When I heard the radio DJ going on about the Spider Man franchise being rebooted I thought he had lost his mind. Unfortunately, when I arrived home the news was proved to be true. Yesterday Sony released a statement saying that Spider Man 4 has been scrapped, and the story would be started again in 2012.
This is very upsetting news. It’s not that I particularly like Sam Raimi or Tobey MaGuire, but Sony has decided to retell a story that they just told a few years ago. Normally reboots take around twenty years to show up, unless the last reboot was a total flop. Spider Man has had huge success over the last few years, with audiences and critics alike, so there’s no reason to be restarting the series now.
The simple fact of the matter is they couldn’t come up with a decent script for Spider Man 4. Now I’m all for studios making lot’s of money if they give us great movies, but I worry that they couldn’t come up with a decent story for a forth movie. The third Spidey movie already had a poor script, so what makes them think that restarting the franchise will help in that department?
If you’re also left scratching your head at the absurdity of it all, scratch no longer. It seems that Sony has to make a Spider Man movie every few years or it will loose the rights to the franchise. This would give the rights back to Marvel, who is now owned by Disney. After the Iron Man movie, I’m beginning to think that wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Unfortunately Sony isn’t worried about the viewers, just the cash that they bring in.
If everything goes as planned and they do release the reboot in 2012, most likely in the more expensive 3D, the movie will be under huge scrutiny. If anything, Sony is going to need to work very hard to ensure that the movie is better than their original or they may just loose their biggest asset.
Im very upset spidey. enough said