I am just learning, from Nikki Finke the queen of breaking news, that Sony has decided to scrap plans for the upcoming Spider-Man 4 film and instead reboot the entire franchise without Sam Raimi and company.
According to the report, Raimi apparently told Sony, “I can’t make your date. I can’t go forward creatively” and as soon as Sony heard that, they immediately scrapped plans for Spider-Man 4 and went into “franchise reboot” mode based on a script by Jamie Vanderbilt with a new director and a new cast.
I think all of us saw this coming with as many problems that the film has had getting off the ground, with script problems, with the amount of casting indecision, with the villain rumors, and even the fact that Raimi wanted to go “back to the basics.”
Now, let’s start the discussion on the most mysterious part of the story: rebooting the franchise? What’s that going to be like? Didn’t we already see Peter Parker start from a nerd and turn into Spider-Man? Is there a completely new storyline that hasn’t been touched yet? Was Peter Parker actually black?
What do you guys think?
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Roger Butner.
Okay, I don’t know about all the backline on this story. However, having loved the three spidey flix with Tobey MacGuire and whoever directed them, I’m having a VERY hard time imagining a reboot on this franchise. Batman desperately needed a reboot, and it was brilliant. We apparently don’t see the Superman series the same way, but I really liked the reboot there. But Spider Man? I’m hoping it’s just a director change, new direction kind of thing, without a reboot. We’ll see…
January 11, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Ryan
This is heartbreaking and thoughtless. From my reading, it seems that Raimi wanted to go back to basics and make a good movie after the studio strong-armed him into ruining SpiderMan 3. It looks like more of the same and without him fighting them, I think that they will be getting their way.
January 12, 2010 at 8:51 am
Dan
There’s been quite a bit more news to break since the original shock story dropped yesterday, so be looking for an updated post later. It could get very interesting…
January 12, 2010 at 9:14 am