Spider-Man 4 swinging into theaters May 2011? No, Never. Raimi out, reboot time

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Bowielee

Bowielee

Calleja said:
Arghhh...not another origin movie, please! Do it like the Hulk reboot, show us the "origin" in the intro credits and then just get on with it.

The Hulk reboot is the only reason I'm not really THAT worried about this, but that press release didn't help at all.
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The problem is that the Hulk reboot was actually produced by Marvel, Spider-man is still in the hands of Sony, movie rights-wise.

If they were able to steamroll over Rami for the craptacular Venom stuff in SM3, I have a feeling they're going to grind these new writers into paste until the story is just terrible.
 
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Wyrminarrd

Calleja said:
Arghhh...not another origin movie, please! Do it like the Hulk reboot, show us the "origin" in the intro credits and then just get on with it.

The Hulk reboot is the only reason I'm not really THAT worried about this, but that press release didn't help at all.
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I was thinking the exact same thing, the way that they simply showed highlights of the Hulk being created in "The Incredible Hulk" should be used as a model for the Spider-Man reboot. I have no interest in seeing the origin story being retold, especially since it was done perfectly in the first one.
 
filmfanatic

filmfanatic

Calleja said:
We may get mechanical web-shooters this time... hmm
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I've been thinking about the web-shooter thing and what about a happy medium between organic and mechanical? To clarify, I mean like he receives the organic webbing from the bite, but he invents the shooters to guide and control it properly.
 
filmfanatic

filmfanatic

Shannow said:
Organic webshooters worked fine for the big screen.
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Yeah, organic does work fine. I was just thinking of the mechanical shooter as another element to differentiate from Raimi's films. That said, I would still be okay with organic web-shooters.

A few other elements I'd want to see:
1. Show Spider-Man's origin in the opening credits.
2. Have Spider-Man fire off more quips during battles.
3. Have Gwen Stacy as Peter Parker's first girl.

As for villains, I'm not sure. The only certainty is that I'd want to see villains in the first film that we haven't seen yet.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

This makes me hopeful for another Spider-man. I like Raimi, but he was the wrong choice for Spidey, and Tobey and Dunst suck. J.K. Simmons and Bruce Campbell were the best part of the movies.

I don't want to see another origin, but I am behind another reboot. Especially one that doesn't feature Spidey frickin crying, for Pete's sake!! Bring on the Lizard!
 
ElJuski

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Why would that cause them to sell anything? That guy is a star and brings in tween bank. There's a demographic that's gonna shell out cash money just to see "R Pattz" no matter what he's in or doing.
 
ElJuski

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For some reason I doubt it will, based on "R. Pattz" alone. But, I could be wrong. Regardless of how much I hypothetically enjoy the guy--I don't, at all--he still is a good bet, financially.
 
Espy

Espy

From AICN:
According to Deadline Hollywood's Michael Fleming, Sony has a shortlist of directors they're considering for their SPIDER-MAN reboot. They are...

James Cameron
David Fincher
Wes Anderson
Marc Webb

Now, since Sony just parted ways with an established A-list filmmaker due to extreme creative differences, which of these four fellas do you think is closest to landing the gig?

On one hand, I want nothing more than to see Wes Anderson's version of a $200 million superhero tentpole, but I live in the real world and understand that would never happen. So it appears that (500) DAYS OF SUMMER director Marc Webb has the inside track in the SPIDER-MAN derby - and this is probably because the other three have either flat-out declined or were never seriously offered the job in the first place. In any event, Webb is a safe, solid choice; his last film was a studio-slick indie, and he'll probably be able to handle the romantic travails of high-school-age Peter Parker with tremendous sensitivity. Will he be able to manage movie star egos? I don't know. Will there be movie star egos? Sony has rebooted this franchise so abruptly (and is evidently keen to rush into production to hit a 2012 release date), it could be that they'll settle for up-and-comers and maybe one sorta big name for the villain.

It's all speculation at this point. All we've got to go on right now is that it'll be 3-D and that the very talented Jamie Vanderbilt (ZODIAC) is writing the script.
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Found this on short notice. If they could somehow actually make him sound like this during the movie fighting bad guys that would be a plus
 
Calleja

Calleja

....Spidey wooing MJ with actual Spider rituals which sound completely made up.




I threw up in my mouth a little... but it became too much to hold in so I had to open my mouth and now it's all over my keyboard. Thanks for the link, vagoo.
 
fade

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I've wondered quite often what it would be like to have a good indy director do a superhero film. Probably not spidey, because I don't think he's good for it. I bet Superman would rock in the hands of an indy house, though.
 
Calleja

Calleja

If Michael Bay directs the reboot, Spidey's webs will be made of explosive chord. It'd be like "Thwi-BANG!" for 2 hours.
 
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Philosopher B.

Calleja said:
If Michael Bay directs the reboot, Spidey's webs will be made of explosive chord. It'd be like "Thwi-BANG!" for 2 hours.
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Shia LaBeouf could play Spiderman.

'No Dock Ock ... nononononoNO!"
 
Steve

Steve

Okay, Sony, here's some free advise. Start the movie with McGuire's Peter Parker at the hospital wanting to save his dying aunt when Mephisto appears and offers him a chance to start over. Then roll back to high school and have Norman Osborn's Green Goblin with the ending "Peter, I AM YOUR FATHER." I am a genius.
Honestly, I'm glad they are rebooting the series. Someone posted a link earlier in this thread that summed up Raimi's Spider Man as campy. That was something I could never get past in the movies. And I agree they shouldn't have pushed him through high school so fast. The cartoon series is well written and has great build up. Hopefully Sony will take some cues from that and get a solid storyline going. I was not looking forward to Spiderman 4 but am looking forward to the reboot.
And for the record I loved Spiderman 2 and was so excited for 3 to come out I took the day off work and was going to hit the first showing. Not being able to wait until 10 am I decided to download the movie and just watch a few minutes that morning to get my fix. Thank god I did because I sat and watched in horror at how bad the movie was. It was all I could do to finish it on my computer and I still felt ripped off. It was so tramatic I ended up thinking Transformers was a great movie.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Wait did you just say that Spider-Man SHOULDN'T be campy? :facepalm:

I mean, you HAVE picked up a Spider-Man comic in the past 10yrs right?
 
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