Now that the improbably named director Marc Webb has been hired to reboot the Spider-Man film franchise, we're getting new details on what he plans for his proposed trilogy: namely, basing them on a rebooted Marvel comic series, Ultimate Spider-Man.
We're also learning that Sony is making a smaller movie ($80 million, compared with an estimated $260 million for Spider-Man 3) with an unknown actor to star (no Robert Pattinson or Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and James Vanderbilt (Zodiac) writing the script.
Here's how The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business blog reported it:
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 [previous director Sam] 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.
The first of the new Spidey movies is set to begin production this year.
Much as we like the Ultimate Spidey comics, the movies sounds less like Spider-Man and more like Twilight or early Smallville.
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