Spider-Man 4 (reboot thread) -- aka The Amazing Spider-Man

haven't people been swinging from ropes and wires onstage for several centuries now? why is this any kind of major, actor-splattering problem for the spider man people?

LOL @ every bit of news about this that comes up. It's almost shocking how bad of an idea this all seems, how bad it looks from those pictures, how the word "fiasco" may need to be redefined if this ever actually opens. And "Turn Off The Dark" is the stupidest name for ANYTHING i have ever heard in my life.

Also, whoever upthread fantasized that this would end up destroying U2: hell yes!

U2 must be so far beyond involvement at this point that it's found a safe perch from which to watch the, er, carnage.

why is this any kind of major, actor-splattering problem for the spider man people?

Because you will believe a man can fly.

it's found a safe perch from which to watch the, er, carnage

Not if they're going to be crawling all over the balcony like that.

Seriously, though, how in the world did this end up a stage musical (scored by U2?) and not some Universal Studios Florida stunt spectacular?

ambition! and art, man

Seriously, though, how in the world did this end up a stage musical (scored by U2?) and not some Universal Studios Florida stunt spectacular?

FOR FREEDOM

Naghdi made the announcement earlier this week at a meeting called “Basij and Media,” in which he blasted “false” cartoon characters, namely Spiderman, and suggested that characters who promote the authority of the Islamic Republic should be used in television programming instead.

They should get Armond White to review it.

"This Spiderman musical is why the terrorists envy us."

haha

they shd get Obama to review it, since everyone thinks it's awesome that our president likes SpiderMan.

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ha

Meanwhile back to what's his name:

“This is a beloved character and, you know, ironically, I’m gonna be the person in the audience going … ‘Who cast this English fool?’”

LOL @ every bit of news about this that comes up. It's almost shocking how bad of an idea this all seems, how bad it looks from those pictures, how the word "fiasco" may need to be redefined if this ever actually opens. And "Turn Off The Dark" is the stupidest name for ANYTHING i have ever heard in my life.

Also, whoever upthread fantasized that this would end up destroying U2: hell yes!

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, November 15, 2010 8:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OTFM.

Not ironically, I'm gonna be the person on ILE going "does this English fool really think Tobey Maguire is a genius?"

LOL:

The show stopped five times, mostly to fix technical problems, and Act I ended prematurely, with Spider-Man stuck dangling 10 feet above audience members, while Act II was marred by a nasty catcall during one of the midperformance pauses.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3D4uW44cDSw/R9d4u_s8gxI/AAAAAAAABbQ/oHaObmKJqvw/s1600/RS-Point%2BAd.jpg

Irrfan Khan cast as Nels Van Adder!

The new Springtime for Hitler?

“You heard screams,” Mr. Tartick said. “You heard a woman screaming and sobbing.”

How long until "Spider-Man" replaces "Macbeth" as THE PLAY THAT MUST NOT BE NAMED for actors?

Spider-Man: The Musical, music by U2

how many spidermen must die

Guess this is gonna be "dark"
http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/01/andrew-garfield-as-spider-man.jpg

And gritty? Dark doesn't work without the gritty.

Looks like the dude from Alphaville at that angle

Forever web

http://i.imgur.com/hxYrC.jpg

it's gonna be called The Amazing Spider-Man

http://www.big-t-shirts.com/ProdImages/big/792.jpg

Is that really necessary, HM?

http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/052/812/original/Deal_with_it_dog_gif.gif?1275684729

Deal with what? I don't understand.

Neither of those GIFs is properly punctuated. :(

kinda wish they'd mess with the costume a bit more. just to fuck with the fanboys, ya know?

The fanboy crowd loves it from what I can tell. I'm actually not a fan, especially of the texturing - not sure why he needs to look like he's a basketball.

(view in new window to see full-size btw, it's quite large)

basketball is exactly what i thought too

i think it would be awesome if in this version peter parker literally makes the suit out of basketballs

in the raimi flicks they never show him making the suit! it would be neat to see how a high school student could find the materials to secretly make such a fancy outfit.

then again i would watch a prequel to the star wars prequels documenting anakin's conception by the midiclorians...in real time

(not really)

Yeah I liked the gag in the first movie where he draws all these costume designs and then triumphantly reveals his shitty hoody-based outfit, but it did draw attention to how weird it is that he could cook up the real outfit.

in the raimi flicks they never show him making the suit! it would be neat to see how a high school student could find the materials to secretly make such a fancy outfit.

― pre-prison, prison, and post-prison (latebloomer), Tuesday, February 15, 2011 11:25 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

now that I think about it, this is even weirder when you consider that the rationale for organic web-shooters is that a teenage kid shouldn't be able to invent a magic adhesive that's better than anything 3M's r&d dept could come up with

the fuck is the deal w/ the sloppy spiderman emblem. it kinda infuriates me and i could care less for spiderman.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/07/the_amazing_spider-man_trailer.html

the rooting-through-the-bag stuff looks interesting; it's surprising that there is alleyway-stuff in here that could be outta raimi's film. i feel like they could've gone for some sort of arbitrary transplant (of location, of spider-man's skin-colour per that guy applying for the role a while back) & run with it on account of how recent a similar incarnation of the film was.

I still can't believe they're doing the origin story AGAIN. I was bored enough watching it in the trailer. Also the first-person stuff looks really lame

Yeah, I think this is going to brick.

i think i would probably watch spider-man regardless tbh. like i think geeky kid gets spider-man powers is just such powerful escapism that i will probably go see. i don't know if the moment-in-which-garfield-looks-nerdily-flustered in the trailer bodes well (emo, hooded, zuckerberg parker probably would've worked better, as a kinda reinterpretation), particularly compared to the bit in i guess spider-man 3 in which tobey maguire starts talking about soundwaves.

looks like they're gonna explore the whole 'parents' thing, though, which i don't even remember from the comics

i only ever saw the cartoon which, i don't know whether that makes me persona non grata, but iirc there was a subplot in which they were spies

I still can't believe they're doing the origin story AGAIN. I was bored enough watching it in the trailer. Also the first-person stuff looks really lame

^all of this otm. i felt exactly the same way watching that trailer.

is this gonna be in 3D? because that would make the fp stuff cool