Jamie Foxx Is Officially Starring In Todd McFarlane’s Spawn Movie

It looks like its final. Todd McFarlane and Blumhouse Production's Spawn live-action movie has Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx as its lead star.

According to Deadline, Django Unchained actor Jamie Fox has signed on to Spawn, the film which marks comic book writer McFarlane's directorial debut. Foxx is set to play the lead character Spawn.

For those who aren't familiar with the antihero, Spawn is a character who is first introduced in the comics as Al Simmons, a member of a CIA black ops team. Al is betrayed twice – once by his team who murders him and sets his corpse on fire, and then twice when he is betrayed in Hell.

There, Simmons is offered the chance to become a Hellspawn warrior so that he could see his wife again. However, when he returns to the human world, Simmons finds that five years have passed and that he had been transformed into Spawn, a demonic creature with very little memory of his past life. Spawn also discovers that his wife had moved on and married his best friend. Angrier than ever, Spawn goes on to kill off the "scum of the city in good and evil battles that encompass earth, heaven, and hell."

McFarlane always had Foxx in mind when he started working on the script – earlier this month McFarlane revealed that he had offered the actor the lead role and that he and number of people on set took pay cuts just so they could afford better effects and actors for the film.

Spawn doesn't have a release date yet but we'll let everyone know as soon as we get word.

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