Jamie Foxx has been cast as Spawn!

Jamie Foxx is set to star in Todd Mcfarlane’s live adaptation of Spawn. Spawn was created by Mcfarlane himself and concerns the character of Al Newman, the long-running Image comic series’ character, popularly known by his demonic alter-ego, Spawn. Spawn gained popularity in the 1990s and has had a less than successful movie in 1997.

Todd McFarlane recently told Deadline,“Jamie came to my office five years ago, and he had an idea about Spawn and we talked about it… I never forgot him, and when I was writing this script, you sort of plug people in, and he was my visual guy and I never let go of him. When I got done and my agents and everybody was talking about what actor, I said, I’m going to Jamie first and until he says no I don’t want to think about anyone else because I’ve never had anyone else in my head. Luckily, he hadn’t forgotten either. I said, ‘hey, I’m back to talk about Spawn again, and he was like, let’s do it.’”

Spawn has no current release date.

By Jimmy Ioannou

Images Todd MacFarlane/Image Comics