Of course, even if Marvel got the Kingpin back, that's still no guarantee that Sony would pay to use him for a Spider-Man movie.
Spider Man Reboot - Your Cast & Plot?
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Of course, even if Marvel got the Kingpin back, that's still no guarantee that Sony would pay to use him for a Spider-Man movie.
How could that be, though? If that was the case, they could easily keep the rights in perpetuity without actually generating a profit out of it. I don't know why Marvel would sign that kind of a deal.
I've read that the movie will pick up with Peter Parker moping about how he failed to save his uncle with his new-found super powers (all of this happens prior to the beginning of the movie) and the story begins with him in high school. So essentially they just exclude perhaps the first act of Raimi's Spider-Man where we see him get bitten by a radioactive spider and learn and discover his new powers. All of that will be mentioned but not seen in this new version, from what I've read.
Well, Spectacular Spider-Man and the 90s cartoon both started with Peter already as Spider-Man and covered the origin later in a flashback. So with his origin already as part of the public consciousness thanks to the earlier movies, they can move on with the stories without the origin.
Dusty Ayres
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For you, they didn't. For me and everybody else, they did. Please stop beating the shit out of the previous director and writer because everything wasn't uber-perfect for you.
Er...no, not for everybody else. What little snarky Spidey-style dialogue there was, Maguire delivered horribly. Hopefully they get it right in this new iteration.
It's hard to write a serious, literal-minded nerd as a manic jokester. Longtime comic book fans understand that Spider-Man's incessant comedic commentary is a sort of nervous tic and a means of inhabiting the heroic persona, but that's hard to get across in a film, particularly with the very solemn version of Peter Parker that they went with. I'm not surprised they toned down the repartee; it would have made the character seem too bipolar.
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Thespeckledkiwi
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Actually that's what makes Spider-Man a very interesting character and makes him very likeable in the comics. Some of his witty banter is absolute gems in the comics, but it would be hard to pull off in a real action movie.
It's not so much Raimi couldn't get it out of Maguire or Maguire couldn't act it, it's the timing and the dialogue.
I think Parker is more down-on-his-luck, not solemn type of character, which was strange that they went that way.
But I think given in light Iron Man and Batman, they could pull off the witty humor while keeping the character's charm as Peter Park.
My reboot would have the origin story told in recap fashion like Hulk/The Hulk but there would be no super-villain, it would be a character piece.
I would pull a Sin City and adapt the first three Ultimate Spider-Man TPBs into the movie. As for casting...
I'd keep JK Simmons as JJJ. I'd cast an attractive middle-aged actress in the role of Aunt May. Maybe Nana Visitor. In the USM comics Aunt May is kind sexy for a lady in her late 40s-early 50s.
For the kids I'd cast unknowns in the 14-20 year old range. The one thing I love about USM is that the kids look like real kids.
BTW I was having a conversation the other day about whether or not Michael Cerra would be a good Peter Parker? In Superbad he really seemed Peter Parkerish.
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^ He even has a superhero type name.
Now we just need to get Mad Men's January Jones into a super-hero movie.
Now we just need to get Mad Men's January Jones into a super-hero movie.
She should be Emma Frost in another X-Men movie. Either her or Julie Benz.
Dear god no! Michael Cera has just been playing the same damn character his whole career and I'm really getting sick of it. It was funny & original when he did it for Arrested Development. Now, I just wish the kid would go into early retirement. (And now we've got Jesse Eisenberg doing the same thing!
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