The next morning, McFarlane awoke to Jamie Foxx’s most recent interview in the Off Script series, a collection of interviews Foxx has been doing with different actors as part of a video series commissioned by vodka producer Grey Goose.
As luck would have it, this most recent video in the series included Jamie Foxx speaking with one Jeremy Renner.
It seems that Todd McFarlane, the creator of the Spawn character who will also direct the upcoming movie starring Jamie Foxx in the title role, was interested in bringing Renner on board the film in the role of Detective Maximilian Steven Percival “Twitch” Williams III and had gone to meet with him about taking the part.