Spider-Man To Be Rebooted Without Original Cast or Director

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Correct. Disney have to honour all pre-existing Marvel contracts, including the one with Sony for the Spider-Man films and Fox's X-Men contract. Any characters which don't already have films can however be made into films by Disney.
 
:rolleyes: So stupid. Trying to reboot a highly successful reboot less than ten years old is bound to put people off.

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)
 
Umm, I don't think the new one is going to be any more to your tastes then as "The new movie will focus on the superhero's alter-ego, Peter Parker, in high school."
 
I'm really surprised! I didn't expect Sony to be so abrupt and restart the entire franchise at this stage. But i did expect Raimi to leave. As he's been granted too much creative control and the movies just haven't worked to a degree. I just hope they don't literally start at the beginning with another origin movie. Considering the first 1 came out in 2001, i don't think its necessary. They should start in the middle with him powered up and fighting crime.
 
Oh come on...3 movies in 10 years, and most people were highly critical of the last one anyway.

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.
 
So, in other worRAB, they're making "Spiderman does Smallville." Just like how they also want to make an "X-Men kiRAB" movie.

God, what's wrong with these people? Have movie execs totally lost the plot?

WE DON'T WANT TO WATCH MOVIES ABOUT SUPER-POWERED EMOS!
 
Thank god i always thought that tobey mcguire and kirsten dunst pulled of there respecitive roles very poorley and sam rami always seemed to want to focus on peter parker rather than spider-man himself so a change is brilliant news in my opinion.

but how much you wanna bet they'll cast taylor lautner as peter parker!
 
I like this idea.

I'd like to see a darker take on Spiderman and focus on more interesting characters like Venom and Black Cat. Maguire and DunRABt were fine in their movies, but it had all gotten a bit stale.
 
I believe for this to really happen the film will need to be rated a 15. Especially if you wanted to see Carnage without any restrictions. But that's highly unlikey becasue they are trying to market this film to towarRAB 12 year olRAB (Dismissing the orginal set of 12 year olRAB tht saw the orginal film barely 9 years ago).
 
Ohhh, yeah I see it now. When I read it would focus on him in high school I pictured it being just about Peter Parker before he gets bitten... which would've made it a 'lame boy at high school' film rather than anything to do with superheroes. :p

Will still suck though - principal cast member dropping out... take a hint.
 
I really liked the first two films, but the third was a bad joke.

As for a reboot, and a vomit inducing 'Disney' one at that... I can picture it now. Spiderman: High School Musical! :( Madness...

How long before Harry Potter gets rebooted?
 
I'm sure that behind all this is the dark hand of Disney, who now own Marvel.

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.
 
It does seem like a strange decision, especially since the franchise isn't that old.

But then Part 3 was absolutely god-awful so maybe it will actually turn out to be a good idea.
 
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