The talented comic book artist/writer is currently working out the financials of making the movie on a low budget, perhaps $10 million.
The movie will be an R-rated horror film, with Spawn serving as a sort of specter in the background, as opposed the rubber suited beat ’em up of the 1998 film.
Studios make successful horror films on minuscule budgets all the time, and it’s certainly an easier pill to swallow than a big budget superhero movie.
The director went on to say in the interview that he is not making the new Spawn for the superhero audience; it’s for horror fans.