Why reboot Spider-Man ?

[palitoy]

^Because Mikey just woke up and realized there was a new Spider-Man movie, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, apparently.

Chris

Someone needs to tell Mikey about Google...

[kingdom warrior]

Because Spider-man is a cash cow. Period.

He is Marvel's A-list superhero, and he is more popular now than he ever has been.

Hear hear errr Mooooooooooo Mooooooooooo

[The Bat]

A few reasons I'm happy that they're touching on the origin story again: (1) Gwen Stacy was Peter Parker's first girl friend, not MJ.(2) Peter invented mechanical web shooters...no more organics! (3) I like Garfield better than McGuire as Peter Parker.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Because Mikey just woke up and realized there was a new Spider-Man movie, and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, apparently.

Chris

[Hector]

Why this thread being posted so late in the game?

This topic has already been discussed to ad nauseam many times before already...

[madmarva]

I'm just glad there's a Spidey movie coming out this summer, and three weeks later a Batman movie.

Originally, I was in Chris's corner. Recast but don't reboot; however, my favorite Spider-Man period was when he was still in high school or the early college years, so I think going back to the early days will be to my liking.

I like that they are going with Gwen Stacy as the girl friend. Though I prefer Mary Jane, the character Dunst played wasn't the character from the comics, or at least not the happy-go-lucky good-time girl characterization.

But the Rami films are great to me. I even like the third one, though it is inferior to the first two. Kind of like an issue of Marvel Team-Up instead of Amazing Spider-Man.

Obviously, I could nitpick the film before seeing it (I'll wait for Man of Steel to do that), but I'm going to give the movie the benefit of the doubt.

[Brue]

answer to original post:

money

as to needed another origin movie: garfield (parker) said it is not. the origin will be told in pieces through 3 movies

did raimi and mcguire want to return? not especially. dunst said they couldn't make spidey without the 3 of them. she was wrong. they even set it up to write her out of a possible spider-man 4.

[johnmiic]

^^^Story or rumor is Riami was pizzed at the studio's interference in film-making. Supposedly they wanted to have more merchandisable characters. After the success of SM2 tho, you would think they would let Riami do his magic. SM2 seemed to really be the successor to Superman the Movie. It fired on all pistons and really presented the character as he should be.

Venom in SM3 seems like an added-on plot. You can tell from how the film turned out Sandman was better served by the storyline than Venom. I think they should'a went the Hobgoblin route instead. It could be the studio preferred Venom to be the only villain in SM3 rather than Sandman. Riami favors the old villains rather than the newer ones.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I'm pretty sure Raimi and Maguire were ready to return, and a script was written involving the Vulture, to be played by John Malchovich. Then all of a sudden all of that was scrapped for the reboot.

Unless all the above was speculation passed on as "fact". Wouldn't be the first time on the internet.

But yes, Raimi was kind of already saying he wasn't happy with Spidey 3 as soon as it premiered. The studio really dictated what they wanted with that one, and it shows...A-LOT.

Chris

[VintageMike]

Also I'm pretty sure I read somewhere Raimi was not happy with how SM 3 turned out and was not coming back. On the heels of that I believe the stars did not want to come back either, so reboot it is. As documented elsewhere Sony isn't giving up a guaranteed cash cow. As a big Spider-Man fan I like the angle they are using telling the story using some elements from a different era (Gwen and Capt. Stacy) rather than just a continuation of what we've seen. The way I look at it, is the original three movies told one story and this is telling another, no different than two different story arcs in the same title.

[suspense39]

i totally agree

The movie looks good, but if I had my druthers I'd gone for a soft reboot. Like the James Bond franchise has done for decades. Like the Batman films did until the Nolan series. Change some of the cast, but not retread the origin.

I'm not going to hold it against this movie (much) but I wish we could just get to Spidey in action. I think Raimi covered the origin very well.

Chris

other than the web shooter .

[Brazoo]

I honestly don't think the origin will take up as much space as the original did. I have no doubt that they will be emphasizing the parts of this origin we haven't seen before... Peter's father as a genetic scientist, his parents disappearance and his partnership with Curt Conners.

Yeah, but in that sense the whole movie could be nothing but origin, no? Maybe it's a glass half-full/half-empty thing? I don't know. I hated "(500) Days of Summer" SO much.

Honestly, I feel like the summer movie grinch this year. I still haven't seen "The Avengers", and I'll probably have a lot of fun if I go, but I just don't have the energy or something. The only movie I'm excited to see right now is "Moonrise Kingdom". After that, I might tap out and spend the rest of my limited entertainment dollars elsewhere.

[Megospidey]

Because Spider-man is a cash cow. Period.

He is Marvel's A-list superhero, and he is more popular now than he ever has been.

[BlackKnight]

Why Reboot ?

... Because some Damn Fool Recently thought of the Idea, that Block Buster Summer Movies Come in 3's These Days ...

Batman's Next ..., and Rise isn't even in Theaters yet, and all anyone wants to talk about is Batman without Bale. Instead of like a Worlds Finest Movie with him and Bale, introducing WonderWoman, and the start of The Trinity ...., which could Finally give WB some Stomping ground for the JLA.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

It's a good way to do the same old, while making folks think they're getting something new. Like the comics, you don't want the story to advance too far from the basic premise.... so you dial it back every so often. It's also a great way to invalidate all your old merchandaise. "No mom; not THAT Spiderman! I want the NEW one!"

Don C.