At this point, I'd rather see a screen adaptation of the musical than a franchise reboot.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 January 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
as much as i love raimi's work on the earlier ones (and after Drag Me To Hell I don't know whose next film I could anticipate more), i gotta admit his reported demands for the Vulture didn't thrill me. "And having faced a sand creature and his evil clone, now he must face...FLYING MICHAEL STIPE!!!!"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
the only good thing about the "he's going back to high school" tweet is that it eradicates the possibility of shia labeouf taking the role
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i gotta admit his reported demands for the Vulture didn't thrill me. "And having faced a sand creature and his evil clone, now he must face...FLYING MICHAEL STIPE!!!!"
wtf, really? Seemed like the Lizard was the next logical villain to go to. Would also have accepted Kraven or Mysterio tho
― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Basically, any of the remaining Sinister Six. I guess none of the post-60s baddies sound all that appealing.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
In the future, if a movie doesn't do well with test audiences, they'll start shooting the re-boot before the original film even comes out.
Anyway, now looking forward to ZAC EFRON IS PETER PARKER...
― Cunga, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
As much as I love ol' webhead, I can't imagine I'll be seeing this.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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2nded. and i think spiderman 2 is a brilliant movie.
― shart in a bag, light it on fire (stevie), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i will personally kill any one of you who goes to see this proposed reboot
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i haven't read the later comics but, is there another side to peter parker that tobey maguire didn't cover? i can understand the divergence in batman interpretations, but the last three spider-man movies nailed the awkward-geek-turned-hero character. can't imagine what they are looking for apart from maybe like a slick tobey maguire. played by kevin bacon.
― high-five machine (schlump), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm pretty sure I read maguire-raimi-dunst (lol anyone remember her?) are a unified front, so ditching the director in love with old timey characters and dance sequences while keeping the star probably wasn't an option
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
dunst (lol anyone remember her?)
every time it rains i do
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
the vulture was really the sticking point for raimi - he acquiesed to studio demands for spiderman 3 (he wanted the lizard, they wanted venom) and the result was some phoned in crap - da croupier is dumb as hell and a queerly-to-bed, queerly-to-rise cockhound, the vulture owns, malkovich owns, would've been awesome
― doomed... to fart (cankles), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, don't get s-banned on my account - i trust raimi, i'm just saying i can see why sony didn't
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
on the one hand this is retarded, on the other, ten years is a pretty long time. to the 14-year-olds of 2012, a *really* long time.
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I imagine most of the 14 year-olds of 2012 who are into this kind of thing will have checked out the first one. There really is no artistic justification for a reboot (unlike Batman or Bond).
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
would it blow your mind if i said the primary motivation behind the spider-man franchise was not artistic?
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I realise I might be being a bit idealistic here (smiley face).
― BTW, I'm frightfully middle-class (chap), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
lol mayne
― Who Makes the Na'vis? (s1ocki), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm feeling pretty heartbroken about it, but I know that my kid (who will be 8 when the movie comes out) is already familiar with a few other versions of the Spider-Man story, and will probably happily eat up some other permutation, as long as it's not pure crap, and maybe even then.
― Kylie is a vacant Phifer (kingkongvsgodzilla), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
one rumor is they're courting James Cameron (who wanted to do this pre-Raimi), who could blast all artistic concerns away with 3-d webslinging.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
but then 2012 seems awfully soon for the next cameron pic
― da croupier, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
no need for any more films about characters over 30.
that's POPULISM!
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
can't see cameron doing anyone's franchise except his.
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
He did Aliens, did he not? And his next project is supposed to be a film version of the Yukito Kishiro manga Battle Angel Alita,
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
and he did the first Aquaman, the one with Vinnie Chase.
― shart in a bag, light it on fire (stevie), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
ratner's available, everything will be fine
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
mcg could use some work
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
bryan singer has a great track record.
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Katherine Hardwicke connects with the kids, she's clearly your gal.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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he was attached to spider-man for years iirc, potentially with michael biehn (lol) and arnold schwarzenegger as doc ock (lolol)
― doomed... to fart (cankles), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't see what's wrong with a reboot. Maguire as Spidey is a lot less interesting after all the crap we had to watch last time. Raimi also went WAYYYY overbudget on the last one, and we ended up with an awful movie.
Anyway, I vote Cronenberg!
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh I always thought Maguire was horribly miscast myself
oh man Cronenberg would have a field day with all the body issues and gooey substances and transformations/mutations - MAKE IT SO
― shake hands with Gongo? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I think he'd rather spend his 60s and 70s doing films for adults.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
like comic book adaptations ("a history of violence") and gangster movies ("eastern promises")?
― nutrition na'vi (s1ocki), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
you mean like the COMIC BOOK ADAPTATION History of Violence
oh snaps x-post
― shake hands with Gongo? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Marc Webb, the (500) Days Of Summer director, has climbed to the top of the Sony Pictures' list to rebirth the Spider-Man franchise. While the studio has a wish list of star directors like James Cameron, David Fincher, and Wes Anderson, the emergence of Webb as director comes as a huge surprise. But Mike Fleming's sources tell him Webb met about the Spidey reboot with the pic's producers and executives looking to get the picture into production later this year for a Summer 2012 release. Why will the pic take so long? Because it's likely to be shot in 3-D, and Sony Pictures plans to make an announcement about that "at the appropriate time".
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/will-sony-spin-spidey-reboot-with-webb/
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Thursday, 14 January 2010 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I probably would have seen Anderson or Fincher's take on tween spidey. But no surprise at them going for a guy who will likely give them everything they ask for on the thing.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 14 January 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
The hazy ideas I'm getting off a Wes Anderson-helmed Spider Man franchise is complete lols.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 14 January 2010 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
they're not just going for the guy called 'webb', then?
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 January 2010 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Static shots & slo-mo capture the thrill of webslinging quite adequately I'd say. (xpost)
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 14 January 2010 02:48 (fourteen years ago) link
The idea of Wes Anderson being on a studio "wish list" for a 3-D Spider-man movie is just insane
― da croupier, Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
lots of shots of depressed peter parker staring into the camera
― nutrition na'vi (s1ocki), Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Schwartzmann as Parker obv.
― Simon H., Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Upsidedown kiss scene lasts ten minutes, no actual kiss.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
The funeral at the end of Spider-man 1 is sort of like the end of the Royal Tenenbaums. Surely that's what got the wheels in motion.
― Cunga, Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
daily bugle now printed in futura
― nutrition na'vi (s1ocki), Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Macy Gray pops up in a corner of a room every so often with a battered accordion singing Nick Drake songs in Slovakian
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Stop-motion Doc Ock
― Simon H., Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh well.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 July 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
*shrug*
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 July 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
As much as I like Donald Glover and think he could do well in a Raimi-style Spider-Man film, the way they're building this one up (kind of in the Twilight mold), it wouldn't be a good fit. And will almost certainly be a terrible film.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 July 2010 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
He's 27 and they want him to play a high school student? What is this, Glee?
― ô_o (Nicole), Friday, 2 July 2010 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
...maybe THIS is the Spider-Man musical.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 July 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
If I had to pick someone from the Facebook movie to play Spiderman, I'd have gone with the guy who plays Zuckerberg.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 2 July 2010 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
only a year older than tobey maguire was
― the most horrifying moment in shallow grave (abanana), Friday, 2 July 2010 05:01 (thirteen years ago) link
too soon for a reboot
― the food has a top snake of 1 (ulillillia), Friday, 2 July 2010 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link
^OTM. Yaaaaawn
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
The trailer is trying way too hard to be dark and emo a la Nolan.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link