Do your kids wear out those “Spider-Man” 1, 2 and 3 DVD’s at home? Do they totally love Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson and James Franco as Harry Osbourne?
That’s too bad, because those days are over.
In a surprising decision Monday afternoon, Sony Pictures has scrapped plans to do a “Spider-Man 4,” which had been in development for sometime, and decided to completely reboot the franchise. That means new Spidey, new director, new origin story, the works. The story was first broke by Deadline Hollywood, who has the full press release.
Fanboys online are already up in arms about the siutation but, as a parent, how are you kids going to feel about this? Will they understand that this is the same story with different actors? Will you take them to see this new film? Do you think they’ll care?
For an older generation of kids, those questions were probably answered in 2005 when Warner Brothers did the same thing to “Batman.” “Batman Begins” was essentially the exact same thing: a reboot of a series of four “Batman” movies that ran from 1989-1997. But those movies already had some continuity problems and only kept the same Batman for two films. Even then, “Begins” came out and confused a lot of people. Was this the same movie? Where was Nicholson’s Joker? Of course, “The Dark Knight” changed all that.
But the “Spider-Man” films had the same actors for all three (very successful) movies and only the last one had a lot of critical backlash. The director, Sam Raimi, even admitted it.
Let us know what you, and your kids think, about this decision.
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