Actor John Leguizamo says he'd love to reprise his role as Clown in the upcoming Spawn reboot film.
"Hell yeah, of course!" Leguizamo, who portrayed the villainous character in 1997's Spawn, said in an exclusive interview with CBR when asked if he'd like to return to the role. "I thought I did a knockout job as Clown. It was such a great opportunity and I wasn't going to mess it up. To be in Spawn, the first Black superhero comic book that brought back the whole comic book industry -- Hell yeah!"
The actor added that he loved being part of the movie, further describing it as "iconic." "...And I know that in the Latin and Black communities, that's an important movie to them and everybody has that DVD on their shelf," Leguizamo continued. "If they ask me, hell yeah, even if it's a small part like an Alfred Hitchcock cameo, that's cool too."
Fans of Todd McFarlane's Spawn comics will recall that Clown is an alter ego of The Violator, the oldest and most powerful of the five hell-born demons known as the Phlebiac Brothers. Clown is depicted in both the comics and in the 1997 film as a 3'10" overweight, balding man with creepy face paint and just four fingers on each of his hands.
The planned Spawn film -- which will mark McFarlane's directorial debut -- has been in the works at Blumhouse since 2017, with Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Renner once attached to play Spawn and Twitch Williams, respectively. While it's unclear if Foxx and Renner will still be involved, Blumhouse head Jason Blum confirmed over the summer, "Oh, yeah, we're going to make it. We're going to make it. It takes a while to get the script right, but we'll make it."
It was announced in early August that McFarlane had recruited Broken City screenwriter Brian Tucker to pen the script for the new Spawn film. which is being produced by Blum's company. McFarlane also revealed that, contrary to earlier plans, he wouldn't be contributing to the script himself.
"We were looking ideally for someone that could bring a voice to the character on two levels: I'm just a white, Canadian kid," McFarlane said. "I haven't lived the life of a man in America of someone with dark skin. We thought it was important to get the perspective of somebody who has, someone with that perspective coming in and adding a slightly different bent to what you and I, as comic book readers, already know as to what Spawn is about."
In addition to the new Spawn film, McFarlane is currently developing a television series centered on detectives Sam Burke and Twitch Williams, who were introduced in 1992's Spawn #1. That series is being developed by McFarlane, along with Paul Lee and Mark Roybal, who most recently worked on HBO Max's Mare of Easttown.