Spidey reboot

[Raph's Girl]

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

Webb previously directed music videos, including Green Day's "21 Guns" and The All-American Rejects' "Move Along."

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

[The Stryker]

Anybody but Raimi.

[Mecha Cow]

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.

[Brodie]

Originally Posted by Mecha Cow

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.

[Spitfire]

Well there goes that.

[Bry]

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.

[Candy Kappa]

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

[GK Punk]

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

[Brodie]

Originally Posted by Spitfire

Well there goes that.

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

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

[ZariusTwo]

[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

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

[norinrad2]

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.

[ooglafina]

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.

[The Stryker]

Originally Posted by ooglafina

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.

[Voltron]

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

[Koi]

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.

[ZariusTwo]

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

[Jester]

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

I'm just saying...

Spoiler:

Ang's Hulk was released in 2003. The reboot came 5 years later in 2008.
Spidey 3 was released in 2007. Tack on 5 years and you get...2012.

[Spitfire]

Originally Posted by Jester

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

I'm just saying...

Spoiler:

Ang's Hulk was released in 2003. The reboot came 5 years later in 2008.
Spidey 3 was released in 2007. Tack on 5 years and you get...2012.

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.

[Barkworm]

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.

[kev trashcan]

i hate the idea..