i'd make a movie of 'Power and Responsibility' the first USM arc, me... then do the Kraven/Doc Ock story, then Kingpin, then the return of Osborn, then Venom, then Carnage and finally, the USM version of the Clone Saga. but that last one'd be problematic since it features the X-Men, Fantastic 4 and the Ultimates and SHIELD...
Spider Man Reboot - Your Cast & Plot?
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^ Kingpin is also a problem, given that Fox still own (and apparently plan to reboot) rights to Daredevil movies, in which Kingpin
^ Kingpin is also out, as Fox still own (and are planning to reboot) Daredevil on the big screen; Mr Fisk is the property of that onscreen franchise.
^ Kingpin is also out, as Fox still own (and are planning to reboot) Daredevil on the big screen; Mr Fisk is the property of that onscreen franchise.
Young Peter Parker, an amateur motor-cycle racer and high school student, witnesses a UFO crash during a cross-country racing event in upstate New York. The extraterresterial spacecraft is piloted by a police officer from the planet Spider, who was transporting several dangerous criminals to a prison planet when one of them broke free, damaged the ship, and released the others. Dying, the space cop give Peter Parker a high-tech costume that imbues him with the power of a Spider, and the key to the spacecraft, which is capable of transforming into a giant robot.
In an ideal setup, the storytelling would be so strong that if actors chose to leave, you could bring in a whole new director cast and let them do their own thing for more movies yet adhere to everything that came before it, e.g. the Raimi trilogy and the Webb trilogy would compliment each other but also stand on their own.
Believe it or not, he's slinging through air?
Believe it or not, he's slinging through air?
^Guards! Seize that man, lock him up and throw away the key!!!!
Although I would've liked to see Raimi's Spider-Man continue, the idea of a reboot sounds promising. All the Spider-Man cartoons and movies that I grew up with focussed on a college-aged Peter, so the idea of a high school-aged Spider-Man akin to the original comics and the new Spectacular Spider-Man animated series sounds promising. I don't have any real ideas as far as casting choices, it would probably be best to go with an unknown for Peter. The biggest problem I have with the Raimi movies would probably have to be the costume, Spider-Man's costume should look like something he made himself, which the Raimi costume definately didn't. Of course the way I see it, Spider-man's costume has never looked like something he believeably made himself. Costumewise I think the new movie should take a more realistic approach, make Spider-Man's outfit look like something a middle-class 15-year-old from Queens would be able to put together. My take on this is something akin to Ben Rielly's Scarlet Spider costume. I'd have Peter create his mask from a red ski mask with an old, broken pair of Oakley's glued into the eye-holes. The blue parts of his costume would be a unitard he finds at a ballet outfitter, and over the unitard he'd wear an old red t-shirt with the sleeves ripped off. For the web on the red parts of the costume and the spider on his chest, I'd have him use either a Sharpie marker or spray-paint and stencils ala his wrestling costume in the first Raimi flick. As for his boots and gloves, I don't know. Does this sound like a good idea to anyone else, or am I just being rediculous with my want for realism in a fantasy franchise?
^Yes, you are. Do you want him to die from radiation poisoning too, as a result of being bitten by a radioactive spider?
I'd go with the genetically enhanced spider ala Ultimate and the Raimi movies. And I'm not talking about extreme realism; it is a fantasy movie about a teenager with spider powers afterall. I just think stylistically it should be more rooted in the real world. There's no reason the spidersuit can't be made from material accessible to a teenager and still look good. The batsuit in Batman Begins was made from spelunking gear for God's sake.
^ Genetically enhanced spiders still don't transfer their powers to humans, as far as I know.
Okay, I know where you're coming from - the costume obviously looks very fancy and obviously made by a professional costume designer. But, come on - do you really want him running about in something like he was wearing in the wrestling scene in the first movie? You have to allow for some suspension of disbelief.
Okay, I know where you're coming from - the costume obviously looks very fancy and obviously made by a professional costume designer. But, come on - do you really want him running about in something like he was wearing in the wrestling scene in the first movie? You have to allow for some suspension of disbelief.
No, I don't want something akin to the wrestling costume, I'm thinking of something closer to Scarlet Spider's costume only with the colors inverted. I don't think it should be as thrown together as the wrestling costume, it should look like he put some work into it, but it ought to believable be something he made.
I'm old enough to remember the Nicholas Hammond series and the outfit he wore. I don't think post-Batman audiences would have accepted something like that on a big-budget superhero movie. I can forgive and overlook Spidey wearing an outfit that probably would have been too elaborate for a real-life teen to make himself.
MJ made at least one of Spidy's costumes in USM. the first was from the wrestling company.
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Stone_Cold_Sisko
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I would stick to the high school, and go in more of an 'Ultimate Spider-Man' direction - in terms of tone, not any specific plot. The first film kind of skipped over that by having him graduate halfway through. This franchise would be in high school the whole time at least for the first film or two.
Also the first Raimi movie was more of an old-school Peter Parker and old school HS dynamic. A lot of is just feel and style, it was a very 'colorful' high school, Tobey and Dunst had a certain vibe to them, you can do a completely different experience with a different director, different actors, and a different style of script.
I don't give one whit whether they go with organic or mechanical shooters or whether the spider is radioactive or genetically engineered or whatever.
These are non-essential to things that will actually make this film good or not.
Also the first Raimi movie was more of an old-school Peter Parker and old school HS dynamic. A lot of is just feel and style, it was a very 'colorful' high school, Tobey and Dunst had a certain vibe to them, you can do a completely different experience with a different director, different actors, and a different style of script.
I don't give one whit whether they go with organic or mechanical shooters or whether the spider is radioactive or genetically engineered or whatever.
These are non-essential to things that will actually make this film good or not.
Majored in Science, Minored in Home Ec.
This is Peter Parker we are talking about here. He double majored in Science and Home Ec.
He and Aunt May won the Quilting Bee his sophmore year.
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Jetfire
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I was watching Spider-Man 3 today and I really don't care for Toby McGuire...hope they make do re-boot this with someone good...I actually like James Franco though...wish he could carry over into a re-boot.
^ Kinda dead, though, isn't he? (His character, anyway).
