Showing posts with label Spider-Man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spider-Man. Show all posts

Monday, 6 July 2015

New Spider-Man will be like a John Hughes movie

Marvel boss Kevin Feige has the premise of the upcoming Spider-Man movie that will take place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He describes it as being "a John Hughes movie". His motive for this comment is due to the fact that it takes place largely while Peter Parker is still in high school. Well, as you all know that we love our John Hughes movies here at the blog. So, we can only guess at which movie it will be like. Will it be The Breakfast Club with Peter sitting around in detention with Mary Jane, Flash Thompson and Harry Osborne? Or will he chase around Gwen Stacey in a reverse Sixteen Candles? We all know it won't be at all like Ferris Bueller's Day Off because Peter Parker is nowhere near as cool as Ferris.

And since we didn't talk about the casting when it happened, I suppose it's high time I raised my concerns with Tom Holland. It seems to me that with each iteration of Spider-Man, the studios are trying to make Peter Parker cooler and cooler while missing the point of what the character represents. If you were a "cool" kid growing up, you probably wanted to be Iron Man or Captain America or Wolverine, if you were slightly rebellious, smoked and wore leather jackets. The whole idea of Spider-Man is that as soon he put on the mask he transformed from a nerdy, shy teenager into a witty superhero, thus becoming a role model for anyone with social anxiety. Tom Holland has been in a handful of movies, including Locke and The Impossible and I doubt will ever be able to match Tobey Maguire's level of geekiness.

The next revelation from Feige is that he will come up against a villain who has yet to be seen in the movies. Now there are only a handful of major villains who haven't shown up in the movies that have been made up to now. They are Chameleon, Mysterio, Vulture, Scorpion and Kraven the Hunter. Anything further than those and you risk losing people who aren't all that familiar with the comics. Personally, I'd be happy with Mysterio, but that might be a boring movie.

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Spider-Man Is An Official Part Of The Marvel Cinematic Universe



Unless you are completely up to date with the politics of Hollywood's studio system, you may not be fully aware of who owns the rights to particular characters. Marvel Studios is in control of most of it's own intellectual properties, Iron Man, Captain America, et al.

But what it doesn't own (cinematically speaking) are some of it's more popular characters, Spider-Man being the important one here (the web-head is currently owned by Sony). What this generally means is that he is unable to appear in other movies featuring Marvel characters, like his good friends The Avengers.

Today, however, a historic decision to share the character between studios has been made. This means that Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios' producer will get on board for the next Amazing Spider-Man movie due it 2017. It also means that Spidey will appear in a Marvel movie before then, with titles like Captain America: Civil War or Doctor Strange, being the film he will be in.

If only the X-Men could be brought in on it all.
Jasper Roberts Consulting - Widget