Garfield is Spiderman!

Tom84 said:
So does that mean no marvel reference at the start of the film? Not sure of the technical term but all the marvel films have it :confused:
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is like a different continuity any other thing in Marvel. It's basically all films that take place in the same setting, hence The Avengers being a cross over. These are all developed by Marvel Studios, who own the rights to the films. Interestingly, the rights for The Punisher have now reverted back to Marvel Studios and they plan to reboot that soon. They also want to develop some other characters for films too.

Where as Spider-Man will still retain the Marvel logo, but the rights are owned by Sony meaning that it takes place in its own self contained continuity. Still Marvel branded etc, but not related to any other film/series.
 
Random Guy said:
Comic book movies are generally very hit and miss. Being a huge Marvel fan (well a huge DC fan as well lol) it is nice to see a good movie based on the comics. Of the last few releases I have to say that Iron Man 2 was very disappointing (Scarlett sucked as Black Cat - not literally unfortunately), Hulk was very watchable....I think Spidey 3 was the last one I watched before that - and that was rubbish. The Dark Knight was amazing.

Regarding this new movie, Garfield looks like a huge wimp I am afraid, don't have high hopes for a reboot after hardly ten years since the first one. Money-grubbing swine. Hopefully I am going to be miraculously proved wrong :D
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He does look like a wimp. That's why he's perfect for Spider-Man.

I endorse this reboot because although Raimi made a couple of good films, it was never really the way Spider-Man should be. This film has a decent director on board and apparently has a decent script so it should turn out ok.
 
Woody__ said:
Where as Spider-Man will still retain the Marvel logo, but the rights are owned by Sony meaning that it takes place in its own self contained continuity. Still Marvel branded etc, but not related to any other film/series.
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Ah ok that makes sense :)
 
I am really worried about all Marvel movies.

I really liked Iron Man and Iron Man 2 was okay, but yeah could have been better.

I really liked the last Hulk movie, Norton did a great job and I thought the movie really brought to life some parts of the Hulk universe so to speak

Spider-man was terrible, I absolutely hated it and felt it more like the old 1990's Batman films. The last two movies seemed to get stuck in the first movies sucrose and just spiralled into cabaret and panto.

Wolverine Origins was GOD AWFUL and personally I dont see the fascination with Wolverine in the X-Men. He is one of an amazingly rich set of cast with powers and personalities so vast you could make a psychological thriller or a romantic comedy if you put some effort into it.

What bothers me is they seem to find a formula that sells then just stick with it until the franchise dies, then wait a while and reboot it again completely from scratch.
I want some thought and effort, not just overly heroic nonsense. Macho some of the characters are and some of the personalities are quite complex. What they need to do is take them from two dimensional characters into in some cases intelligent and deep people.

The problem is you can wrap any idiot in a blanket and call him awesome man and it seems to sell.
 
Clearly he doesn't give two ***** about his secret identity then! Just wandering around like that lol.

No idea why Sony are doing this, I can't imagine they will top the first two.
 
I heard ages ago that Sony had the rights to make 6 Spiderman films, so they presumably want to get their money's worth no matter how idiotic the pretence of the films is.
 
Wossi said:
It also looks like he external web shooters :D

Would be so cool if he did.
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The Andrew Garfield-led Spider-Man movie will return to the Marvel source material to feature Peter Parker building his own web-shooters.

The Sam Raimi-directed Spider-Man trilogy saw high-schooler Parker able to produce web fluid using his own body after getting bitten by a radioactive spider. In Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's original comic story, the character constructs his own mechanical wrist devices to fire web.

Sony Pictures' recently-released still of Andrew Garfield from the movie appeared to show metal shooters attached to the superhero's costume, sparking debate among comic book fans.

Garfield's Spider-Man co-star Emma Stone confirmed to MTV at last night's Golden Globes that Peter Parker will use "a device" to sling web.
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Wossi said:
It also looks like he external web shooters :D

Would be so cool if he did.
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The Outsiders star C. Thomas Howell has inadvertently revealed the identity of the main villain in next year's Spider-Man reboot.

During a Retroradio podcast, the actor discussed his supporting role in The Amazing Spider-Man, before confirming that The Lizard will indeed be the film's primary antagonist.

"I play a construction worker whose son is caught in the middle of a battle between The Lizard and Spider-Man on the Manhattan bridge," Howell revealed. "Spider-Man helps me get my son back from this perilous situation."

The actor also claimed that the film will focus more on the public's fear and mistrust of Spider-Man than Sam Raimi's original trilogy did.

"Part of the story is the nation thinks he might be a bad guy," Howell explained. "Spider-Man is kind of hurting. I help him when all of the other people won't."

The inclusion of The Lizard in Marc Webb's reboot has been rumoured ever since Rhys Ifans was cast in an unknown role last year, but Sony have yet to make an official announcement regarding the film's villain.

The Lizard, a long-running enemy of Spider-Man in the comic book series, was created when Peter Parker's lecturer Dr Curt Connors injected himself with reptile DNA in an attempt to regrow a lost limb, but instead ends up turning himself into a mindless monster.

The Amazing Spider-Man is scheduled to be released in 3D on July 3, 2012.
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The Lizard.... Will be interesting to see how they adapt him to the big screen
 
While we're on the subject of Marvel tie-ins, does anyone know if Stan Lee has a clause in the contract that allows him to be in every Marvel superhero film? Crossed my mind when I saw his inevitable walk-on in Iron Man 2.

Of course, it could just be that the industry's being nice - he is the co-creator of Spider Man, after all. And the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Daredevil, Doctor Strange...
 
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I never realised how much Captain America looks like the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four.
 
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