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.

[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

[Spitfire]

Well there goes that.

[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.