It’s been almost 20 years since Spawn crossed over from comics to movies but while the character is one of the coolest to have ever been created, the film just came out in the wrong era. With the boom in comic book movie popularity and quality these days, old franchises left for dead are being revisited in the hopes they will flourish in a new era.

Spawn is one of those movies and creator Todd McFarlane is itching to get his best character captured on film the right way. Earlier last month we reported about Jamie Foxx’s interest in rebooting the Spawn franchise and McFarlane echoed those statements while speaking in Toronto this weekend.

Per an interview with The Gate:

“The thing that keeps slowing it down is that the negotiation I’ve done is I write, produce, direct, but I’ve got to push a lot of my other endeavors off to the side so I can just get tunnel vision on it. Everybody at my company is now going, ‘We’ve got to find Todd the time to finish all this.’”

Remaking Spawn, which was originally released in 1997 to horrid reviews, would be an epic do-over for McFarlane who himself thinks the 1997 film wasn’t what it could or should have been.

But studio pressure helped derail the picture and from the sounds of it, the studios are again sticking their fingers in McFarlane’s pie and holding up the process. That being said, CGI has come a long way since the first Spawn movie and audiences are much more receptive to darker comic stories being told.

A 2014 production start date would mean the film may come out in the jam packed summer of 2015 where it would go toe-to-toe with the likes of Star Wars, Jurassic Park 4, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Batman vs. Superman just to name a few. Adding Spawn to that docket would be one of the most amazing things to happen to comic book and movie fans alike, and it’s looking like that could be the case.