Spidey reboot
 

Marc Webb (Hahahahaha....punny) has been set to direct the spidey reboot.

:ohwell:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100120/...ilm_spider_man

Anybody but Raimi.

He also directed this movie called "(500) Days of Summer," which I hear is pretty decent. Not as noteworthy as a Green Day video, but you know.

Hahahahaha. <3

Yeah, that Golden Globe nominated film ain't nothin' compared to the music videos.

I loved 500 Days of Summer, and this already makes the new Spidey flick seem to be moving in a more positive direction.

Well there goes that.

I haven't had a chance to see "500 Days of Summer" yet, but everything I've heard about it is very positive.

I'm actually pretty excited about the reboot. I enjoyed the Raimi movies (well, mostly the first two), but a starting-from-scratch take on the series following Peter as a high-school student, inspired by the "Ultimate Spider-Man" comics and the "Spectacular Spider-Man" animated series, could be really excellent.

The only major problem I have with this is that they'll likely recast J. Jonah Jameson, when nobody will be able to do it as well as J.K. Simmons.

Simmons was born to play JJ
I might be a bad person, but every time I saw Gwen in spider-man 3 I thought "shouldn't you be dead" It was just weird introducing her after gobby's death, thought he really didn't die in the comics

The whole Gobby is/isn't dead thing was such a cluster **** in the comics to be honest.

Just an FYI to everyone else....This above statement is wrong.

Anything is better than the ****-Trilogy.

Depending on which continuity you follow, he's certaingly dead now (A good few count the Spider-Girl timeline as the only "definitive" one now), plus his ghost got it's ass kicked into oblivion by Aunt May's spirit for good measure (Tom DeFalco on drugs=Win)

The original story shouldnt be followed, as Spidey grows far more with everyone intact Archie-style.

I prefer the USM story more, at least as far as a new direction for the movies go, where Gwen hangs around (though the way Peter gets with her is a little...ackward, because they like each other in a sibling way), and everyone piles up on each other.

Hell I'd never kill off Uncle Ben

Personally I think it's great news to see a reboot in the works. I'm a huge Spidey fan & would love to see a new vision brought to the screen, & I seriously hope they do an excellent job. Raimi & Maquire's Spidey was good but personally I wouldn't mind seeing another take on the mythology.

It feels too soon to me to reboot a movie franchise that's only 10 years old. It just feels wrong. A forth movie in a big budget series is pushing it, unless you're George Lucas and have unlimited money and power. The energy wears down and the narrative becomes too burdened to tell a clear story by that point. But it feels like they should at least honor the first three and give them some time to die away in the minds of the public first before they jump right into a new series.

Those pieces of sh*t don't deserve any kind of honor.

Stryker and Brodie speak for me on all things in this thread.

A reboot? That is a tad.... soon? I wouldn't mind to see a new view point especially after the last two Spidermans (The first one was mediocre, not bad.)

And gosh I hated Peter Parker in the last few movies I could rant many a page about that boy in those movies. Mother functional, he made me mad.

The last three movies really don't age well, I think they were a pleb's guide to Spidey, and got the characters completly wrong

How many years were there between Ang Lee's Hulk and the Hulk reboot?

I'm just saying...

You make a good point Jester but Hulk was a complete failure. It made barely enough profit to cover it's cost to make. They couldn't do a sequel so they just waited 5 years for the movie to be forgotten about and then tried again. The new movie didn't do that well either.

With Spider-man it's funny to see a re-boot like this as the film series has been a constant financial success. Spider-man 3 is 15th highest grossing film of all time and 1 and 2 are right behind it in the 22nd and 29th spots. 1 and 3 are just shy of a billion a pop. The films are raking in 8 times what they cost to make in some cases.

The only reason they kicked Rami off the project and went for a reboot is they want some new director that hasn't done a lot that they can push around. Enter independent music video/one film under his belt guy who the big wigs can tell what to do. They get that independent style they want but they can control how far it goes. Someone like Rami wants too much control over artistic vision and will argue with them on things like what characters will be in the film and how stuff is to be treated. Some new guy will be so excited to finally be doing a big budget Hollywood film he'll shut up and do what he's told.

I re-watched all three Spider-Man films a couple of months ago and I thought all of them were pretty entertaining (albeit in a trashy way). It's funny how everyone seems to hate them now because I can clearly remember a time when pretty much everyone seemed to be jizzing their pants about how "deep" Spider-Man 2 was. It wasn't.

i hate the idea..

I liked the first one; two was alright; the third was pretty underwhelming. I'm not sure why the first one gets hated on so much, but it wasn't perfect by any stretch.

Still feels too soon for a reboot, though. I'll end up seeing it when it comes out, regardless.

That still seems to be the general consensus; this is the only place where I've ever seen anyone speak ill about it.

Personally I think all three movies are trash, though I can at least somewhat understand why some people might enjoy the first two. The third, however, is a piece of sh*t by any objective standard.

I'm pretty sure this is not true at all. Venom was put in against Raimi's wishes.

Maguire has just been cast as Bilbo Baggins in Del Toro's The Hobbit. Interesting development.

That...has nothing to do with this thread.

I thought it may have relevance in the fact that his leaving the role of Peter Parker may have (or probably did) influence the reboot decision.

Ok, well that movie lost a slew of charisma.

link?
all I can find is that it's still just a rumor since Maguire haven't talked to Del Toro yet

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868219/news#ni1452836

There are two articles now. Use your own discretion as to the validity of the source.

IGN says Maguire is not in The Hobbit. F*ck that movie if he is.

I'm starting to doubt the validity of the statements too. One says that an anonymous source says that he was cast, and if that's true then he was just cast yesterday and the person blabbed before it was announced. They say their source is guardian.co.uk, but I didn't find anything. I do know that they are casting The Hobbit as we speak. So it isn't out of the question that he's been offered the role. Whether or not that's good is up for debate.

Yeah I sort of agree it's too soon to get a reboot but still I'd love to see another 'vision' on the character & his world.

try getting this out of your head; Maguire walk dancing from Spider-man 3 as a hobbit, pointing at random female fantasy characters

I think the reboot will work.

I enjoyed the Incredible Hulk far more than Ang Lee's Hulk.

And everyone knows how I felt about Tobey McGuire and the 3 Spidey flicks. Anything else they give us that doesn't have that douchebag or Raimi involved would be prime.

Anything is better then the apple-headed-no-facial-expression-not-funny-uninteresting Spider-Man that we got with mcGuire.

Plus, Ultimate Spider-Man was awesome.

When did this thread become the dumping ground for what MacGuire does next? F*ck him, Spidey's freed from him and Raimi, cause for celebration

The main reason I enjoyed the fact Raimi was tied to the Spider-man movies: Bruce Campbell. Enough said.

I'm not sure how I feel about this but I agree that it seems a little soon for a reboot. I enjoyed the first two Spidey movies, but the third was pretty disappointing. I'll keep an eye on how this is shaping up but knowing me I'll probably end up seeing it even if it sucks... :P

Today in my math class I heard that Zac Efron is playing spider man from one of my friends...I'd just find it a humorous performance if he did play. Way to go Disney...

After seeing 17 Again, I'd be fine with Efron being Peter.

I actually thought the same thing, if he's not too old. He is in his 20's.