Spider-Man
4 (2012)
Starring: TBA
Director: Marc Webb
U.S. Opening Date: TBA 2012
THEY SAY
Peter Parker is going back to high school when the next
Spider-Man hits theaters in the summer of 2012.
Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios announced they are
moving forward with a film based on a script by James Vanderbilt that
focuses on a teenager grappling with both contemporary human problems and
amazing super-human crises.
According to Risky Business Blog the new movie will be
based the Ultimate Spider-Man comics by Brian Michael Bendis and
Mark Bagley instead of the original 1960s Stan Lee comics.
The new chapter in the
Spider-Man franchise produced by Columbia, Marvel Studios and Avi Arad
and Laura Ziskin, will have a new cast and filmmaking team. Spider-Man
4 was to have been released in 2011, but had not yet gone into
production.
“Now everything begins anew,” said Matt Tolmach, president of Columbia Pictures, who has
served as the studio’s chief production executive since the beginning of
the franchise.
(500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb will
direct the Spider-man reboot.
No one has been cast as Spider-man / Peter Parker yet,
but the word is that the film-makers are looking to cast an unknown.
WE SAY
So there you have it: the franchise is going to reboot
as as they say in Hollywood-ese. Maguire is no longer Spider-man, Sam
Raimi will probably move on to the World of
Warcraft movie and Spider-man is going all High School Musical
- but without the songs of course . . .
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