In some hot news first broken by deadline, Jeremy Renner will be starring alongside Jamie Foxx in Spawn, the long awaited reboot of Todd McFarlane's brutal comic from the 90's. Spawn will be a Bloomhouse film, which is great considering their horror pedigree, and with McFarlane himself penning the script, this one is looking more and more legit. Foxx will take on the titular role of Spawn, who, in his human life, is Al Simmons, a member of a CIA black ops team. After being screwed by his employer and sent to hell for a life of violence and bloodshed, he sells his soul to the devil in return for the chance to see his wife again, and is promptly screwed over by the lord of darkness, who fulfills his end of the deal by turning him into a hellspawn and sending him back to earth... years later, just in time to see his oldest buddy happily married to Simmons' wife. Also, when he takes his mask off, he's a burned up freak, so reuniting with his old lady is kind of out.
But enough about that, let's talk Jeremy Renner. Renner will play one half of the series' cop duo, Sam & Twitch, with Renner playing the latter. Twitch is a thin, hardworking cop who often has to deal with the carnage that Spawn metes out, and in the book, he actually takes down one of Spawn's foe's with a single, well placed bullet. A crack shot and one of the few honest cops in the neighborhood, he is the calm to his partner Sam's fury.
Jason Blum had this to say about Renner's selction: “Jeremy is the ideal choice for Twitch Williams. He radiates honesty, intelligence and a hard-working, everyman charisma, the same qualities that make Twitch such a compelling character.”
This will be Renner's second go around in a superhero universe, and may be a bit better than his previous role as Hawkeye, who Renner was notoriously disappointed with, due to poorly fleshed out character arcs and little screen time.
Spawn doesn't have a release date yet, and McFarlane says his next step will be to to lock down a distributor for financing the R rated film.
