{"id":43839,"date":"2018-05-29T16:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T20:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=43839"},"modified":"2018-05-29T16:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T20:56:23","slug":"jamie-foxx-cast-as-lead-in-spawn-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/29\/jamie-foxx-cast-as-lead-in-spawn-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Foxx Cast As Lead In SPAWN Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43841\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/SPAWN-Jamie-and-Todd-678x431.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"431\" \/>Just when you thought all the big comic book movie news would come from Disney or Warner Brothers, along comes <strong>Spawn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/05\/spawn-jamie-foxx-todd-mcfarlane-jason-blum-blumhouse-movie-1202399090\/\">Deadline<\/a> has the exclusive that Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx has signed on to play Spawn in the upcoming reboot film. The character&#8217;s creator, Todd McFarlane, who will also direct the film, also broke the news on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fliketoddmcfarlane%2Fposts%2F1927473067296766&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"792\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Spawn is an ex-CIA mercenary who was set up by a former partner and killed in a fiery accident. His soul goes to hell and is given the opportunity to return to Earth on one condition&#8211;he becomes a soul collector for Hell, returning the condemned that escaped to Earth back to Hell. He returns to Earth months later and begrudgingly fulfills his agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The comic was adapted to screen once before, back in 1997 with Michael Jai White in the lead role. That film was a modest success, but McFarlane was promising to deliver a hard R-Rated version to theaters for a while now.<\/p>\n<p>The film is at Blumhouse and promises to be a gritty, low-budget (somewhere in the $10-12 million range) feature that will hew closer to the feel of the comic than the original does.<\/p>\n<p>No word on a release date as of yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Foxx goes from playing the villain Electro to playing the antihero SPAWN for creator\/director Todd McFarlane.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/29\/jamie-foxx-cast-as-lead-in-spawn-reboot\/\" title=\"Jamie Foxx Cast As Lead In SPAWN Reboot\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[9759,784,2097,5880,5882],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"category-news","9":"tag-blumhouse","10":"tag-jamie-foxx","11":"tag-michael-jai-white","12":"tag-spawn","13":"tag-todd-mcfarlane"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43839"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=43839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}