Todd McFarlane
Todd McFarlane
Todd McFarlaneis a Canadian artist, writer, designer and entrepreneur, best known for his work in comic books, such as the fantasy series Spawn...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth16 March 1961
CityCalgary, Canada
CountryCanada
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Once the character was established, I felt that I had to build a strong foundation for the Spawn brand name, ... To build a strong foundation you need four pillars. In the comic book industry, those pillars are television, video games, movies and toys or ancillary products. If you have a good foundation and pillars, you'd be surprised what you can build. You could even build skyscrapers
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Batman is easily my most favorite character beside Spawn.
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I believe the nature of the Hanna-Barbera brand will allow us to bring to life a wonderful new world of action figures, which will be embraced by collectors and fans alike. We will be utilizing the full range of McFarlane talent for this collection and applying our characteristic style and finesse to the timeless Hanna-Barbera characters.
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The plans this year are for me to finish the script that I'm working on and to finance and direct the live action Spawn movie myself.
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This is the new generation's cult classic film; fans will be repeating the lines over and over just like my generation did with three or four movies when I was 13.
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We knew we wanted to make the soldiers look realistic,
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I have to believe that a soldier doesn't do everything by the book when bullets are whizzing by their heads in battle, ... That's when survival and preservation instincts kick in and it's at that moment where you will find the best, authentic pose.
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I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.
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There hasn't been a big show in New York for a few years. It's sort of like the NFL not having a team in Los Angeles. It will be a good old-fashioned geek fest.
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Why can't plastic figures appeal to 22-year-olds? ... The answer is they can. It's just subject matter.
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I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.
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That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.
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I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.
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It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts.