Michael Jai White’s Thoughts on Why the Spawn Movie Didn’t Work The Way It Should Have

and then you know you mentioned you mentioned

spawn

we had talked to todd mcfarlane and we

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't do it for a long time so

spawn

what I thought because you were you see? I

have

a guy again who is doing a lot of research. who does when with the character, even those questions that you ask Nolan, you always asked them, you would watch the HBO series, obviously in preparation to get into the

movie

, read the comics and all that to learn the backstory of Yes, the character I wanted to delve into, yes, until I realized it.

Damn, I'm doing spawn. I don't need to know what happens at spawn 22. Basically, I'm spawn. It's Al Simmons, no matter how much I want to know what's going on, yeah, he's Al Simmons and this is his birth and this is a chronicle when he's learning about himself, yeah, that's all I needed to look beyond what that I would take away. and you can't reproduce the effect correctly, you know, so you know I had to be that human being and connect with human beings that would be in that same situation, so you really know the extent to which I had to prepare when you go back and think about that

movie

. in general.

How did you do it? What are your general

thoughts

on the film? but in the first cut I had something like seventy-one special effects and the story was absolutely intact. You see my character starts out in a loving relationship and you see what his home life is and why he wants to

have

outside of doing the things he was doing well and then there was so much editing and so many changes, so many changes that the director, who was a guy from special effects, yeah, I think in the end there were like 414 special effects shots and he was I'm excited to do special effects shots and the story elements just suffered and suffered and there were no more scenes that represented, you know, the first years into the life of Al Simmons, so I felt like I got the gist of exactly what it's about, it's about the narrator, etc.

Now I look like a disgruntled person, you know, with a hamburger face, who's who is trying to please him, you know, I guess jeopardizing my best friend's relationship, because now he's showing it with my ex-wife, right, and then I thought Well, how does that happen? and then I learned how that happens, you know how funny that is and again from the beginning he was a big fan of spawned. I thought your performance in the movie was amazing. I really thought about it. I think it was a perfect cast for the future. On paper, I agree with you, although I think a lot of the things I loved, like the HBO series in the comic, were sacrificed and within that, what I did, you think also because the comic book movies were very different back then and we're just talking about the Dark Knight, right, the Dark Knight that Nolan took that shift in the movies to show you where you can take it a lot more seriously and this is a very serious movie, but it's still there. , but people perceive it the way they perceive the comic. books, different movies back then, do you think the version appears with the stories that were missing a year and that we are eliminated?

Do you think if that came out today in this culture, it would have gotten absolutely no difference because it doesn't matter? It's about the human element, yeah, and if you take that away, you become disconnected, people, it seems like the peak seems to me, the people who were already in love with spawn, are the ones who like the movie the most, there are people who just say what Hell, I

didn

't understand what was going on and how the devil just reached in and picked up the clown and did this and there was a you looked at, you know, Martin Sheen and a bombshell, you pulled out a bombshell that none of that was in the movie Before, it just occurred to the director, I mean, he said, well, I took a look at yours and then I turned it into this, you know, a biological bomb coming out of them like I don't understand what.

What the hell is going on before you said you already know that many times you tried to talk to the director and I said listen man, this is like trying to massage him all the time, the guy that Bob Shaye directed. who directed a new line, yeah, he loved the first cut and just gave the director carte blanche to improve it the way he wanted and he just took his eye off the ball mm-hm and people didn't know he learned his lesson. Yeah, and as a result of that other movie that was coming out and with a new line called Blade, yeah, everyone was all over that director because of what happened with the director and it spawned well, so I mean, I knew that director, and It was like Jesus.

Christ, what's why, of course, you know, because you know Bob was, you know, laid back, it was like you know it's a studio, but it was like I don't know, it's like a family, you know, laid back. atmosphere there and then they just trusted that the movie that the director was going to bring in to generate was going to be better, yeah, you know, we haven't seen that guy since, and that's, he's alive.