Yesterday, Marc Webb was declared the new director of the new SPIDER-MAN movie which would be a reboot. Previous info said that the plot that screenwriter James Vanderbilt has prepared for us will not only be an origin story with Peter Parker back in High School but it will also be gritty and contemporary. Risky Business has learned that it will be based on the comic book ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN that apparently doesn’t focus too much on fighting crimes…
Webb, who has options on two sequels, will now tackle a Jamie Vanderbilt script that sees a “Spider-Man” movie that will look and feel very different from the big movies that went before it.
The plan for the movie is to be in the $80 million range and feature a cast of relative unknowns (so you can quash those Rob Pattinson or Gordon-Levitt rumors at this point). And the story will be pared down to center on a high school kid who is dealing with the knowledge that his uncle died even though the teen had the power to stop it.
The touchstone for the new movie will not be the 1960s comics, which were the inspiration behind the movies by Raimi, who grew on up on them, but rather this past decade’s “Ultimate Spider-Man” comics by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley where the villain-fighting took a back seat to the high school angst.
I’ve never read ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN but presenting teenage Parker with all his problems is what the Studio wants. Wiki says, the comic is about Parker the science whiz balancing “school, a job, a girlfriend, his family life with his widowed aunt May, and his activities as Spider-Man”
I take it most of that $80 Million budget will go to VFX. So who do you think they should cast as the new Peter Parker?
How much you wanna bet they’re knocking on Michael Cera‘s door right now? Ha!
