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Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned
derGoldstein writes "Yesterday we discussed which sci-fi should get the reboot treatment next. If you consider Spider-Man as 'proper sci-fi,' then it would appear that's the answer. 'Sony Pictures decided today to reboot the Spider-Man franchise after Sam Raimi pulled out of Spider-Man 4 because he felt he couldn't make its summer release date and keep the film's creative integrity. This means that Raimi and the cast including star Tobey Maguire are out. There will be no Spider-Man 4. Instead, the studio will focus on a reboot script by Jamie Vanderbilt with a new director and a new cast.'"
Perhaps Raimi is too busy working on other projects.
Clearly, Peter Parker needs to be gay, vegan, anxious about climate change, and wear inappropriately tight clothing (other than the Spider-Man costume) to resonate with today's generation Q or whatever it is.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Are you kidding me? The Spiderman movies are about a freak who dresses up in a spider suit, shoots webs out of his wrists, and saves the world! If you didn't have to suspend disbelief to watch even a minute of any of the 3 Spiderman movies then you need to see a head doctor.
Yeah, fuck you too.
Of course there's suspension of disbelief involved in any Spiderman story. But suspension of disbelief is a matter of good storytelling. If the storyteller wants you to accept some strange new facts, or some rather significant coincidences, they've got to sell it, make it work in the context of the story. The fact that I accept, in the context of the story, that Spiderman gains impossible superpowers in an impossible way does not mean I automatically accept any other new occurrence in the story of equal or lesser improbability. They've got to make it work in the story.
Bow-ties are cool.