‘Spider-Man’ Reboot Details
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Yesterday, NYMag.com broke the story that (500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb was signed to direct the Spider-Man reboot. Although we knew who the director was, we didn’t know what direction the film would go. Today, Risky Business blogs shares some details on the reboot such as budget and possible storyline.
Webb, who has options on two sequels, will now tackle a Jamie Vanderbilt script that sees a “Spider-Man†movie that will look and feel very different from the big movies that went before it.
The plan for the movie is to be in the $80 million range and feature a cast of relative unknowns (so you can quash those Rob Pattinson or Gordon-Levitt rumors at this point). And the story will be pared down to center on a high school kid who is dealing with the knowledge that his uncle died even though the teen had the power to stop it.
The touchstone for the new movie will not be the 1960s comics, which were the inspiration behind the movies by Raimi, who grew on up on them, but rather this past decade’s “Ultimate Spider-Man†comics by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley where the villain-fighting took a back seat to the high school angst.
I guess fans of Ultimate Spider-Man comics will be very happy with this news. I’m not sure how I feel about the sound of the film being centered around teen angst. Does this mean we will see a darker more emotional Peter Parker like we saw in Spider-Man 3? I sure hope not.