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

I hope we finally find out how he became "Spider-Man."

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, October 11, 2010 5:45 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

hahaha

Some website is claiming an EXCLUSIVE that Rhys Ifans is going to play The Lizard, but I haven't seen it confirmed anyplace.

isn't rhys ifans the lead singer of super-furry-animals?

That would be one slow-moving lizard.

Is there a thread for the doomed Bono/Edge Broadway musical? Shit just gets funnier and funnier.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/theater/05spiderman.html

The delay came as a sharp disappointment, for instance, to Samuel Moulton, a Harvard University lecturer who had bought tickets for Nov. 14 as the high point of a New York getaway with his girlfriend, who is flying over from England.

“She’s a big theater fan, and I’m a big U2 fan, so this seemed like the perfect convergence of interests,” Mr. Moulton said. “There’s too much planning required to rebook. I’m just annoyed that they couldn’t decide all of this earlier, since it seems obvious that this show would be a technical monster.”

man, i hope they find something else to do

Is that the article that references some giant unproven human slingshot device that thus far has seriously injured two actor/dancer/flyers after propelling them into the lip of the stage? And also the producers' apparent shock that all of the stunt and effects sequences need to be formally inspected for safety, not just some of them?

All this work, and it's a friggin' "Spider-Man" musical. With songs from U2. I can't wait for them to do a "Batman"-themed version of "Stomp."

It's funny how a Broadway musical directed by Julie Taymor, a Broadway musical about Spider-Man and a Broadway musical with music by U2 all sound like profitable ideas, but a Broadway musical about Spider-Man directed by Julie Taymor with music by U2 sounds immediately like a bomb.

"Turn Off The Dark" is such a lame title

that bit was bono's idea

btw Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben in the film apparently.

sissy spacek aunt may

It's funny how a Broadway musical directed by Julie Taymor, a Broadway musical about Spider-Man and a Broadway musical with music by U2 all sound like profitable ideas, but a Broadway musical about Spider-Man directed by Julie Taymor with music by U2 sounds immediately like a bomb.

What I am surprised by is how much money has been sunk into the whole enterprise...I don't see how it is ever going to make a profit, if it ever does get off of the ground.

particularly if they keep bodyslamming dancers into the stage

so so funny

its like an sctv sketch

At a certain point they should invite Bono to 'test the new ride we're developing.'

I'm having a hard time accepting the franchise after Thomas Haden Church was hired for the third. Now it's hard to take it as seriously.

I'm having a hard time accepting the franchise after Thomas Haden Church was hired for the third.

right. totesally. how could they?

absolutely destroyed the character forever

So, let me make sure I understand you correctly:

Thomas Haden Church is more of a franchise dealbreaker to you than a Bono-scored musical featuring a deathtrap contraption that slams hapless actors into the stage?

At a certain point they should invite Bono to 'test the new ride we're developing.'

― Ned Raggett, Friday, November 5, 2010 3:28 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

Ha, seconded.

So, let me make sure I understand you correctly:

Thomas Haden Church is more of a franchise dealbreaker to you than a Bono-scored musical featuring a deathtrap contraption that slams hapless actors into the stage?

― THC, Friday, November 5, 2010 11:35 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

the producers' apparent shock that all of the stunt and effects sequences need to be formally inspected for safety, not just some of them?

obv being made w/ Tea Party dough: GET YOUR GOVERNMENT OFF MY THEATRICAL HYDRAULICS

i don't get why they're rebooting this series. it isn't like, say, batman, where it had been nearly 20 years since the good installments of the original movie franchise. and it isn't like, say, the hulk, where the makers of the reboot (and i guess a lot of other observers?) said the first version was bad and didn't do justice to the story/character, which justifies making the reboot so close in time to the original.

this is just strange, and stranger if the villain is rehashed from the recent franchise, too (isn't that the case with the goblin character?).

be original! make a live-action movie version of peanuts, with a lunatic serial killer replacing lucy as the antagonist for charlie brown. or something.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, October 11, 2010 3:41 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

It's mostly a money thing. Once Raimi left the project, Sony execs probably asked themselves if they really needed Tobey Maguire and his massive payday (he and Raimi would've been expected to claim ~25% of the gross of Spider-Man 4) when they can just pay someone like Andrew Garfield six figures. And once you decide you're going younger and cheaper, you might as well reboot the whole franchise, because audiences will find it weird if they go to see Spider-Man 4 and it has a whole new cast. "Not making a Spider-Man movie" was of course never an option, because it's Sony's biggest and most important property by a huge margin.

^^ killin it ^^

ha I just now realized s1ocki wasn't making a weed joke

Surely men in black 3 could plug the gap left by spiderman in sony's balance sheet?

perhaps hancock 2

Hancocker

Men in Black's big, but it's not even close to being Spider-Man big. MiB2 made half as much as Spider-Man 3.

One thing working in the musical's favor: it will also be in 3-D. They should upcharge the audience, just to see if anyone notices.

I got an email a few weeks ago offering preview tix for the bargain price of $80, I think?

asked themselves if they really needed Tobey Maguire and his massive payday . . . when they can just pay someone like Andrew Garfield six figures

they could hire garfield the cat and pay him in three figures.

They should try for Bill Murray. Hey, you never know!

they could hire garfield the cat and pay him in three figures.

They could have just paid him in lasagna.

ha I just now realized s1ocki wasn't making a weed joke

― DJP, Friday, November 5, 2010 1:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i knew that was a risk, and i took that risk

Well, it could be worse.

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/11/15/annie-leibovitz-spider-man-musical-photos/

It looks like a 13 yr old playing around w/photoshop for the first time.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2010/11/carnage-1289851064.jpg

This is why you're going bankrupt, Annie.

Mr Freeze looks like the RKO tower

http://www.iantonio.com/i.antonio%20film%20+%20video/movies_files/RKO.png

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2010/11/spiderman.jpg

I'm assuming this is Mr. Freeze and not Mr. RKO Tower

Um apparently that is a new (female!) villain called Swiss MIss. No joke.

At this rate, the producers will rue the day they went for this instead of a "Howard the Duck" musical, which at least would have been cheaper to acquire the rights to.

I kind of want to go see this now! This is going to be even more of an epic fiasco than Carrie: The Musical.

Swiss Miss has a Tetsuo-style penis drill in her knees.

haha Mr. Freeze is Batman. My mind was struggling so hard to make sense of it.

I kind of like her though. I bet it's challenging to fight a baddie that can't be reached by land, sea, or sky because they are too covered in points.

Somebody needs to get out a Mego Silver Surfer or something and get crackin', cuz I can't think of any Broadway musicals with action figure tie-ins.

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!

LOL at Oscorp security:
* Not having the interns' pictures on their badges
* Letting the interns pick up their badges without having to show ID
* Using an observable code (as opposed to something biometric) to access the spider cage, or whatever they call it.

didn't understand why Martin Sheen was wearing false teeth

he's old?

sheen's had that telltale dentures hiss going on for a while now

Trailer for the new one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbp3Ra3Yp74

Some of the fight scenes look pretty cool, but the stuff with Harry is gonna be a chore AGAIN.

Some seriously unfinished CGI in that trailer unless they want things to look like PS3 cutscenes.

http://www.travisprange.com/blog/images/sonycantdesignanewfontdr0.jpg

This is the kind of movie where the bad guy asks a question and then whistles the “Jeopardy” theme, right after he says, “My, oh my, how the tables have turned!” Where Foxx’s villain, dubbed Electro after he turns into a human Taser, says, “It’s time to meet your destiny.”

Then, preparing to spray high voltage all over Times Square, “It’s my birthday, now it’s time for me to light my candles!” Which is not the only reason Electro reminded me of Schwarzenegger’s Mr. Freeze. Alex, Rob: At the banquet of Hollywood, you’re the Cheez Whiz.This is the kind of movie where the bad guy asks a question and then whistles the “Jeopardy” theme, right after he says, “My, oh my, how the tables have turned!” Where Foxx’s villain, dubbed Electro after he turns into a human Taser, says, “It’s time to meet your destiny.”

Then, preparing to spray high voltage all over Times Square, “It’s my birthday, now it’s time for me to light my candles!” Which is not the only reason Electro reminded me of Schwarzenegger’s Mr. Freeze. Alex, Rob: At the banquet of Hollywood, you’re the Cheez Whiz.

http://nypost.com/2014/04/25/the-amazing-spider-man-2-fails-to-impress/

Woah sorry bout that weird double post.

both of these movies baffle me in that there are usually a handful of really good choices (in part 2, the casting of Dane DeHaan, and some well directed rhythmic creativity to some of the action scenes, a decent reimagining for Gwen's exit) surrounded by a ton of terrible choices (script and pacing were terrible like part 1, origin story pt. 2 with dad Parker totally unnecessary, romance elements weaker that the first one, underdeveloped relationship between Peter and Harry, terrible, terirble villains - why did they even cast Paul Giametti? This movie somehow manages to waste Colm Feore - and oh god nerdy old Electro was just awful in every way)

tbf i don't know if there's anyway to ever put the Green Goblin on screen without it just looking awful, DeHaan probably the closest to getting the freakish psychotic nature of the villain. and i liked that they largely ditched the evil executive angle of Norman for the younger version, though I guess we'll never get our film version of Harry terrifying his wife and kids at the dinner table

Just ten minutes in, watching the first of these reboots, and its fucking godawful.

Seriously does it get better? That whole high school section at the start was embarassing.

no, stop now, there are so many good movies you could be watching instead

that was bad

The thing was, it didn't bring anything to the table that the Maguire/Dunst version didn't. And nothing was really improved upon.

I'm going to watch Tootsie now

Is this the correct rolling thread for bad news about Spider-Man movies?

http://screencrush.com/files/2015/06/tom-holland-spider-man-cast-pic-630x420.jpg