NEW Spider-Man 3 Trailer

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

dunst (lol anyone remember her?)

every time it rains i do

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

hey, don't get s-banned on my account - i trust raimi, i'm just saying i can see why sony didn't

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.

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).

would it blow your mind if i said the primary motivation behind the spider-man franchise was not artistic?

I realise I might be being a bit idealistic here (smiley face).

lol mayne

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.

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.

but then 2012 seems awfully soon for the next cameron pic

no need for any more films about characters over 30.

that's POPULISM!

can't see cameron doing anyone's franchise except his.

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,

and he did the first Aquaman, the one with Vinnie Chase.

ratner's available, everything will be fine

mcg could use some work

bryan singer has a great track record.

Katherine Hardwicke connects with the kids, she's clearly your gal.

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, January 12, 2010 1:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

he was attached to spider-man for years iirc, potentially with michael biehn (lol) and arnold schwarzenegger as doc ock (lolol)

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!

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

I think he'd rather spend his 60s and 70s doing films for adults.

like comic book adaptations ("a history of violence") and gangster movies ("eastern promises")?

you mean like the COMIC BOOK ADAPTATION History of Violence

oh snaps
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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".

http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/will-sony-spin-spidey-reboot-with-webb/

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.

The hazy ideas I'm getting off a Wes Anderson-helmed Spider Man franchise is complete lols.

they're not just going for the guy called 'webb', then?

Static shots & slo-mo capture the thrill of webslinging quite adequately I'd say. (xpost)

The idea of Wes Anderson being on a studio "wish list" for a 3-D Spider-man movie is just insane

lots of shots of depressed peter parker staring into the camera

Schwartzmann as Parker obv.

Upsidedown kiss scene lasts ten minutes, no actual kiss.

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.

daily bugle now printed in futura

Macy Gray pops up in a corner of a room every so often with a battered accordion singing Nick Drake songs in Slovakian

Stop-motion Doc Ock

venom played by seymour cassel

Willem Dafoe plays a guy threatened by the appearance of a new young favored son type. Hey wait.

Jameson trying to quit smoking, silently throws an intern out of a window to blank indifference on the part of everyone else.

http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2004_The_Life_Aquatic/2004_the_life_aquatic_013.jpg

"Green Goblin is no more. I just wish to fly kites now..."

http://thequickanddirtydirty.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/schwartz1.jpg

"Did someone say kite-flying? I suppose we can use my web to tie the kite."

Discovery of amazing powers montage set to "The Kids Are Alright"

Mark Mothersbaugh recreates the soundtrack to the original 60s cartoon with analog synths & harpsichords.

^ would buy download the soundtrack

Anjelica Huston as Aunt May

bill murray as j jonah jameson