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

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!

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.”