Spectacular Spider-Man TV Series
 

Casting is up for the up coming new Spider-man animated series that'll premier on WB network in 2008.

Peter Parker/Spider-Man - Josh Keaton
Mary Jane Watson - Vanessa Marshall
Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin - Dwight Schultz
Otto Octavius/Dr. Octopus - Peter MacNicol
Eddie Brock Jr./ Venom - Benjamin Diskin
Harry Osborn - Mike Erwin
Gwen Stacy - Lacey Chabert
J. Jonah Jameson - Daran Norris
Uncle Ben Parker - Paul Eiding
Dr. Curt Conners - Dave Wittenberg
Flint Marko/Sandman - David Lodge
Max Dillon/Electro - Steve Staley
Quentin Beck/Mysterio - Steven Blum
Abner Jenkins/Beetle - Dave Wittenberg
Sergei Kravinoff/Kraven The Hunter - Jim Cummings
Fritz Von Meyer/Swarm - Jim Ward
Ebenezer Laughton/Scarecrow - Steven Blum
Herman Scholtz/Shocker - Brandon Molale
Donald Gill/Blizzard - Jason Marsden
Fred Myers/Boomerang - Quinton Flynn
Flash Thompson - Jack DeSena
Liz Allan - Colleen O'Shaughnessey
Aunt May Parker - Mary Jo Catlett
Betty Brant - Cricket Leigh
Robbie Robertson - Phil LaMarr
Adrian Toomes/Vulture - Jeff Bennett
Aleksei Sytsevich/Rhino - John DiMaggio
The Lizard - Dee Bradley Baker
Dimitri Smerdyakov/Chameleon - Glenn Shadix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spe...28TV_series%29

I like Steven Blum, wait Scarecrow? Why the hell is there a Scarecrow? There's one in Batman and Ghost Rider has one too but Spider-man? Ugh, ah why do I care I probably won't watch it anyways.

With so many characters this show better be 26 episodes. 13 episode seasons just dont cut it imo.

Steve Blum as Mysterio? That could work.
Phil Lamarr as Robbie seems like a no-brainer. He's, like, the "go to black guy" in animation, these days.
John DiMaggio is gonna rawk as Rhino. Love that guy's voice.
I wonder what kinda voice Jeff Bennet is gonna do for Vulture? If it's the young Vulture I'm hoping for something like Brooklyn from Gargoyles.
Jim Cummings as Kraven is gonna be super duper cheesy. I love Cummings' voice, don't get me wrong, but it alswyassounds sooooo cartoony and goofy.
Peter MacNicol as Doctor Octopus? Like, Ghostbusters II Janosz Peter MacNicol? I don't know what to think.

Regarding the Scarecrow comment, yeah, SPider-Man has one. But Im pretty sure its the same one as Ghost Rider.

Side thing:

Concept stuff...
http://i10.tinypic.com/4ldbsdy.jpg

Not crazy about Pete's hair.

Peter looks kinda like Ultimate Peter Parker.

MAD MURDOCH IS THE GOBLIN?

This is f*cking awesome.

I think 4Kids spoiled us with 26 TMNT episodes a season, and now we can't stand the dreaded (and cheap) 13 eps... But it WILL be 13, with multiple reruns over and over until we see the entire season.

Jim Cummings... I dunno... he's always kinda off in a more serious role. You can tell when he's having fun on something really wacky... like Darkwing Duck and Don Karnage. He's my top fave VA...

John Dimaggio... I would KILL to hear Rhino say "Bite my Shiney metal Ass!"

Dee Bradley Baker as the Lizard... somehow I can only think of his Aussie Numba 4 voice, his effeminant Fairly Oddparents background character voice, and his German Klaus voice.... But I can see up and coming VA talent when I see it. he's really making himself know the last few years.

That concept art isn't final, it was done by some guy who tried out for the job. The gig ended up going to someone else.

That concept art looks like a cross betwenn The Batman, Teen Titans, and Spider-Man Unlimited.

Hope the series is as good as it looks...I'm interested to see if they handle Venom as well as they they did in the '94 show.

HOLY SH*T!!! Sold.

There is no animation visuals that are similer to Unlimited

You really need to stop obsessing over that peice of crap.

I couldn't agree more. After seeing MacNicol on "Numbers" and "24", I'd like to see him in that role. It'd also be nice to hear Paul Eiding's Grandpa Max voice from Ben Parker.
Too bad I'm not all enthused from the art and the Kids WB! lineup having no originality in their lineup as well.

But "The Batman" has never used him, so apparently they let this series have him instead. I probably won't be watching either of them as well.

Why not?

The fourth season of The Batman was almost ten times superior to the first season of Justice Leauge AND JLU combined (by that I don't mean what you get on the JLU DVD), and Spider-Man is being handled by Greg Wiesman

That's a rather bold claim for a show that was SUPPOSED to be an awful reinvention of the property in order to tell toys.

The second and fourth seasons are genuinely superb and showing of the show's quality and potential. The toy commercial aspect was and is far from no longer a vocal point (as it ruined the first and third seasons), but at least the writing disguised it well enough when it could.

And it's not so much of a "bold" claim when half the DCAU writing team took over the show once Duane Capizzi left to write s*it on a sandwich.

The guy doing it is Cheeks from Deviant Art. He was finally able to tell people he got it.

PS, its neat to see Zarius all for The Batman in comparison to how he was when it first came out.

Well, according to Vicious, who is a close friend of Greg Weisman's and a big figure in the Gargoyle's fan community, that Wikipedia list is not to be trusted.

Ah well.

I was defending the second season when the third made me doubt they could keep it up, so it's not new.

Heck, you ask me to say Teen Titans was awesome, and it'll also depend on certain seasons. Three and five are not my favourate out of them either.

I don't care!

Didn't we all kind of see that coming when they mentioned the high school angle?
It probably came down to him and Kevin Michale Richardson. Who'd probably make an interesting Robbie actually.
Hell yeah.
Dosen't he kind of sound the same in everything he does?
If he's playing it serious it'll probably be serious. I always thought the guy struggled having to do an accent.
It's gotta better than Efrem Zimbalist.

All in all, I'm okay with the talent we're getting, although I'm not expecting much out of Venom's drooly sived voice and I'll need to hear Cummings and Flyn's performances to judge if there good ideas. Kinda disapointed Rino Romano isn't the staring role here, but The Batman's doing pretty good and I liked MUA's Human Torch.
Yow...
When he's great, he's great like anyone else. I'm not too enthusiastic about his Russian though. If that's the way their going to play Kraven.
Heh. I'm still waiting for his casting as Deadpool.
Say that in his bowl! So, yeah, apart form Klaus and the stuff on that list, what else has he been up to? Last I remember hearing him was Nightcrawler.
Not really. Teen Titans maybe...the promo has a kinda on screen comic book feel to it, so maybe. Unlimited's visuals would have kicked ass with a different colour pallet and less futuristic alternate dimension animal stuff. Didn’t help that a lot of it took place in an almost constant electronic lightshow. I did like the comic book page feel to that and stuff like the Batman. Hope they give us those kind of inked in backgrounds.
Three episodes where he actually shows up? I’d honestly only do him once and here’s hoping to God, Jesus and St Peter Carnage comes nowhere near this.
I'm not really going to bother.

Aka "I have no opinion of my own, so I'll lambast it without giving it a chance like all the other "I want the 90s back" sheep humpers"

Sure, Kids WB! can't come up with anything anymore! I loved them back then but with all this low quality and/or unoriginal crap over the last year or so, not anymore.

http://enewsi.com/news.php?catid=194&itemid=11446

Trailer for the series

THAT...
LOOKS...
AWESOME.:o :o :o

The music and animation style reminds me of The Batman

Looks pretty good....I'll definatly watch the pilot ot see if I'll like it even further. But then again it's Greig Weisman so it'll no doubt rock. :D

If it has alot of focus on fighting I think it will be a good show in my book.

"One hyphenated word."

I love that man.

I really hate how this animation style is becoming a trend. Ick.

I liked it. As bouncey and fast as a Spidey show should be.

Yeah, and for once, this is a show that FITS that style, unlike The Batman.

The Batman never set it's self up to be BTAS. We had BTAS, and beleive me I'm as ****ing thankful as the next guy and his mother, but this entire "TOO KIDDY, OMGZ!" **** needs to stop. The Batman's style fits perfeclty well for what the show is meant to be: a younger yet modern Batman in a silver age world. It's come a long way from the toy comercial that was the first season and even then they did what they set out to do, establishing how Bruce adapted to his role as Batman and the super freaks coming out of the woodwork. All this "Too campy, too kiddy" **** would actually have a case if Batman himself acted that way. There's nothing wrong with an all ages attempt and just actually having some fun, especially since I can have "Brooding dark emo crazy killer child abusing" Batman any day of the week.

No, what's becoming a "trend" is bashing this style of animation.

And really, saying The Batman does'nt fit "the style" is idiotic, The Batman vs Dracula is ten times more graphic than even the most disturbing portions of Mask of the Phantasm and ROTJ combined.

Again, The Batman gets it's knocks when it earns it, but when the writers get it right, it's right up there with the fabled DCAU, which itself has plenty of flaws that it's die-hard sheep will never acknowledge

Saying I don't like it is hardly 'bashing'. And, I really haven't seen anyone else saying that they don't like or outright ridiculing it (the meaning of the term 'bashing'). Care to provide some evidence or should I assume you're just amplifying the statements of others to dupe those more impressionable than yourself into taking your side? What I'd like to know is if it's ever worked that way for you before.

I dug it, a lot. And that's deffinately Cheeks' Spider-Man design:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29377162/


Also, he was on the SDCC Spectacular Spider-Man panel. Neeeeet.

And I guess he did the redesigns of Speed Racer for that new toon that came and went?

That was great. It looks like he's gonna keep the typical Spider-Man wit. I love it.

Yeah, looking good.

Ok... Who's idea was it for Doc Conners to have a cyborg arm? Will Lizard also be sporting the cyborg arm?? That's just nutty! :ohwell: