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Spawn: Spawn Series
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Todd McFarlane, best known as the creator of Spawn and the founder of SPAWN.COM, is the creative force behind McFarlane Toys. The international award-winning company is one of America’s top action figure manufacturers with successful movie licensing tie-ins, including figures from the Oscar-winning animated feature film Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit (DreamWorks), Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (Warner Bros.), and the popular cult flick Napoleon Dynamite (Fox). Additionally, the company has acquired the action figure licenses for the Hanna-Barbera library and ABC’s hit series Lost. McFarlane Toys added a new dimension to its already expanding product line with the launch of McFarlane’s Pop Culture Masterworks which re-create iconic 3-D movie wall hangings using both traditional sculpting and the art of forced perspective. Releases include Jaws, Friday the 13th, Alien and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. makes official league-licensed figures for baseball, football, basketball and hockey within its Sports Picks(TM) line, as well as the Legends line in all four sports.
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Suture Girl -- Developed from the Gretchen Culver character in the incredibly popular "Spawn" comic book series, this action series features an extraordinary heroine. After being violently murdered by a serial killer, a beautiful former advertising executive is literally stitched back to life and imbued with special powers by a mysterious gypsy woman. Now, living amongst her new family in the gypsy community, Suture -- still curiously beautiful -- is a voice for the oppressed and a court of last resort, as she fearlessly fights evil with the help of a handsome crusading lawyer. Written by Alan McElroy ("Spawn," "Ecks vs. Sever"), the back-door pilot will be executive produced for SCI FI by Fireworks Entertainment and Edmonds Entertainment's CEO/President Tracey E. Edmonda, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, and Edmonds Entertainment's head of television Sheila Ducksworth. McFarlane will ... serve as a producer.
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The Spawn comic book series is explicitly religious. In fact, religious subjects are the central (or one of the central) themes of the series. Despite this, the religious affiliation of Spawn himself is difficult to categorize. The character has a key role in a fictional reality wherein Christian cosmology is rendered explicitly and literally real. But the series is in no way a vehicle for Christian proselytization. Rather, series creator Todd McFarlane has gone on the record stating that he does not believe in God.
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Spawn: Armageddon is set against the backdrop of a darker, near-future New York City environment, where Spawn is caught between the factions in the battle of Good vs. Evil. The intuitive controls allow players to maneuver their way through various interactive and destructible environments which include 25 missions with more than 60 sublevels, as Spawn struggles to break free of the controlling forces of Heaven and Hell. Based on the first 99 comic books in the Spawn series, Spawn: Armageddon features all of Spawns signature abilities including his vast arsenal of weapons, Hell powers, superhuman strength and his living, symbiotic costume.
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Spawn's popularity has since cooled and creators other than McFarlane have been responsible for the monthly series—a source of criticism as McFarlane and others left Marvel in the belief that creators should own and control their own characters. Still the monthly series continues, becoming, along with Savage Dragon, one of the two original Image titles still published.
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Spawn himself goes through a terrific series of tranformations, usually executed using CG animation. Various chains, hooks and knives appear on Spawn's body, all of which were match-moved with great care. The finest instance of match-moving is just as Spawn pulls his arm back to punch Wynn (Martin Sheen), and as his fist remains near his head, various spikes appear on his fist. In three long shots, with Michael Jai White's hand roving all over the frame, the knives actually appear as though they are attached to his fist.
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