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

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

I would ask if you are 14 years old but it would be insulting to earlier real and made-up ilxors who have posted here at that age.

The Spider-Man ride at Universal Studios is a 3D first-person thing. It's really good and it's only 5 mins long.

Wow. Now with even more daddy issues. Somehow that's commendable.

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

My husband told me there was a story in the comics where the parents were actually spies who got killed, I hope they don't do that for the movie -- it would be so cheesy.

Was doing some idle checking around today and discovered apparently the murderer of his parents was...the Red Skull. Or one of them. Crossover!

Sorry, Lorax, that was a little blunt.

I'm not offended by you trying to start beef over a spider-man movie

Was doing some idle checking around today and discovered apparently the murderer of his parents was...the Red Skull. Or one of them. Crossover!

I'll be on the look out for Campbell Scott in the Captain America after-credits teaser.

An impossible dream i'm afraid

will probably see this at some point but seems ridiculously early for a reboot. not as quick as the Hulk reboot which was, what, two years after the first movie I guess. but still, wtf. they could have just continued the series on with a new actor if they wanted to and not started over

i mean it's not like we get 'the origin of james bond' every ten years when the lead actor changes.

The most recent Bond actor change *did* give us "the origin of James Bond" fwiw. Or at least showed him completing the kill that first earned him his double-0 designation.