Spider-Man (2012) Reboot

SmallBlueThing · 09 February, 2011, 01:27:01 PM

Mirrored eyes and a slightly worn-looking bulge of discoloured spider-genitals? Hmm.

SBT

JOE SOAP · 09 February, 2011, 02:19:31 PM

Interesting crotch-rot.

radiator · 21 February, 2011, 09:08:41 AM

...and now apparently, The amazing Spider-Man isn't a reboot at all:

QuoteAvi Arad, an executive producer on The Amazing Spider-Man, has revealed that the new Spider-Man movie will not completely reboot the first three films.

Arad spoke to Entertainment Weekly, stating that The Amazing Spider-Man will tell the stories that happened around the events of the earlier films.

"It's not a comeback. You have to look at it this way: Do you want to know more about Spider-Man? This movie is going to tell stories that you didn't see in movies 1, 2, and 3."

Arad went on to say that The Amazing Spider-Man "won't erase what came before, but will try to weave a narrative that could take place within the framework of the earlier films."

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a304887/arad-amazing-spider-man-is-not-a-reboot.html

TordelBack · 21 February, 2011, 09:14:11 AM

Man, that is some creative wriggling.

Radbacker · 21 February, 2011, 10:23:59 AM

whats with the mechanical webshooters then? oh thats right that was the time his bio webspinners stopped working from over use or somethuing aso instead he built mechanical ones, which he then ddidn't ever use again in number 2 or 3 (even when he lost his powers in 2).
Please dont do this Marvel films you'll f@#k em all up if you try to tie them in, just admit its a reboot and get on with it.

CU Radbacker

radiator · 21 February, 2011, 10:39:42 AM

Hmm, it does seem a little silly and short-sighted - if you're recasting the whole thing, then you may as well start from scratch. My guess is that they will try and hedge their bets and claim this one is a pseudo-sequel to the others, unless it does really well, in which case they will spin a few sequels out of it and claim it was always intended to be a proper reboot.

Roger Godpleton · 21 February, 2011, 10:50:54 AM

Fuck man, ah fuck. Why the fuck did they have to fucking go and do that? I mean, fuck, y'know? Saying that shit, man. What the shit, yo? Why'd they- I mean, why'd they wanna...

Fuck it man, I'm fucking - I mean, like... Fuck.

JOE SOAP · 21 February, 2011, 10:56:13 AM

In Marvel terms, it makes as much sense continuity-wise as their comics, so it's AOK.

Dandontdare · 21 February, 2011, 11:06:13 AM

at least it means that the story won't just be the origin story all over again

radiator · 21 February, 2011, 11:08:07 AM

I think for the likes of Superman, Batman, Spider-Man - they're so well known now that you could do the origin as a thirty second blast at the start of the movie and be done with it.

TordelBack · 21 February, 2011, 11:30:45 AM

Quote from: radiator on 21 February, 2011, 11:08:07 AM
I think for the likes of Superman, Batman, Spider-Man - they're so well known now that you could do the origin as a thirty second blast at the start of the movie and be done with it.

See Megamind for how this can be achieved before the credits.

radiator · 21 February, 2011, 11:57:57 AM

I liked how it was handled in All Star Superman - one page, three or four panels with short captions, done.

Mardroid · 21 February, 2011, 05:08:06 PM

Quote from: Dandontdare on 21 February, 2011, 11:06:13 AM
at least it means that the story won't just be the origin story all over again

Exactly. I actually like the fact it won't be a reboot in the strict sense of the word.

Just see it as a self contained story that happened somewhere in that timeline but isn't tied to the original, and it could work. There is plenty of time unaccounted for after all, and, concerning the new love interest, [spoiler]Peter Parker didn't hook up with M J properly until the end of episode 2[/spoiler].

As for the mechanical web-shooters thing.... if they're not actually mentioned they could be taken as a kind of in-gag. I.e. we see them on the suit but he just does his thing as he always has.

James Stacey · 21 February, 2011, 05:14:04 PM

To be honest if having mechanical webshooters in one film and not in another is the only hurdle for suspension of disbelief in a Spiderman movie, you are doing well.

JOE SOAP · 21 February, 2011, 06:42:15 PM

Quote from: Mardroid on 21 February, 2011, 05:08:06 PMJust see it as a self contained story that happened somewhere in that timeline but isn't tied to the original, and it could work. There is plenty of time unaccounted for after all, and, concerning the new love interest, [spoiler]Peter Parker didn't hook up with M J properly until the end of episode 2[/spoiler].

Nonsense, the fact that the Lizard is the villain in the new film scuppers any continuity between series; Dr. Curt Connors didn't get a chance to become the Lizard in Raimi's, then there's the anomaly of Gwen Stacey in the third.