The Ultimate Spiderman Reboot?
Tue, March 16, 2010 It could be. I’m afraid I’m a day late and a dollar short on this breaking news, but apparently one of our friends over at Latinoreview had the chance to sit down momentarily with Brian Michael Bendis, who, for those of you not following the Spiderman reboot, wrote Ultimate Spiderman.
It was speculated, and feared by some, from the beginning that the rebooted series would follow the storyline of the Ultimate books since director Marc Webb announced that his ideas for the film centered around Peter Parker staying in high school.
When asked about what direction the movie was going to take, Bendis, pointing at the volume 1 book of his own creation, simply said “From what I’ve heard, its going to be exactly like this”. For now, I’m going to take this with a grain of salt until I hear from someone that’s more involved with the film. If I were Bendis, I’d love for my book to be picked up for a movie, too.
Just by following some fan posts, I understand that there’s a fair amount of folks out there that are dead set against this type of storyline. Personally, having never read the books myself, I like the idea of a new spin on a great character. Besides, we’re rebooting a franchise that, until just, what, six weeks ago was still alive.
They did something similar with the animated Spectacular Spiderman, and it seemed to work very well. It could, in a perfect world, also set up some type of tie-in with all of the other Marvel Studios movies
Hopefully we’ll get some more news soon on this and I’ll let you guys know as soon as I hear it.
Reader Comments (1)
It would be really hard to say anything bad about Marvel right now, for the most part they've done a decent job of bringin a large porion of their catalog to the big screen.
Unlike DC who seems to drag everything out for years and has trouble green lighting projects, now mind you DC did give us most recently Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, but how long was it since that peice of shit B&R that they got their shit together and came out with Begins, and now were looking at four years between TDK and B3's most likely release date, this is a long time between sequals, they are lucky their most recent effort brought in over 1 billion. Where as look at Iron Man, 2008 and 2010.