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

[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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