The Amazing Spider-Man: News, Trailers, Reactions

Well looks like Spider-Man 4 is canceled and the franchise is over! Yup the Raimi, Maguire, Dunst Spidey days are over.







Edited by XtremeOne1 - 04-May-2012 at 8:29pm

A high school reboot would be good yeah.  I mean, if they rebooted  the series, but had him in college again, what would be the point? It would just be the same as the old  movies.

Your Bendis idea is good XtrememOne.  Do they ever get comic book writers to pen the scripts for comic book movies?

I'm pissed. Their logic is going around in circles. They ditched Raimi because he said he couldn't be done by the 2011 date. Then they push it back to 2012 so they can find someone else. Push it back to 2012 and keep Raimi. Easy.

F@#$ you, Sony.

Originally posted by Crawler I'm pissed. Their logic is going around in circles. They ditched Raimi because he said he couldn't be done by the 2011 date. Then they push it back to 2012 so they can find someone else. Push it back to 2012 and keep Raimi. Easy. F@#$ you, Sony.

From the sounds of it I thought Raimi walked away, rather than being sacked.

They should get Michael Chabon to write the new Spider-Man movie.  He did script work on Spider-Man 2 and is an amazing writer.

Originally posted by Binaryan They should get Michael Chabon to write the new Spider-Man movie.  He did script work on Spider-Man 2 and is an amazing writer.

I have The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay on my shelf to read. I've heard nothing but praise for the man. He should totally come to the new franchise for some scripting if he was the Spider-Man 2 helper dude.

See, I really disliked Spider-Man 2 and 3. I felt Tobey Maguire wasn't the right choice for the role at all, and while he looked the part, and was a decent enough actor, I can't explain why I disliked him so much. Spidey 3 was just ridiculous with the emo Parker and his dance routine. Kirtsen Dunst always annoyed me as MJ. To me, MJ shouldn't have been so soft... if that makes sense? Not being a follower of Spidey other than the animated series as a kid, it just seemed kind of... I don't know... I didn't care about Peter, and I certainly didn't care about MJ. Harry I cared about, as a character, and Aunt May, but other than that, I thought they fell short.

It's far too early for a reboot. It's not like they were universally panned like Ang Lee's Hulk movie was... if they reboot now, it smacks too much of desperation. Ditto X-Men. Can you really see anyone else playing Wolverine other than Hugh Jackman until he's too old to feasibly play him? I think if Marvel are going to start rebooting things, they need to realise that the media of movies are completely different to that of comics-- while comic fans understand the need to reboot once in a while, the wider audience of movie goers might not, and therefore might feel alienated from the movies due to recasting or even restarting the entire franchise.

Bruce Campbell would be awesome as Mysterio.

Truthfully...if you want to see a really good rendition of Spidey on some type of film watch Spectacular Spider-Man. It is easily the best interpretation of a Marvel character on cartoon period...Its fun, it has action, it has story, and it has character development. Its sad that it was cancelled too :-(

There were good things about all 3 Spidey movies, but I have never been able to sit through any of them more than once.  They were like Avatar, I went to see them because of the hype, and they held my attention, but in the end they didn't leave much of an impression with me.  Perhaps a reboot could be good.

Well looks like they already have a writer, at least for now(it has 2 and half years to get rewrites). The writer is Jamie Vanderbilt, and his resume doesn't look to impressive but who knows he could make a good one.

I don't really care for this news. I think the three Spider-Man films that were done were not only GREAT movies in their own right (yeah I liked 3, wanna fight about it?), but they've covered villains AND set up certain plot points. So what, now I get to see teenaged Spider-Man beat up the Green Goblin and Venom?

I know that the comic book industry thrives on re-boots and using the same villains and plots over and over and over again, but do we really need that in an already sucessful franchise?

I'm fine with a new writer/director/actors, but I don't see the need for a reboot.

Rebooting is such a terrible idea. Hulk, anyone? "This is how it SHOULD have been done!" "Really? Because it still blew, and you replaced Jennifer Connelly with Liv Tyler. I love both actresses, but Jennifer is so much classier and such a better actress, and has way cooler eyebrows.

Anyway, the only Spider-Man film I enjoyed was 2. The first one just felt boring and overworked, and the third one had way too many stories that collided in a weird way, I felt. I loved that Bryce Dallas Howard played Gwen Stacy. And Rosemary Harris IS Aunt May as far as I'm concerned. And I was secretly hoping the fourth one came through in the end just to fix everything and give the audience a proper close. Buuut, whatever. I don't mind that they cancelled it.

However, rebooting it is such a dumb idea.