That's great and all but Disney doesn't own Efron.[/quote]
Disney owns Marvel. Or at least, Disney owns the controlling interest (51% minimum) in the Marvel film franchise (it cost them 4bil).
This is undeniably Sony's worst marketing move. Why reboot a franchise that's been so successful with three films? And in ten years, that's a pretty short timespan. Sure, you can try to argue this with the Batman or Hulk films, but this was a franchise that wasn't in the garbage. The Spider-Man films were pretty well respected, because of its superb casting, director, writing, and box office success.
Batman went into the garbage after Joel Schumacher made Batman and Robin, and Ang Lee's Hulk just wasn't successful. But the Spider-Man films (more so the first two, not so much the third) are some of the best comic book films to date. What Sony is doing is perhaps the most idiotic thing to do. Spider-Man 3 was one of the top grossing films of 2007, and one of the highest summer blockbusters of that year. I'd say that combined with the success of the previous two films is more than enough to give Raimi his own timeframe.
Why Sony dumped them just because they couldn't possibly get a film out before 2011 is straight up malarkey. And why would you want to market your next film towards the
Twilight crowd? Yes, the films are undeniably successful, and appealing to that crowd would bring in mass amounts of money. But the Spider-Man franchise has now followed the way of X-Men. Gone to waste. R.I.P. some of the best superhero films.
Overall, this new origins film is pointless, if you don't know Spider-Man's origins by now, please leave, you've had at least eight/nine years to learn that. Also, by 2012, the Twilight films will either be finished, or they will have lost a majority of their fan crowd, and something new will have taken its place. But I look to the bright side of things; Sam Raimi can go back to horror, and the old cast can go do whatever they want. I want something else along the lines of the Evil Dead trilogy or Drag Me to Diet Dr. Pepper to resurface.
Although there is rumors that J.K. Simmons might reprise his role as J. Jonah Jameson, that could make the film a little worthwhile. Of course, I won't pay to see this film. But the script for this new film has already been written. The focus of the new film is mainly more of Peter's high school years, and might possibly follow the Ultimate Spider-Man series; a high school Parker becoming Spider-Man and fighting villains all before college.
This is still really terrible news, as I would have loved to see Raimi's Spider-Man 4 and 5, considering they were to be tied together to pretty much end the series.[/hide][/quote]
Couldn't have said it better myself. Another sequel would suck, but it wouldn't suck as bad as Zac Efron will. The only reason he's good at his roles is because he only plays idiotic jocks with an inflated sense of self. Outside of roles like that, he'll sound like something out of an Uwe Boll film.
