If they go Incredible Hulk route and do a sequel(or prequel)/reboot hybrid of sorts, then it could work....it's really too early to do a major reboot, like Batman Begins...and I sure as hell don't want to sit through another origin story so soon after Spidey 1.
That's just great. Take a series of films that is true to the comics that made the franchise famous, and destroy it.
I don't know how to feel about this. The first 2 were really good movies even though they did mess with some details and Kirsten Dunst was annoying. The thing is I'm not sure who to blame for Spiderman 3. Raimi never liked Venom and didn't want to use him, but the studio forced Venom on him. It's possible that the script was out of his control too but I would think that Raimi had enough control to not do the dance sequences and what not. I think that this reboot will probably borrow from Ultimate Spiderman because that's the only way I think they can do a reboot so soon because it would be different enough from the previous movies.
It was mostly true to the franchise, but it was by cutting Gwen Stacey out of the story (and going straight to MJ) that they cut the legend short and ran out of stories fast. In the comics, Gwen's death was as powerful as Uncle Ben's. I hope they'll start with her in the reboot.
Not making another Spidey film = $0 earned Making Spider Man 4 + the original cast/directors asking for insane money = relatively small profit margins Reboot the franchise + new, really cheap casts = GUARANTEED $$$$$ They may or may not destroy the franchise, but another 3 spidey movies would certainly bring tons of dough. They don't care what happens ten years down the road.
Speaking of rebooting, they need to do that to the X men movie. They totally botched the group fight scenes. They did alright in part 3, but it seemed most of the main characters was missing.
Visually the closest thing that looked like an X-Men movie to me was that old horror movie From Beyond.
Even if the movie had a 400 mil budget they would make a lot of money on it. It would gross 800-900mil + DVD + TV + Merch + product tie ins. I would like them to focus more on the villain. Batman joker. Superman lex luther. Xmen magneto. FF4 doom. and IMO spiderman's best villain has to be venom. They could have spent the entire movie focusing on that.
Man, Spiderman 3 was an abomination. Venom is one of my favorite characters and they butchered that. Not to mention Spiderman crying every other minute! Don't even get me started on X-Men 3. The only good thing about that one was Grammar's Beast. I'm hoping Iron Man 2 is better than the first, though it will be tough. Making it harder is not having all the original cast. Really irks me when they do that. I still get annoyed with The Dark Knight having two actresses playing one character. On the original topic, I hate teenagers. A teenage Spiderman would be bad.
First of all, Sony has to keep making these movies in order to maintain rights to the franchise and they can't keep going with Raimi's version forever. Circumstaces just make the eventual reboot come sooner than expected (Though wasn't Batman Begins just 6 years after Batman and Robin? This thing winds up getting pushed back to 2012 and it's five years between Spider-Man movies). Second of all: What? Sure they kept the general spirit in the "poor nerd" aspect, Aunt May, and the tights, but there was also: Absolute lack of banter from Spidey (this is a trademark), Pete barely has a social life/friends (which he arguably had almost too much of in the comics), Doc Ock was sympathetic, Gwen Stacy never a true love interest, f-ing Sandman killed Ben Parker... They took many liberties, like most modern comic franchises. On a personal note, I wouldn't mind seeing Harry come back (retcon or something) and have some sort of happiness with Liz Allen before dying. I like Harry.
Seriously. They could have built the entire fourth movie around him. Not the "i'm gonna eat your brains" slobbering joke the character eventually became, but the original creepy version who was just as likely to ambush Spider-Man from the shadows as he would be to show up at Aunt May's house helping her do laundry.
I'd say Spidey's best villain from the comics is Green Goblin, by far. He made both Pete and Spidey's lives a living hell for years and played a direct role in the death of his first love. Plus Norman is just so delightfully evil and manipulative...man, they shouldn't have killed him off in the first one. Willem Dafoe would have nailed his eventual full psychosis. Venom looks cool, and could be great, but the comics gave him an incredibly lame backstory and motivation (and then there was that "Innocents" and "Lethal Protector" crap). A film could make him into an awesome villain if they don't half-ass it. Like I said earlier, a long history/friendship/rivalry between Peter and Eddie Brock would go a long way towards making him interesting. They tried this in Spectacular Spider-man and it worked out pretty well. Would love to see an adaptation on the big screen.
They've been pushing Osborn waaaaaaaaaaaay too hard ever since they brought him back from the dead. I stopped reading Marvel after Quesada hit the reset button, but from what I gather he's become a Lex Luthor knockoff. Venom (and later Carnage) suffered from similar overexposure in the 90s. It's not like the Ditko/Lee villains were all that much deeper, a lot of them are just crooks who stumbled into superpowers or geniuses who turned to crime (though Mark Millar did a really interesting retcon-flesh-out on Vulture).
All true. I don't even consider the "revived" GG canon (my perogative damn it. "One More/Brand New Day" was a f-ing travesty). And the first batch of villains were quite shallow, for the most part. The tragedy that sets Venom apart was that all that initial mysterious build-up had to have an eventual payoff...and it sucked...and Carnage was an eventual by-product. I'm still mad about that, lol. But still, Gobby's the #1 Spidey villain for me.
