Spawn - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Spawn or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Spawn

[sandra]

Post-production work on the special effects was occurring as late as July 1997, merely weeks before the film's release.

[lynn]

The Devil in this film calls himself Malebolgia. This is a name used by Dante in The Divine Comedy, however, it refers to a place rather than an individual. In Dante's work, the Malebolgia were the Infernal Pits, a particular place located in the seventh circle of Hell where the damned were buried, head down, in pits filled with insects.

[tammy]

During filming, New Line Cinema was growing more confident and excited over the film's progress that they added another $20 million to the budget, which equaled to $40 million.

[riley]

This film is the first time that Martin Sheen had starred in a comic book movie. The second comic book movie that Sheen starred in is The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).

[francisco]

According to Michael Jai White, the first cut of the film was more serious, character-driven, and had much fewer effects, when New Line Cinema allowed Mark A.Z. Dippé more creative control more action set pieces, effects sequences, and humor were added in addition to giving it a much faster pace. A lot of the time during re-shoots White had no idea what was going on.

[nina]

Michael Jai White turned down the chance to play Jax in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), a another New Line Cinema film released that same year to do Spawn instead.

[richard]

Alex Proyas was originally going to direct but pulled out of the project to work on Dark City (1998).

[alyssa]

As of 2018, the only feature by Mark A.Z. Dippé to be released theatrically.

[michele]

In one scene, Clown says "I'm not the Vindicator or the Victimizer or the Vaporizer or the Vibrator! I'm...The Violator!". In the Spawn comics there are five Phlebiac Brothers, which are denizens of Hell called Violator, Vandalizer, Vaporizer, Vindicator and Vacillator.

[violet]

This film is the first time that Michael Jai White had starred in a comic book movie. The second comic book movie that White had starred in is The Dark Knight (2008).

[cameron]

The distinctive black cigarettes Jason Wynn smokes are Sampoerna Xtra clove cigarettes. They are identifiable by the gold band above the filter.

[lynn]

After accepting the role of Wynn, Martin Sheen was having dinner with his grandson, who was delighted to find out that he'd been cast in a Spawn film.

[gerald]

The heavy metal band Iced Earth, which has made an album based on the comic Spawn, were offered the opportunity to be on the soundtrack. They turned it down, because they thought there was too much techno music on it.

[ray]

Since Clown/Violator is about 4 feet in his "human" form, John Leguizamo had to squat down in all of his scenes.

[miriam]

Released the same year as the critically acclaimed HBO animated series premiered.

[frances]

John Leguizamo revealed in a interview, one day while he was shooting he had to go to the restroom very badly. However it took almost an hour to get out of the suit he was wearing. Leguizamo wound up reliving himself while in the suit by accident due to it taking so long to get the suit off.

[liam]

John Leguizamo described wearing the fatsuit as "Like a penis wearing a condom".