New 'Spawn' movie in the works

Film producer Jason Blum is teaming up with comic book creator

Todd McFarlane

to develop a new movie based on the latter's creation '

Spawn

'.

McFarlane has written the first draft of the script and is set to direct the project. 'Spawn' was adapted into a 1997 New Line horror-action movie that starred Michael Jai White.

The comic told of a black-ops agent who is betrayed and killed, his soul sent to hell for all the innocents he killed. While there, he makes a deal with a demon who allows him to return to the earthly plane and his wife.