Reboot is the watchword

[zouzounaki]

Right after it was announced (and, yes, I mean almost immediately after) that John Malkovitch was signed on to play Vulture in "Spider-Man 4", Sony dropped a bomb by announcing that they were completely rebooting the franchise, scrapping any and all plans for SM4.

Well, fuck. At the moment, I'm so pissed at Marvel, and thinking that Iron Man is not the brave pioneering film for the fledgling film company, but an anomaly that sort of happened independent of them fucking around. I'm even sick of the word 'reboot.' And, get this: supposedly the huge fallout was over trying to force Raimi to put Carnage in the film. Bzuh?! After what happened with Venom they didn't learn their lesson?! Well, there have been rumors of a reboot since before SM4 was announced, so I'm thinking it's just the way the company had wanted to go in the first place. Still, so close. Sighs.

Peace, Ghani

Comments

[lastwordslinger.livejournal.com]

It's a total joke, isn't it? I mean, it hasn't even been that long since the first movie came out! Something like the original Star Trek, that is 40+ years old, I get. But this is just too soon. Either they needed to fix their issues with the current series or just stop for a while until a reboot might actually make sense. I'd rather wait than have them churn out another movie with Spidey fighting the Green Goblin that just leaves me going, "didn't we do this already?" O_O

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

And to think, they'd already cast the damned thing! How awesome would Malkovitch have been as Vulture?! And, alas, Curt Connors will never come to Lizard now, at least not poor Dylan Baker, who patiently waited through two movies.

I told Ann that Marvel really just needs to hire some sane fans to tell them to stop fucking around, because I could tell them that all of this is crap. Don't even get me started on Singer returning to X-Men to direct First Class and completely change the premise from comic to screen so it's about Xavier and, sighs, Magneto (again).

And they wonder why Wolverine did well when it was a simple showcase for something they already had that was popular. Morons.

[ioanite.livejournal.com]

Marvel's going nuts over reboots. You think rebooting Spider-man is bad? They're apparently rebooting Fantastic Four as well. The first film came out in 2005. Seriously, Marvel? The films were THAT bad?

Spider-man getting rebooted is a bit more of a shock, though. It seemed pretty stable, even if the third film was weaker than the others. God knows where they're going with this.

[ghanistarkiller.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the reboots of Incredible Hulk (which didn't do nearly as well as the alleged failure of a first one) and the third attempt at a Punisher movie that has already been. Fantastic Four and Ghost Rider are on the horizon and now Spidey falls victim as well. Honestly? I have a theory that now that they have their own movie company they want to reclaim all their properties and produce them themselves, you know?

And, you know, look at Superman Returns: when a franchise is really beloved, sometimes even the passage of time can't really overcome a reboot. Sighs.

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