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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.
do you not understand?
What Nick Cage Hulk movie are you referring to? I think you mean the Ed Norton one.
Mel Gibson?
"Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience." --Znork
I'm thinking that we could have Spiderman 4 - The Revenge.
Then we could have Spiderman 5 - The Final Frontier.
Of course, Spiderman VI - Jason Lives, will be a little scary.
That could be the final movie.
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I don't know if this is proper use of the term or not, and frankly I don't care. It's really fucking annoying and I wish people would stop using "reboot" in a non-shutdown-a-computer-OS-and-start-it-up-again" sense. This use of the word makes me want to stab someone in the eye.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/reboot
http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&q=reboot&hl=en
In order to REboot a production it must be booted in the first place, correct? So I've booted my slashdot comment. And the Spider-Man franchise was booted a few years ago. See how fucktarded that sounds? Well "reboot" in this context sounds just as dumb.
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How much do you want to bet that Spiderman is going to be a broody, angsty teen who sparkles. He won't have been bitten by a radioactive spider, he will come from an ancient race of spider-men, and he is the true heir to the spider throne. Mary Jane will be some sort of mystical, prophesied Queen of the Spiders. There will, of course, be two breeds of spider-men, the web-spinners and the wolf-spiders, the first for pre-teen girls who like safe, clean looking guys, the second for pre-teen girls who like their guys scraggly and dangerous looking.
Oh God, excuse me, I think I've just made myself sick.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I think she's still going by "Kirsten", actually.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Will blame this on piracy in 5, 4, 3, 2...
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Or Clint Eastwood... as he is now... grizzled and angry, that might enough angst.
We slashdotters really ought to write a screenplay! ;)
Spider-man with a walker....hmmmmmm.
Spiderman, Spiderman
Agent told him it was in the can.
But the suits missed the scoop
Now his Raimi has flown the coop
Lookout! There goes your Spiderman!
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Dang, I have mod points, but I just can seem to find the +1 Scary mod.....
I sincerely hope that any "reboot" of the series will bring back the tone of the comics.
Don’t let James Cameron direct it.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Peter Porker.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
If he really got that particular trait from his spider bite, rather than develop it, he'd be slinging web from his butt.
Then, at the end the family butler comes out and says "I happen to know your father died by his own hands, but I've waited all this years and allowed you to foster notions of revenge that tore apart your friendship. I hope you don't mind that I waited several years to speak up."
So basically the butler manipulated Harry by withholding that information. And thus the true villain of the Spiderman trilogy is revealed. I bet he was the one who convinced Harry's dad it was a good idea to take his super-soldier serum. Everyone always underestimates... The Butler!
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I don't recognise most of that, but what I didn't recognise smells an awful lot like Twilight, which I wouldn't recognise because I haven't seen...
You recognize a concept you aren't even familiar with by its smell?!
My God! That is a power only the Wolf Spider clan has! You must be the ChubbyHaidude, the Chosen Spider Shaman.
The enemies of Democracy are
We're here at the premiere of the new Spider-Man movie, where we've secretly replaced Toby Maguire and Sam Raimi with Folger's Crystals. Let's see what the audience's reaction is....
Then we will call it Spiderman Rebooty.
Damn it Mary Jane! we're all out of toilet paper!
"No fear. No envy. No meanness." Liam Clancy
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.
Time makes more converts than reason
In any case, it would have probably been the most way out there movie, really for the hardcore comic crowd and probably would have totally lost the under 21 crowd.
They cater to the under 21 crowd? I guess this explains a lot of the recent Hollywood releases. Though I though that when your IQ got that low you were nearly vegetative, how do they get to the theaters?