Spawn is the popular 1997 live action adaptation of the acclaimed independent comic book character created by Todd McFarlane, and brought to the screen by former Industrial Light and Magic effects wizard turned director Mark A.Z. Dippe (Jurassic Park). Government assassin Al Simmons (Michael Jai White, Black Dynamite) is double crossed by his sleazy boss (Martin Sheen, Apocalypse Now, The Dead Zone) and then murdered. But Al returns to earth, six years after his death. He is been re-born in the form of Spawn, a hell-born creature with supernatural powers. He made a deal with the devil to avenge his death and to lead Hell's army to destroy Heaven. But he has a change of heart, when his learns his death was a conspiracy, since it was planned by the evil Clown/Violator (John Leguizamo, Carlito's Way). His previous boss on earth is planning to unleash a virus upon the world. Now it is up to Spawn to make things right.