Tuesday we found out that Columbia Pictures has pulled the plug on “Spider Man 4″ and will instead make a younger, cheaper installment of the superhero franchise. Star Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi, will no longer be involved in the franchise as Columbia moves forward with a high school-aged Peter Parker, which will be coming out in summer 2012.
Now at first my thought was: “Dammit! Ross was right!” If you had listen to a couple of our past shows Ross and I got in a couple heated argument when Disney bought Marvel last Fall. And the big issue that we talked about was the Disney would be creating younger, cheaper, and cheesier franchise for our favorite super heroes.
But after doing some research I found that Disney and Marvel aren’t the ones to blame. So hold on to your seat folks it’s gonna be a bumpy ride… the reason behind the already failed movie with some low budget punk of an actor that’s only other acting career was probably in some juice commercial is in production is that Columbia needs to continue actively developing “Spider Man” films or else the property will revert back to Disney and Marvel. The new untitled Spider Man film will center on the web-slinging mother fucker as he grapples with both human problems like who he’s gonna go to prom with and amazing super-human crises like huge piles of shit left from Rhino’s hay day. Columbia stated that “it’s a rare opportunity to make history once again with this franchise. We’re very excited about the creative possibilities that come from returning to Peter’s roots.”
Sound’s like Bull Shit to me. The only reason Columbia is doing this is to create a profit on a low budget film that’ll have less of a budget that some Tuesday night ABC “Made of TV” film. Columbia is going to ruin a great franchise, we all know Spider-Man 3′s story sucked, but we were getting somewhere. Don’t get me wrong I love Ultimate Spider-Man comic which focuses on Peter in High School, but Brian Bendis knew what to do and how to retell Spidey’s story and my fear is fans will never see Shocker, Scorpion, or Lizard on the big screen. We’ll be using the same four enemies over again and again.
Columbia Pictures is ruining one of the best Superhero movie franchises out there, and there’s nothing we can do about it.
