Have you been hoping for a Spawn remake? If so, listen up, because some key character news has been released….specifically, the fact that Spawn won’t actually be the leading character of the remake.

Creator Todd McFarlane recently revealed in an interview with Comicbook.com that the honor of main character will actually go to Detective Maximilian “Twitch” Williams, with Spawn coming in at a close second.

“There’s two big roles in the script. There’s obviously sort of Spawn himself, although in a weird way it’s not the biggest role, and then there’s the cop,” says McFarlane. “The cop is this character Twitch who’s been there since issue #1… I sort of refer to him as my sheriff Brody, who is the sheriff in the Jaws movie. Although it was called Jaws, Jaws didn’t really talk a lot in his movie, right? He just kind of showed up at the opportune time to make the movie worthwhile.”

The goal, according to McFarlane, is to let Spawn take a backseat so that the viewer can see how average, every day humans react to his presence.

Twitch is a New York cop in a world where, unlike some of the more mainstream superhero films, superheroes are definitely not a common occurrence. The character was originally slated to get his own spin off TV show with Kevin Smith at the helm in 1999 from BBC America, but there has been no word on the project since, or if the film remake has any impact on it.

Though there are no firm dates for the film, it was announced at last year’s San Diego Comic Con, and there has been confirmation that McFarlane is joining up with Jason Blum and Blumhouse Productions to create the remake. McFarlane will be writing the first draft of the screenplay and will direct as well.