remade by Hellboy’s father. 1. Spawn - Todd McFarlane’s comic about a Hell-trotting anti-hero indebted to the Devil opened my young eyes to genuinely dark storytelling. While the 90s were a simpler time in terms of comic to movie adaptations, I was already dreaming about a big screen adaptation after reading the first issue. Unfortunately, my dream came true in 1997, when Mark A.Z. Dippé’s god-awful Spawn slumped into theaters. 2. The Never Ending Story - If you were to describe Pan’s Labyrinth as a story about a little girl with a cruel stepfather who escapes into a fantasy world with fairies and magical pan, it could sound like many tame children’s movies of the ’80s. The Never Ending Story del Toro style: the gnome is evil (or a least a little sadistic), the giant flying dog thing eats at least one sentient being, and the kid dies in the end. 3. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - This 1920 German Expressionist classic is one of the first horror films, and maybe the first ever movie with a twist ending. A black and white sound version was made by David Lee Fisher in 2006, where green screen was used to incorporate the original backgrounds. I picture del Toro’s version in color, with a few added plot flourishes. Who knows, maybe it could be the genesis of a new genre: Mexican Neo-Expressionism. 4. Jim Henson’s The Storyteller (watch the video, sorry it won’t embed)- While compiling this list, Adam Forrest started telling me about an episode of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller called The Heartless Giant. It felt like he was describing nightmares I had when I was seven (turns out the nightmare was actually a memory I had of watching this very episode). While still slightly goofy at times, it’s Henson at his creepiest, and I’d love to see del Toro pick up where the puppet master left off. Other freaky Henson classics like The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth (keeping David Bowie in the cast, of course) would also be great, but I picked The Storyteller because del Toro could really kill in this semi-episodic TV format. 5. La Jetée (entire 27 minute film is embedded above)- This 1962 French short film consists only of a series of black and white photos accompanied by narration. It’s a stunning post-apocalyptic downer and an absolute must-see. Terry Gilliam already remade it as Twelve Monkeys, where he added a lot of story content in addition to quadrupling the original run time. I’d like to see del Toro build something different, but equally good, using La Jetée’s bare-bones structure. 6. Dungeons & Dragons - In 2000, the undisputed king of tabletop role playing games became the undisputed king of shitty movie adaptations. There are inherent problems in adapting a game like D&D to the screen, for one thing, the game is really just a rules system, the players provide the story. That being said, there have been countless supplemental “campaign settings” published which describe immensely imaginative worlds. I would particularly like to see what del Toro would do with Keith Baker’s fantasy-noir Eberron. 7. The Wizard of Oz - It would be pretty ballsy of del Toro to take this one on. In 1985 Walter Murch, known mostly for his stellar editing work, directed the wonderfully dark Return to Oz. While not a perfect film, it exploited the more disturbing dimensions of the Oz story, namely a lost girl in a strange world targeted by a supernatural evil. If all goes well with del Torro’s take on The Hobbit, I think the world will be ready to go back to an Oz where munchkins hanging themselves would no longer be confined to shadowy backgrounds. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:01:14 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com7/8/2008 3:01:14 PM (photo: La Jetée, Hellboy II: The Golden Army) Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army hits theaters this Friday. Del Toro is a rare filmmaker who, despite his unique vision, often works on projects based on material from an outside source (Pan’s Labyrinth being a notable exception). Assuming all the legal issues get ironed out,  he’ll next direct a two part film adaptation of Tolkien’s The Hobbit, the most prestigious property to date to get the del Toro treatment. Here are seven either failed or unjustly obscure movies ripe for being remade by Hellboy’s father. 1. Spawn - Todd McFarlane’s comic about a Hell-trotting anti-hero indebted to the Devil opened my young eyes to genuinely dark storytelling. While the 90s were a simpler time in terms of comic to movie adaptations, I was already dreaming about a big screen adaptation after reading the first issue. Unfortunately, my dream came true in 1997, when Mark A.Z. Dippé’s god-awful Spawn slumped into theaters. 2. The Never Ending Story - If you were to describe Pan’s Labyrinth as a story about a little girl with a cruel stepfather who escapes into a fantasy world with fairies and magical pan, it could sound like many tame children’s movies of the ’80s. The Never Ending Story del Toro style: the gnome is evil (or a least a little sadistic), the giant flying dog thing eats at least one sentient being, and the kid dies in the end. 3. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - This 1920 German Expressionist classic is one of the first horror films, and maybe the first ever movie with a twist ending. A black and white sound version was made by David Lee Fisher in 2006, where green screen was used to incorporate the original backgrounds. I picture del Toro’s version in color, with a few added plot flourishes. Who knows, maybe it could be the genesis of a new genre: Mexican Neo-Expressionism. 4. Jim Henson’s The Storyteller (watch the video, sorry it won’t embed)- While compiling this list, Adam Forrest started telling me about an episode of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller called The Heartless Giant. It felt like he was describing nightmares I had when I was seven (turns out the nightmare was actually a memory I had of watching this very episode). While still slightly goofy at times, it’s Henson at his creepiest, and I’d love to see del Toro pick up where the puppet master left off. Other freaky Henson classics like The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth (keeping David Bowie in the cast, of course) would also be great, but I picked The Storyteller because del Toro could really kill in this semi-episodic TV format. 5. La Jetée (entire 27 minute film is embedded above)- This 1962 French short film consists only of a series of black and white photos accompanied by narration. It’s a stunning post-apocalyptic downer and an absolute must-see. Terry Gilliam already remade it as Twelve Monkeys, where he added a lot of story content in addition to quadrupling the original run time. I’d like to see del Toro build something different, but equally good, using La Jetée’s bare-bones structure. 6. Dungeons & Dragons - In 2000, the undisputed king of tabletop role playing games became the undisputed king of shitty movie adaptations. There are inherent problems in adapting a game like D&D to the screen, for one thing, the game is really just a rules system, the players provide the story. That being said, there have been countless supplemental “campaign settings” published which describe immensely imaginative worlds. I would particularly like to see what del Toro would do with Keith Baker’s fantasy-noir Eberron. 7. The Wizard of Oz - It would be pretty ballsy of del Toro to take this one on. In 1985 Walter Murch, known mostly for his stellar editing work, directed the wonderfully dark Return to Oz. While not a perfect film, it exploited the more disturbing dimensions of the Oz story, namely a lost girl in a strange world targeted by a supernatural evil. If all goes well with del Torro’s take on The Hobbit, I think the world will be ready to go back to an Oz where munchkins hanging themselves would no longer be confined to shadowy backgrounds. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2007/8/22/18531.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 8/22/2007 10:04:39 AM
Body: indieWIRE points to the 17-page PDF detailing the 349 films that will unspool at next month’s Toronto International Film Festival. New details just announced today include a special screening of Grand Illusion presented by Peter Bogdanovich, who will in turn be presented an award for his film preservation efforts; Jason Reitman’s Juno, scripted by blogger Diablo Cody; and several Reel to Reel program additions, including a Joy Division doc by Grant Gee and a Lou Reed doc by Julian Schnabel. This is what the DVD format wars have wrought: Michael Bay came home from a dinner party and wrote a drunken blog post saying he wouldn’t do Transformers 2 unless Paramount starts releasing movies on Blu-ray. Cue massive internet scandal. Then the next day he was like, “Whoops. I really shouldn’t blog after midnight. HD DVD rocks!” The people who brought you Spawn and A History of Violence are partnering to bring “a revisionist take” on The Wizard of Oz to the screen. Don’t let that logline turn you off right away–Michael Fleming’s Variety story is actually fascinating. “Conversations with [Todd] McFarlane and [Josh] Olson make it clear that they are still working out the tone of the film,” Fleming writes. “McFarlane has a vision of Oz that is a dark, edgy and muscular PG-13, without a singing Munchkin in sight. That was clear with a toy line he launched several years ago that featured a buxom Dorothy and Toto reimagined as an oversized snarling warthog. Olson has something a little tamer, and PG, in mind.” Originally posted on:Spoutblog
]]>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:04:39 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com8/22/2007 10:04:39 AM indieWIRE points to the 17-page PDF detailing the 349 films that will unspool at next month’s Toronto International Film Festival. New details just announced today include a special screening of Grand Illusion presented by Peter Bogdanovich, who will in turn be presented an award for his film preservation efforts; Jason Reitman’s Juno, scripted by blogger Diablo Cody; and several Reel to Reel program additions, including a Joy Division doc by Grant Gee and a Lou Reed doc by Julian Schnabel. This is what the DVD format wars have wrought: Michael Bay came home from a dinner party and wrote a drunken blog post saying he wouldn’t do Transformers 2 unless Paramount starts releasing movies on Blu-ray. Cue massive internet scandal. Then the next day he was like, “Whoops. I really shouldn’t blog after midnight. HD DVD rocks!” The people who brought you Spawn and A History of Violence are partnering to bring “a revisionist take” on The Wizard of Oz to the screen. Don’t let that logline turn you off right away–Michael Fleming’s Variety story is actually fascinating. “Conversations with [Todd] McFarlane and [Josh] Olson make it clear that they are still working out the tone of the film,” Fleming writes. “McFarlane has a vision of Oz that is a dark, edgy and muscular PG-13, without a singing Munchkin in sight. That was clear with a toy line he launched several years ago that featured a buxom Dorothy and Toto reimagined as an oversized snarling warthog. Olson has something a little tamer, and PG, in mind.” Originally posted on:Spoutblog http://www.spout.com/blogs/alienlazer/archive/2007/6/12/10942.aspx Post By: AlienLazer
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Post Date: 6/12/2007 4:18:16 PM
Body: This movie was so awesome back when it first came out, and I'll still play my Director's Cut version of it every once in a while because John Leguizamo was so cool as an ugly, little clown and I just love Spawn's cape. Yep, it's all about the cape. I actually tried watching that whole three part animated feature, but I only got half-way through the second one before giving up because I wasn't even sleepy, yet I was dozing. My husband fell asleep during the first part. LOL
]]>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:18:16 GMTAlienLazerAlienLazer Blog6/12/2007 4:18:16 PMThis movie was so awesome back when it first came out, and I&#39;ll still play my Director&#39;s Cut version of it every once in a while because John Leguizamo was so cool as an ugly, little clown and I just love Spawn&#39;s cape. Yep, it&#39;s all about the cape. I actually tried watching that whole three part animated feature, but I only got half-way through the second one before giving up because I wasn&#39;t even sleepy, yet I was dozing. My husband fell asleep during the first part. LOL http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/love/MemberTagFilms.aspxlove
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