How much Spider-Man is too much? Apparently there can never be enough. Marvel is busy rebooting the live action character for their franchise, but don’t think Sony is sitting around and watching one of their valuable properties being handled by someone else. They’re still free to try their own hand at the character and it looks like they really want the younger set to get on board with the web slinger.
Hollywood’s favorite franchise heroes, Phil Lord and Chris Miller, will produce and write the treatment for an animated Spider-Man film for Sony, that will hit cinemas on July 20, 2018 (that’s one year after Marvel’s scheduled, live action "The Spectacular Spider-Man"). This will be a standalone effort and not part of the Marvel universe.
Lord and Miller — who have their fingers in the Lego franchise, "22 Jump Street" series, and are working on "The Flash" — are still deciding whether or not they’ll direct this new ‘Spider-Man,’ but clearly they’ve got plenty of options. But it should be said that of any comic character, Spider-Man seems particularly suited to their brand of off-beat humor.
But is this all too much? How many different versions of Spider-Man do we need at once in cinemas? It would appear that Sony is confident this can work, but let us know how you feel below. [The Wrap]
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Agreed. Stop doing origin stories. The comics fans already know them, and the non-comics fans don\’t especially care. Audiences care more about what the superhero does in the movie as they watch it; they don\’t need a life history.
This is good news, but I still want Andrew Garfield\’s franchise to continue!
I\’ll be 25 in 2018. Which means that if I\’m bothered to see these two spideys, I will have seen the same "I got bitten by a spider, great powers and responsibilities, oh god uncle ben" story four times. Spider man is hands down the most promising superhero, because of his movement in relation to this whole 3d jazz, and I\’ve felt since I first heard about the Garfield version, that in the right hands, Spindey could be so much fun. But the thing is, yeah, that\’s gonna be too much, I\’m not seeing the same story all over again just for a chance to see it done right. Lord and Miller just might bring some life to the character, but since the Spectacular version seems to be aimed at the same "white skinny boy is in so much pain, but the bam, same exact twists we\’ve seen a billion times", many will probably be uninterested even in these two.