Spider-man 4 cancelled; franchise to be rebooted

Mr Wallstreet · Post by **Mr Wallstreet** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:36 am

The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision Blog confirmed late today that Spider-Man 4, a movie that had recently hit the brakes due to creative differences primarily over what villain the movie should use, has been outright canceled.

Full article:
http://www.newsarama.com/film/Spider-Ma ... 00111.html

All the former stars including Raimi will not be attached to the new film. The studio wants the new film to be more like Ultimate Spider-man and have it focus on Peter dealing with High School problems as well as struggling to be Spider-man

I think it's a stupid/dick move on the studios part. Raimi has proven that he knows what he is doing when making a film and can turn even a shitty film into a money maker at the very least (see Spider-man 3). I'll wait to see who the writers, director, and actors are for the new film before I start bashing it.

MGM · Post by **MGM** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:56 pm

Reboot one of the most succesfull superhero franchises? That's stupid. Wouldn't it be better to just pick a villain?

wolf_2099 · Post by **wolf_2099** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:53 pm

They might be going for an actually good movie, considering the first and third ones are considered pieces of trash.

Quality character with a bankable story like Batman or Iron Man.

MGM · Post by **MGM** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 2:59 pm

First one wasn't that bad. It lacks from the fact it has to tell an origin, but apart from that it's pretty good.

XIII · Post by **XIII** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:01 pm

The Green Goblin wasn't very effective. Still better than hoover-skating Marty McFly- Goblin from Spiderman 3 but ridiculous still.

ChimeraCreative · Post by **ChimeraCreative** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:02 pm

Chris's facebook said the Vulture was planned on being the villain. That doesn't scream quality bad guy to me.

And I'll agree that the re-launch sounds like ass.

jedispyder · Post by **jedispyder** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:04 pm

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni1404818/

"As you undoubtedly know by now, Spider-Man 4 is no more. It was killed at some point yesterday afternoon, roughly a day or so after John Malkovich was happily awaiting his final Vulture script. It was one of the weirdest turnarounds I've ever seen in the time I've hung around online moviedom, particularly since I continued to receive comments gleefully extolling the virtues of Vulture."

So no clue if they'll still use the Vulture for the new movie or not, evidently Malkovich came out one day too late (as in he was planned for the now cancelled movie).

ChimeraCreative · Post by **ChimeraCreative** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:10 pm

Gotcha, I stand korekted. ^_^

Mr Wallstreet · Post by **Mr Wallstreet** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:05 am

Ai agreed with some sentiments above. Spider-man 1 was a good film, the telling of the origin story did take up a lot of valuable time and the only other problem was the Green Goblin. Willem Dafoe as Norman Osbourne was great but as GG he sucked.

Spider-man 2 was fantastic; don't really have any real qualms about it.

Concerning the rumormill surrounding the villains, from what I hear, Raimi wanted to get back to using one villain, the Vulture, rather than two or three. The studio, from what I have read in blogs wanted to use Carnage but Raimi was adamantly against that.

I also read some weird rumor about someone (Raimi or the stuio) wanting Anne Hatheaway as the Vulturess. I have no clue about the source of this rumor but its been flying around (no pun intended) a lot

jedispyder · Post by **jedispyder** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:13 pm

ChimeraCreative wrote:Gotcha, I stand korekted. ^_^

Technically I should be the one to stand corrected since I passed along partially incorrect date