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Spawn Reboot With Jamie Foxx!!!! Usually when an actor says he’s interested in a role, it’s little more than talk. As a rule, few actors are ever going to turn town a role via an interview, and even when they specify something they want to play, that doesn’t mean it is anywhere close to happening. But when an actor who is also a producer says he’s “aggressively pursuing” a role, that’s different. That’s how Jamie Foxx talked about the comic book character Spawn in an interview at Comic Con. The character is a soldier murdered and condemned to hell, who is able to return to Earth as a “hellspawn,” a role against which he ultimately rebels. The character anchored a 1997 film starring Michael Jai White — the first major film featuring a black superhero as the lead — but creator Todd McFarlane wants to reboot Spawn in a new movie form. Put Foxx’s comment together with a past tease from McFarlane about having an Oscar-winning actor attached to the role for a reboot, and a picture starts to form.
Movies.com talked to Foxx at Comic Con, thanks to the fact that Foxx is playing Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, out next year. Asked about other roles Foxx wants, he said,
McFarlane has been talking about rebooting Spawn for years. The mid-’90s movie adaptation hit a few years before the current wave of superhero films really began, and McFarlane has said he wants the new version to be more harsh and gritty, with an R rating. Earlier this year McFarlane told MTV,
It’s easy to assume now that the actor in question is Foxx. Whether he’ll be able to make the film happen is another question, but if The Amazing Spider-Man 2 does well and people respond to his role as Electro, that could make things easier. Meanwhile, more details about Foxx’s possible turn as Mike Tyson would be great to get as well. Even Tyson wants that to happen (or did back in 2009), but Foxx has been linked to the role for years with no real movement. Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
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Interesting. | |
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Jesus Christ no, not Jamie Foxx.
Spawn is supposed to be a contracted hardass government killer before being roasted.
Idris Elba on the other hand
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Idris would be fucking great!!! never thought of that... Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
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Psssh you mad cause he died and you never been to hell Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
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My husband Idris would be a perfect fit. [Edited 9/5/13 4:25am] I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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Jamie Foxx??? Hell no!
Idris Elba - now you're talking! | |
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By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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I agree. I never liked Jamie. | |
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I'm puking because of Jamie Fox, Why Jamie Fox has been to hell???? | |
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no but Spawn has... don't pretend you don't know Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
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I know Spawn, he's alright. But Jamie Fox..............
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My husband Idris would be a perfect fit. [Edited 9/5/13 4:25am] | |
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Knowing Hollywood I wouldn't be surprise if the were also considering Samuel L Jackson, The Rock, or Morgan Freeman for the part. | |
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By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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Ummm read my post. I hate Jamie Fox. | |
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DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMNNNNNNNNNNNN Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
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Jamie Foxx as Spawn is as bad as Ben Affleck playing as Batman...oh, wait | |
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[Edited 9/5/13 15:12pm] | |
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By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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Jaime Foxx I will take my place, In the great below | |
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For the record I wasn't invited because they knew I would win, and it wasn't poker...it was crazy eights. | |
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By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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Your Jedi mind trick does not work on me | |
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