Report: Todd McFarlane Has A Bunch Of “Spawn: The Animated Series” Pre-Prod Work But Is Still A Long Ways Off From It Being Anything

Comicbook.com is just terrible.

In a recent episode of their podcast Talking Shop, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane dropped by where he, yet again, assures us that something Spawn-animated is coming and, in fact, has 90-minutes of unused material that could be potentially used as part of a movie, TV series, or whatever.

The report on what’s actually had, is terrible. Comicbook ran with the 90 minutes and noted that this means a 90-minute project is on the way. The embarrassing thing is that isn’t what Todd said at all, and to prove it, here’s an excerpt from the Comicbook.com article on what Todd had this to say in the interview:

“Actually years ago we started a second go-round at it, and I still have all of that work. And it includes all the voice recordings and everything. So I’ve got about ninety minutes of a show ready, teed up, ready to go; the only thing I need to do is the cell animation, everything else has been designed. Obviously we need to put some music and sound effects or something – but yeah, I’ve been sitting on a 90-minute version of it for a long time. I’ve just been waiting to launch the movie to say ‘Hey, let’s tumble this all out at the appropriate time.’ But yeah, we’ll get animation done.”

I’ve got news for you folks, nobody is ordering 90-minutes of a TV show. It’s either a movie or a series of episodes. Then, just because you have 90 minutes produced, doesn’t always mean you’re going to use all 90-minutes. And it the animation hasn’t even been started on the project, that tells me that even if production were to kick off today, May 4th, 2020, we probably wouldn’t get a finished product until mid-late 2021 after you get done with editing, production, the whole nine yards.

That’s a long way from a 90-minute animated project for Spawn.