May 29 2008Next Spider-Man Will Probably be from a Cameron Crowe Movie
The life of the Spider-Man franchise has been a lot like the life of a fruit. It began meagerly, green but full of potential, then ripened into a delicious maturity. But sadly, by the time we got to the cafeteria and opened our lunchbox, it was already spoiled, dark, soft, and full of superfluous villains and dancing. Time to toss it out. Except Sony, the weird kid at lunch who sits by himself, approaches: "Were you gonna throw that out? 'Cause I'll totally eat it; that's how I like them. I might even stretch this thing out to tomorrow's lunch, too."
What I'm saying is that because Spider-Man 3 made the most money in a weekend of anything ever, Sony seems pretty intent on making one or two more of these things. Fourth and fifth installments of the franchise are rumored to be in the early makings, and lending credibility to these claims is the ">new rumor that some names are already being mentioned to replace the departing Tobey Maguire: Patrick Fugit and Michael Angarano, both of whom played the lead at different ages in Almost Famous. Weird, huh? More Spider-Man casting rumors to come as Sony executives finish watching the Almost Famous DVD!
UPDATE: Yikes--already refuted! From IESB:
Head of Media Relations for Sony/Columbia Pictures Steve Elzer told the IESB today that the Fugit story is 100% false and added, "No one is being considered for the role but Tobey. Period."
So even if Spider-Man 4 is bad, it will also be familiarly so, I guess.
Reader Comments
1. bedot - May 29, 2008 12:19 PM
It's odd that instead of doing the logical follow up and showing the characters a couple years later as adult actors, they're doing reverse chronological order and making spiderman 8 years old
2. wendy - May 29, 2008 12:29 PM
That could be one way to keep the franchise fresh, that is do a jump in time to when the Parker and MJ are already married. Heck they ruined the time line by not having him date Gwen Stacy and then kill her off, don't get me started on how sad I was about them not doing that.
Never mind my dashed hopes about a secret wars movie, stupid wrong origin for the black costume.
3. Anthony - May 29, 2008 1:20 PM
Man, Fugit's not a bad choice at all....
Spidey 3 was terrible. With a good script, I'll give this one a shot.
4. Bizzy - May 29, 2008 1:54 PM
Fugit would have my 1000% backing to replace Tobey if he should decide not to do a fourth. What also has my 1000% backing is replacing Kirsten Dunst, even if she DOES decide to do the next one.
5. Phil - May 29, 2008 1:55 PM
So what if they make 5 movies? Haven't they been writing new Spider-Man stories for decades in the comics?
I say, make a "Marvel team up" film, make an Iron Man/Spider-man crossover flick.
6. James - May 29, 2008 2:49 PM
Thank goodness it's been debunked. I love Almost Famous, but I can't see either of those actors as Spiderman.
7. Praz - May 29, 2008 6:49 PM
Can't they just get the guy from Heroes? He looks exactly like Tobey Maguire, anyways.
#5 - Comics are supposed to be printed every month, but not movies.
8. Liz - June 1, 2008 12:42 AM
Tobey Macguire is an asshat. His John Travolta impersonation in the 3rd movie was cringe-worthy and I think he is half a sandwich short of a picnic. I'm just sayin'.
9. Reel World - June 1, 2008 11:56 PM
Crossovers are tricky due to which studio owns the rights to which character on screen. Granted, Marvel created all the characters, but whichever movie studio ponies up the loot gets the dibs on putting them on the big screen.
Hopefully with Marvel having created their own "Movie Studio" they will be able to alleviate the issue in the long run.....
Case in point: Daredevil, X-Men, F4, Elektra are Fox properties. Iron Man is Paramount, Spidey and Ghost Rider are Sony. Ironically, Warner has the rights for Superman AND Batman. (Forward thinking on their part perhaps?)
10. Cool - June 5, 2008 5:34 AM
Who the fuk is that new prick??? IT AINT THE SAME WITHOUT TOBEY!!!!