Spiderman Reboot??

[EddieH]

What are your thoughts on this?
I didn't see it coming
http://www.superherohype.com/news/spider-mannews.php?id=8976

[krisvahl]

I'm all for it. I hated the last Spiderman movie and I can't stand Tobey Maguire. Most likely it's gonna be crap but it's better than the alternative.

[Captain Genius]

agreed

Tobey whats his name sucked

how about a spider-man film that's fun this time and not one giant drama queen session.

with a 16 year old that's charasmatic and has a mouth that moves when he talks.

and a freaking upbeat score, no danny elfman shit and no choirs singing when spidey shows up.

fuck all 3 of those movies.

[EddieH]

LOL Hopefully they'll get a Hotter Mary Jane :p

[Doh]

If they use less CGI this time around, I'm in!

Humor wouldn't hurt, either.

[Captain Genius]

Yes.
Spidey needs to be a big time shit talker.

[jharker]

From Entertainment Weekly; "Next spider=man will be a gritty and contemporary reboot"



This whole affair sounds like a disaster 'caused by a studio who's obsessed with reaching a target date.

I'm not a fan of the first three films either, but there's plenty of stuff in there that works.
I'd prefer they'd get two new leads and a director with new ideas, but who's still respectful to what's already established.

It would be a waste to get rid of the cast for the Bugle staff, or Dylan Baker as Dr. Connors, just because they couldn't get a sequel work with the original director.

This whole "reboot in 2012" probably won't last, anyway. It's reminding me too much of the time when Warner Brothers just had no idea what to do with Batman and Superman.
How long and how many false starts did it take before we actually got a new Batman and Superman movie?

I wouldn't be surprised if the same happens to Spidey and that we won't see another Spidey movie until the end of this decade. Maybe it won't even be made by Sony anymore by that time.

[Scripe]

What? Is it going to be another origin film? Why not just re-cast and pick up from
there?

It's not like part 3 destroyed everything that came before it. I really loved the first two
films and enjoyed a few things from part 3.

I'm sure if it turns out to be awesome I'll be relieved but a reboot isn't something I've
been hoping for. Hell, it wasn't even on my radar.

[ben c]

agreed

Tobey whats his name sucked

how about a spider-man film that's fun this time and not one giant drama queen session.

with a 16 year old that's charasmatic and has a mouth that moves when he talks.

and a freaking upbeat score, no danny elfman shit and no choirs singing when spidey shows up.

fuck all 3 of those movies.

mmm... i think i have to go with this answer.

[krisvahl]

I reckon drop the real actors and go all Avatar on it's ass. I'd love the see a 3d animated Marvel or DC movie done with a decent budget. Real actors playing spandexed heroes is always going to be lame no matter how much you reboot their stories.

[Benjamin]

well I think its the right change. From the little snippets raimi was saying, it seemed to be going the spiderman 3 route. The vulture I think is all wrong. The other villains worked better or were more digestable cause of the scientific accident aspect... the vulture is pretty supernatural.

And yeah, I am with you all. it broke my heart that spiderman wasn't peter parker unleashed. he wasn't freed of the chains of his social self like he was supposed to be. He barely cracked a joke or said anything at all. Looking back (and having watched them not long ago) it donned on me that the raimi spiderman was like... a stunt double. or a substitution. It wasn't tobey maguire's peter parker in a spiderman suit... it was like a MAN. if that makes sense. Like one part of the movie stopped and the other part came in. the old... switcheroo.

just saying there was a pretty big disconnect from peter and the rest of the movie once "spiderman" appeared. But not in a poetic "spiderman is everything peter parker can't be" way... in a cosmetic transplant kind of way.

I thought the AICN director suggestion of neill blomkamp was spot on.

[She-Thing]

Hah, I kind of agree, although I'm happy with the 90's cartoons- it had everything, cheesy dialogues (both serious and funny), snappy jokes, secret wars, etc. "How am I going to beat a man with a fishbowl on his head?" Always cracked me up.

I don't know- the Fantastic Four kind of makes me happy with its cheesy stuff, although very few people enjoyed both movies... imagine how the public would react towards Spiderman...



Anyway, as long as the Lizard's in it and has a story which makes sense then I'm fine with the reboot.

[HellboyOne]

They're gonna have to find a nerd of equal stature to Sam Raimi to make it work. I have a feeling the next guy won't be as faithful to the character...especially with all this talk of "gritty". What is this, 1986? Stupid, successful Batman products keep fucking up everything that comes after them.

[Kelly Tindall]

I'm all for it. I think Spider-Man 2 is absolutely perfect and the other two are pretty decent, but Tobey Maguire is nearly forty and there's nowhere to go for the character except pointless relationship drama. Should have married them off at the end of the third movie and rebooted it from there.

[EddieH]

How do you get better then J.K. Simmons version of J. Jonah Jameson, Willem Dafoes Goblin or Alfred Molina's Doc Ock?
I Loved those characters from Sam Raimis Spiderman movies.
I also liked his version of the Daily Bugle.