"Spawn" reboot to have Academy Award winning actor in main role

     The question is who?
     I don't think 1997's Spawn was as bad as everyone says it was but then again I've only seen it once.  The only significant thing I remember about the movie, besides Michael Jai White's performance, is a point where he says the line, "I'm not going to do Hell's dirty work anymore!" and my friend Joe next to me says, "I want to dance!"  Cracked the whole theater up.
     "MTV Geek," "Bleeding Cool," and creator Todd McFarlane report that McFarlane has an Academy Award winning actor waiting in the wings as soon as a script is completed.  McFarlane freely admits that the script writing process is going slow.  He says he's writing "a page here and a page there" so who knows when we will actually get the chain wielding Hell denizen back on the big screen.
     McFarlane won't say who the actor is but he says the person phones every three weeks or so asking where the script is.  Spawn is in fact a black man so that narrows down the choices.  The best bet is probably Jamie Foxx, since he's the closest in age to the character.  Denzel Washington is too old and I don't think would go with the comic book genre.  Also Cuba Gooding Junior has kind of become irrelevant so I'm not sure he'd have a lot of appeal.
      For those of you who don't know, the Spawn comic book revolves around a special forces assassin who is betrayed and murdered and then sent to Hell.  In order to see his wife again he makes a deal with the devil to lead the devil's army of demons on Earth.  However, once he returns to Earth he starts to rebel.
     Spawn actually appeared on HBO in the 1990s as an animated feature that was awesome.  Let's just hope the next film (if it happens) is just as good.