Spider-Man Reboot Underway

I read the news this morning, you gotta hand it to Rami for saying it's going to be crap because it'll be rushed.

I'd bet the reboot does very well.
 
I seem to recall that Stan Lee himself announced in his column in every Marvel comic back in the early 90's that James Cameron was going to make a Spiderman movie. :)

I have never particularly been a fan of the Spiderman comics, aside from J. Michael Straczynski's run. Get him to write this new movie, and I might be interested. Otherwise, I'm not going near it. Sony's already got my money from the first two Raimi movies, and that's all they're getting.

(I feel the need, though, to point out that I thought Kirsten Dunst was great as Mary Jane; and I totally agree with the author of the linked article that they need to keep the guy playing Jameson. :D )
 
They already have the script, it was written by Jamie Vanderbilt. In 1991 Cameron did write a treatment for Spiderman, it'll be in 3D so yea it's a good possibility he could come on board.
 
Jesus, is this the rate at which films are going to be turned over now!...Let's just keep making the same movies over and over and over again. Just look at the slate for this year's summer blockbusters and the majority are remakes, sequels, or based on tv shows or comic books. RIP The Original Screenplay.
 
I read this on some other movie website and I thought it was funny that so many people were so upset over this. It's Spiderman. It was dumb to begin with. It's for little boys to watch. Making it re-dumb isn't going to make it better or worse.
 
MeAgain said:
I read this on some other movie website and I thought it was funny that so many people were so upset over this. It's Spiderman. It was dumb to begin with. It's for little boys to watch. Making it re-dumb isn't going to make it better or worse.
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I agree, the reboot is for teenage boys.
 
No, no. I meant 9 year old boys.

It's Spiderman. It's not important. It never was. In any medium.
 
So what if it's not important? A lot of movies are dumb entertainment. It doesn't mean we have to do them over and over again. And I don't think it's for 9 year old boys. The first two movies were great, and I've been a fan of the Spiderman comics for about 14 years now.

And believe it or not, in the comic medium Spiderman is extremely important. What gives you the right to label something as "not important"?
 
It's a shallow superhero movie. It's about a guy who was bitten by a magic spider, turns really strong and can shoot webs out of his wrists. And he puts on a blue and red outfit and fights people made of sand.

If you like watching that kind of silly stuff, that's fine, but what's so outrageous about a studio remaking or rebooting it? It'll be more mindless stuff for Spiderman fans. What does it matter? This kind of stuff isn't what's killing Hollywood, it's what Hollywood is all about and has always been about: making money. Spiderman 1, 2 and 3 were made to make money. Sam Raimi was fired because he and the studio disagreed on how to make money. So they fired him, and will try a different way to make money.

So if you're such a big Spiderman fan, and hate the new movie, go read the comic books again, no?
 
MeAgain said:
Sam Raimi was fired because he and the studio disagreed on how to make money. So they fired him, and will try a different way to make money.
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Not sure if somewhere on the net it was reported that Rami was fired but he wasn't, he chose not to do the project because he didn't have enough time to put 100% of his creative effort into it, he could have done it half ass and rushed it but chose not to so the studio just said we will reboot now, the reboot was planned anyway after this next movie.
 
No, they need to redo Forrest Gump, Citizen Cane, Pulp Fiction, Psycho， 2001，The Raging Bull, etc. ;)
 
They totally need to re-do District 9, the Harry Potter Series, Iron Man for sure and have they re-booted the Incredible Hulk.....lately?
 
MeAgain said:
It's a shallow superhero movie. It's about a guy who was bitten by a magic spider, turns really strong and can shoot webs out of his wrists. And he puts on a blue and red outfit and fights people made of sand..

So if you're such a big Spiderman fan, and hate the new movie, go read the comic books again, no?
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If you think that's what Spidey is about then you've totally missed the point my friend.

Regarding the reboot... I can't say that I'm not surprised by it. Marvel set the precedent for this in the comics by ret-conning the character. Marvel basically crapped on years of Spidey history thus turning off a good number of fans.
 
Regardless of all what's being said here, I think the biggest issue in my mind that confuses me is it's just to soon...I mean the 2002 Spiderman is still in a lot of peoples minds. How do you market something over again that's so fresh and not even a Decade old yet?
 
Batutta said:
Jesus, is this the rate at which films are going to be turned over now!...Let's just keep making the same movies over and over and over again. Just look at the slate for this year's summer blockbusters and the majority are remakes, sequels, or based on tv shows or comic books.
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At least they waited a couple years to announce this one. It's not nearly as bad as Universal announcing the Battlestar Galactica reboot a few months after the recent series just ended. Or should I say the Battlestar re-reboot?

RIP The Original Screenplay.
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Unfortunately for those of us who can't yet afford to throw tons of money into their own film projects, or for those who don't have the connections to get investors, writing an original screenplay was always a good option to get our stories into some tangible form that we could possibly sell or use to wedge our foot through the film industry's door. Speaking of options, the few spec scripts that the studios are interested in are being optioned more frequently than they're being bought. Up until now it was possible to launch a career on a spec script sale, but on an option, good luck paying for anything beyond basic living expenses, if even that.

Sure, the odds were always stacked against the wild eyed dreamers who pursued this type of career. I think eventually the only way in will be through making your own either award lauded or super financially successful film, or industry connections. Something maybe like what Neill Blomkamp had where Peter Jackson mentored/produced his first film outside the studio system. District 9 was successful enough that Blomkamp probably got tons and tons of offers to come to Tinseltown and direct a big studio flick. Actually, I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that Blomkamp got offered this Spiderman reboot gig after Raimi stepped down.

So its still possible to get in, but the doorway has shrunken and narrowed. If the original film and original spec script doesn't bounce back by the middle of this decade, then I'd say the chances of breaking into the film industry will have gone from odds of one in a million to one in a billion.

It is really beginning to seem like a waste of time to put all the effort into writing an original spec screenplay, unless your name is Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, or James Cameron.

I hate to be such a doom-sayer, but it is hard to not feel this way these days. The one ray of hope is that something like Avatar, which was written as an actual honest-to-goodness original screenplay, is probably going to go on to become the all-time highest grossing film ever. If that doesn't wake up the studios, I don't know what will.
 
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