Comments on: Bomb Dropped: Sony Kills ‘Spider-Man 4′ Off, Plans To Reboot Franchise

By: tumulus

tumulus — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:33:41 +0000

The “reboot” seems to be a cheap way to make bucks off telling the same old story again and again with cheaper actors. How many “origins of blah” movies do we have to get and how few “hero vs great bad guy we’ve all been waiting for” do we have to wait for? The studios are failing these franchises.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:03:17 +0000

The third film in every franchise is hated. Star Trek 3. Hated (not by me, but by many). But that franchise rebounded with the fourth. It seems like it would have been a much safer bet by the studio if they just continued the existing machine.

By: J

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:50:12 +0000

All i can say is …. i can never get tired of Spiderman. Unless its part 3 or something like it. The first 2 films were awesome (just my opinion). I’ll wait til i hear more about the reboot before i pass judgment.
@ Henchman21: i agree JK Simmons owns that role.
@ Empress Eve: I feel Routh did well and that some of the other cast members + story plot made Superman Returns seem failish.
@ Tom Cheredar & Slipstream: /picardfacepalm +1 x infinity squared. LoL

By: Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:46:40 +0000

@slipstream +1 x infinity

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:47:12 +0000

I am pretty worn out on Spider-Man. His mythology is so ingrained in my brain at this point that I don’t think I could get excited about a reboot. Hopefully Raimi will devote more attention to that which he is best at. Drag Me To Hell sort of films.

By: SpideyNOT

SpideyNOT — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:21:11 +0000

I love love love the genre – looked forward to the first spidey movie – then had to work hard to stay awake. I never bought Tobey McGuire as spidey, Dunst was boring and everything always felt forced. I know it made tons of money – but yech it was just bad.

By: Ttandc

Ttandc — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:22:00 +0000

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY :D

Raimi had 2 chances to redeem himself and failed. 3 strikes and your out of there. Maybe now we’ll get the Spidey Vs Venom movie we expected to see and not whatever the hell that was in Spidey 3.

I’m wondering how long Sony have the franchise for though.
I would have liked to have seen the Marvel studios do this one themselves rather than loan it out to others. Spiderman is like the figurehead of the Marvel company.

By: Henchman21

Henchman21 — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:30:20 +0000

Whatever happens, they need to find a way to get JK Simmons back as JJ Jameson. I can’t see anyone else in that role.

Beyond that, I’ll reserve judgment until I hear who the new director is, who the new cast is and what not. It could be worthwhile to bring some new blood into the series.

By: Empress Eve

Empress Eve — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:27:00 +0000

I was tired of this franchise, but I wanted it to just go away for a while, not be rebooted. Look what happened with The Hulk. They rebooted so soon and now no one can really get on board with the franchise.

I wonder who they’ll get to be Peter Parker/Spider-Man. If it’s someone established, then maybe it’d have a chance; I feel like any newcomer will get shot down like Brandon Routh did.

ANd please, please please no John Malkevich in the next movie. And NOOOOOO Jake Gyllenhaal.

By: korollocke

korollocke — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:04:08 +0000

In four were facing vulturets in 3-d, yes a lady vulture sqaud. Bonus no Dunst as MJ!maybe now we can get the Lizard or Mysterio…but chances are well get the beetle or leap frog.

By: Schindler

Schindler — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:01:19 +0000

Sad that Raimi will never get a chance to redeem himself. He ‘s got the potential to have really made the fourth one great and erase the 3rd movie from our memory. And I agree with Jon. You can’t reboot a movie that just came out less than a decade ago. I mean if you want to consider the Punisher sequel/reboot a success, sure go ahead then.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:36:16 +0000

This is pathetic.
Just really sad.

By: Slipstream

Slipstream — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:02:59 +0000

/picardfacepalm x infinity

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:29:13 +0000

Reboot the movies that deserve it. Of course, a Spider-Man 4 might have turned out as badly (if not worse) than 3.

Does Spider-Man have a shelf-life of 3 movies before people can’t figure out where to go with him next?

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:22:39 +0000

wow….were now rebooting movies not even a decade old….moronic. i hope it fails epically