It would appear that the stories about the SPIDER-MAN 4 production problems were being generous. Word has come out from Deadline Hollywood that the entire production has been thrown to the curb and that Sony will be rebooting SPIDER-MAN with a new cast and new director. The reboot will take Peter Parker back to when he was a high-schooler dealing with teenage problems that we’ve already seen before. The new SPIDER-MAN looks to debut sometime in 2012.
This is both good news and bad news as far as I’m concerned (and it is my site so my opinion reigns king). As I wrote before, if the two sides couldn’t come to terms with what they wanted to do with the character this is for the best. No one wants another half-assed effort of a movie. It is kind of sad that Sam Raimi is leaving, because I like him as a director and I really liked the first two SPIDER-MEN, but I also sort of blame him for SPIDER-MAN 3.
I am pissed that they are rebooting the franchise because that seems unnecessary to me. I don’t want to see high-school Spider-Man again; he wasn’t that interesting the first time. It really didn’t start to get good until he moved into the city and started fighting guys with tentacles. And I’m just going to come out and say what everyone is thinking; origin stories suck. I don’t want to see Peter Parker become Spider-Man for the second time, I want to see him BE Spider-Man.
And now we wait to see who will direct and who will star. My guess is that they won’t be returning my calls again…bastards.
