Here’s the article at the Daily Cartoonist:
“Spider-Man” Director Sam Raimi has pulled out of the Spider-Man 4 project and with him goes Tobey Maquire. According to Deadline.com, Sony Pictures has decided to push Spider-Man 4 to a summer 2012 release with a new script and cast centered on Peter Parker back in high school “grappling with extraordinary powers” as a young adult.
I guess this is aimed at getting more “young adults” into the theater. I read “make it more like twilight” when I read the article. Maybe that’s just my opinion. Spider-man 1 and 2 were great achievements in the realm of comic book movie making, then the studio wanted to make it “successful” and “marketable” we got Venom shoehorned into the plot of Spider-man 3, a hokey dance sequence and a giant Sandman.
I hope they take as an example the reboot of Spectacular Spiderman which is amazingly well done and available on DVD now.
Check it out, it’s so good I DVR’d it.
twilight sucks. but then again spidey 3 was like watching superman 4 the quest for peace while getting kicked in the balls by a rhino. rami and magire leaving don’t bother me, but a total reboot of the series is unessary, just continue the adventures, they don’t have to take it back to the begining…
I don’t mind a reboot. I just don’t want to sit through another darn origin story!!
I’m going to see it just to laugh at it failing to be entertaining. Toby will always be the face of Spidey for many fans, including me.
Right on, Jack!
It might be good, you never know.