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Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned

Posted by Soulskill on from the things-from-the-past-decade-don't-need-reboots dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Reboot how? by Grishnakh · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Avatar wasn't anti-science, it was anti-environment-destruction. In Avatar, science was what allowed them to create the human/Na'vi-hybrid bodies and use them as "avatars", so that humans and Na'vi could learn about each other better, and humans could learn about the Na'vi by becoming one of them. That's a great use of science.

    Science was also what allowed some of the humans to gain a better understanding of how the biology on Pandora worked; the whole neural-network-in-the trees thing.

    The problem was that other humans just wanted to burn and pillage the moon to get their precious mineral, without any regard for the great things to be learned from the Pandoran biology and organisms and the other sentient beings already living there.

    This isn't too different from things here on Earth right now: some people want to "drill, baby, drill" without worrying about environmental effects, while others want us to build new technologies, but in a more environmentally-friendly way such as solar panels, wind turbines (especially ones designed to not chop up birds), etc. The point is that it's possible to have advanced science and technology without destroying a natural environment completely, even though it's not quite as easy or cheap in the short term. In the long term, though, it's important: in the end of the movie, the humans were sent "back to their dying world".