Todd McFarlane Developing ‘Sam and Twitch’ TV Show

The duo are known as the showrunners of Condor, the Epix adaptation of the 1975 film Three Days of the Condor, and they are also writing the upcoming Jennifer Lopez Netflix film The Cipher, an adaptation of Isabella Maldonado’s novel.

But McFarlane believes he is in a unique position to offer something with a track record built over decades and which has grown to include hundreds of characters and sold hundreds of millions of books.

McFarlane notes that Hollywood’s most successful shared universes — Marvel, DC and Star Wars — had the groundwork laid for them over decades by hundreds or even thousands of creators.

“Could there be a third or fourth big shared universe? Possibly.

Since 2017, he has been developing a Spawn feature with Blumhouse that would mark his directorial debut and would star Jamie Foxx as Spawn and Jeremy Renner as Twitch.

The comic creator notes that his partners on the Blumhouse Spawn movie are soon going to be seeking a studio partner on that movie.

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