Increased âseriousness and relatabilityâ promised
By The Amazing Joel MacKenzie-Man, Chief Rehashed Garbage Correspondent
The revamping of comic book-inspired movies is not new, as The Incredible Hulk, Superman, Batman, and, just recently, Spider-Man have all had movie series created and re-created. But movie studios are currently looking at revamping revamps, one of which will be a new Spider-Man franchise to be released in two years.
This announcement follows hardly a month after the release of the first movie in the current Spider-Man revamp, The Amazing Spider-Man.
âWith The Amazing Spider-Man, we really wanted a serious, real-looking, special effect-laden film,â reads an online post from John Gorgas, head of PR at Columbia Pictures. The film accomplished just that, he says, greatly surpassing those elements in the original Spider-Man movie series (2002â2007).
The post continues, âWeâre especially excited about the current progress of special effects.â He mentions a CGI chair that will appear in the film with no discernable difference from other, real chairs around it. âWeâve reached that point.â
His online announcement cites increasing viewer interest in âgeneral seriousnessâ and North Americansâ âgeneral impatience,â and promises a new Spider-Man movie to be released late 2014. This time around, viewers will see another reinterpretation of the humble beginnings of Spider-Man, this time in elementary school. The film will focus on Peter Parkerâs adventures in the first grade, and will deal with, according to Gorgas, âjust really seriousâ events in the characterâs life, including, âthe death of his parents, his relationship with regular spiders, the origin of his trademark glasses, and probably the deaths of some other people.â When pressed for further details, he refused to elaborate: âYouâll just have to wait, and pay, and see.â
[quote style=”boxed”]Columbiaâs PR mentioned a CGI chair that will appear in the film with no discernable difference from other, real chairs around it. âWeâve reached that point.[/quote]
Other series lined up to be made more serious and more special effect-laden include Superman, The Fantastic Four, Watchmen (which is to be split into three instalments and add new background stories to every main character and several very small characters, and which promises to increase Alan Mooreâs reclusion), and probably Batman.
A new Superman series revamp is scheduled for five years after the release of this current Superman revamp, to include a main actor who is expected to be born sometime early in August. âI think heâs coming sooner, though,â predicts Emma Kimberland, mother of the unborn actor. âThe last two were early,â she says, referring to two of her four other children, all of whom have starred in made-for-television films and have never gone to school.
New adjectives placed in the tentative titles in front of main charactersâ names, released by Columbia and Warner Bros., hint at possible themes in the upcoming films. Some adjectives include âSpectacular,â âReally Spectacular,â âHardened,â âAwesome,â âRetired,â âStill,â âExotic,â and âSubsequent.â
During a phone interview, when asked if special effects and increasingly serious situations could replace clever writing and talented, hard-working actors, Gorgas offered âfree tickets to the next Green Lantern revamp for the first person who accurately predicts the filmâs main enemy.â He also hinted that the enemy would probably be a revamp of an enemy from a previous superhero film, âwith a more serious twist.â