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Spider-Man To Be Rebooted Without Original Cast or Director
Oh dear... I wonder how that's going to work out...
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/01/11/sam-raimi-tobey-maguire-out-of-spider-man-4-sony-confirms/
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/01/11/sam-raimi-tobey-maguire-out-of-spider-man-4-sony-confirms/
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There are so many ideas, so many cartoon characters, that have never appeared in film they could choose to focus on, but uninventive Hollywood would prefer to repeat the same stories again and again. (sighs)
Raimi, Maguire et al had obviously settled into a comfortable little rut, and could have carried on churning out variations on the same riff for years.
Fair play to him for rebooting the franchise, but he has had his time - let someone else step in and give it a go.
Me...I would love to see someone go the Battlestar Galactica-style remake route, and really shake things up...something really dark.
God, if they had done that with the Venom saga we could have had something really special.
but how much you wanna bet they'll cast taylor lautner as peter parker!
Perhaps Columbia's deal with Marvel is coming to an end and Sony wants to squeeze more cash out of the franchise before it (potentially) reverts to Disney/Touchstone, in which case claims that the 'reboot' is due to Raimi being unable to deliver a film before a 2011 deadline may be genuine.
Or perhaps the newly "Disney-fied" Marvel are unhappy with the direction of the franchise under Raimi and want a more straightforward "action-boy" crimefighting Spidey with a lighter tone and less angst, like the Joel Schumacher version of Batman instead of the Tim Burton version.
But then Part 3 was absolutely god-awful so maybe it will actually turn out to be a good idea.
Nah, the film rights are seperate it seems.
That's why the Christopher Nolan reboot exists, right? :rolleyes:
Raimi's first 2 versions of Spider-man are brilliant, the sequel in particular. It had the right balance of PP/Sm conflicts. And it was well known that Raimi never wanted to do the Venom story but was pressured into it by the idiot that is Avi Arad. So what do we have now, another reboot and guess what... Arad's still on board as a producer, mouthing off. Pillock. :mad:
This I fear is very close to the truth. Expect comedy noises, (ie 60s Batman TV series) and cheesy script from now on. :mad::mad:
Let's hope the re-boot pays off
Reboot seems to be the new remake in hollywood at the moment.
The writing was on the wall once he was forced to shoe horn Venom into his Ditko inspired universe.
Unfortunately this re-boot will probably be more of the same Venom inspired crap.
Re-booting Spider-Man which was only re-booted about 8 years ago seems a crazy idea to me.
Bet he's crying on the inside though.
The series can still work without Raimi if they get the right director and decent scriptwriters as the character/s were established long before the films.
Just as long as the studio doesn't think combining Spiderman and 3D is enough to pull in punters regardless of the film itself.
I have never been a fan of Toby Mcguire, the reboot of the hulk i thought was a great success (compared to Lee's version anyway), so bring it on I say!!
Stan Lee better pull his finger out a create more filmable super heroes, otherwise fantastic four, daredevil, ghostrider will all be rebooted, now we wouldnt want that, would we??
Instead of rebooting the same old franchises again and again, why not give some lesser known superheroes some attention?
Anything other than this groundhog day of endless Superman/Batman/Spiderman movies.
I'm really craving something fresh and there is such a huge wealth of superheroes and stories they could choose from, and adapt to screen with success if they handled with care. It's disappointing and frustrating to get nothing but the same old, same old all the time.
A part of me says the time is right, the last movie was a disappointment and I would welcome a change in direction at this point.
But with another reboot comes another origin story...and it seems far too soon to do that all over again.
Superman Returns got round that problem by being more of a 'continuation' of the previous story - but I felt it failed because it tried to hard to be reverential to the Reeve era movies.
I think Superman Returns failed because of the awful plot with Lois Lane's son. It pissed all over the "last son of Krypton" mythos and I can see why so many people hated it. The only thing I really liked about that movie was the beautiful film noir look it had going on. Otherwise it tried too hard but just didn't work.
If I have to sit through another Superman origin story in the near future, I think I'll kill myself, so I hope they leave that franchise alone for a good long while. I love the character and his universe but the origin story has been so overexposed I lose the will to live just thinking about the possibility of the Hollywood suits trying yet again.