Flash Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 For weeks we've been covering the ongoing fight between Sam Raimi and Sony over the fate of Spider-Man 4, and now it's all been decided thanks to a stunning move on Sony's part: they've scrapped the movie entirely. Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Sam Raimi told the studio today he wouldn't be able to complete the film on their terms, and rather than replacing Raimi, the studio decided to cancel the project outright. Instead they'll be moving forward with a reboot of the franchise, based on a script by Jamie Vanderbilt, who wrote the screenplay for David Fincher's Zodiac, oddly enough. The entire original cast, including Tobey Maguire, is out, and apparently Maguire isn't that upset to see the franchise go: "He's made 3 great Spider-Man movies. He's done really well. But he's the kind of guy who, if Sam wanted to go forward, would have been there for Sam and the studio. Absolutely." There's no official word from Sony beyond one very short tweet: "Spider-Man: Summer 2012: Peter Parker is going back to high school when the next Spider-Man hits theaters in the summer of 2012." It's stunning to see a project this gigantic fall apart this way, especially after weeks of very public negotiations about the franchise's future and what seemed to be Sam Raimi's continued passion for the project. There's no telling how good an idea Spider-Man 4 really would have been, but I'm really not sure about a full franchise reboot. I'm sure we'll be writing about this plenty in the weeks to come, but right off the bat, the notion of rebooting a hugely successful franchise not even 10 years after the first film debuted is, uh, questionable at best. We'll bring you more news as it comes in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdog17k Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 It's weird because this franchise was pretty successful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Check my Stats Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 So wait, they are starting the story over again....? Like from Spiderman 1? Or they are just making #4 with an entirely different group of people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobe24 Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 Starting from spiderman 1.. which is kind of weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaliCurbStomppa Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 Yea its dumb. First 3 are so good and idk why they wanna start all over. It could hurt the movie overall when it comes out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dash Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 Dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdog17k Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 (edited) Yea its dumb. First 3 are so good and idk why they wanna start all over. It could hurt the movie overall when it comes out The third kinda sucked, imo. Second was by far the best, the first was solid. I'm not sure who they are gonna approach to do the reboot? But it sounds like they are trying to go darker, not sure if it will be a good thing. Edited January 12, 2010 by bigdog17k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mav4life Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 The Spiderman series was sooo different from all the recent superhero movies, such as iron man and dark knight, so maybe they're going to try and make the franchise similar to these newer movies. I can't really picture anyone but mcguire playing spiderman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reno Posted January 13, 2010 Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 Good, I would ditch the whole deal after thatterrible third movie anyway. The 20 min emo scene deserves the whole crew to be canned, and not to add they completely missed a huge opporunity with venom in that last film. Its strange that they want to reboot the franchise so soon, but as long as its better ill be happy. The Spiderman movies always seemed a bit amateur to me anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Tzu Posted January 13, 2010 Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 I'm surprised ... I was expecting a 4th one coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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