World Could a live action Spider-Man TV show be done in the 2010s?

[Spooderman]

With Marvel making like a dozen TV shows based on ground level superheroes, would it be possible for them to make a Spider-Man one (taking place in Earth-199999)?

They'd probably have to use other ground level villains like Kingpin, Hammerhead, the Enforcers, Crime-Master, and Big Man, although they could show villains before they were villains like Norman Osborn and Otto Octavius. However, Spider-Man is famous for jumping and swinging from building to building which would require a lot of money. I haven't seen too much of AoS, but it appears to use special effects.

I haven't seen the 70s show or the Japanese one, but if they worked, then a 2010s Spidey show could probably work as well, since SFX has gotten better. But maybe it hasn't gotten that good.

Anyhow what do you all think?

 

[Picard Sisko]

I could see it happening in the late 2020s or early 2030s.

 

[Venom75]

I'd love to see it. But money,I would think,would be the biggest problem. I don't know how you can show Spidey doing all these amazing things as well as villains like Goblin,Venom and Ock without spending a ton of money on effects.

 

[Lord]

It can be done, when it comes to plot, Spider-Man would actually work better on tv, Dock Ock could work if you left his tentacles for special ocasions. Something episodic but with a gradual storyline is probably the best way to go.

 

[Picard Sisko]

Spider-Man was originally conceived as a comic book series, so I agree that he could work better on television story-wise. There are plenty of villains that wouldn't require a lot of special effects (e.g. Kingpin, tombstone, chameleon, the tinkerer, hammerhead, and so on). Maybe they can save the bigger villains for the season finales. For instance, Norman Osborn is a common recurring character, but by the season's end, he turns into the Goblin and fights Spider-Man. For budget reasons, they could focus on more hand-to-hand combat as opposed to aerial fights, sort of like the final battle in SM1.

 

[UltimateWebhead]

Absolutely. Just look at the various animated shows for examples as to how well they are able to portray Spider-man and his story. Built around a series is the best way to retell the comics because they too are built on a series. The biggest detractor for having a live-action Spidey tv series, as others have said, is the budget. The cgi would be costly. Not every episode has to feature these big cgi productions but they'd have to have some kind of swinging shot for each episode, I would think. Maybe they could do a lot of practical swinging stuff like the rigs they set up for some shots in ASM. Still though I think it would be a costly venture and as a studio they'd be looking at the margins. What's the cost to benefit ratio? Would a live-action show be profitable? At any rate, with the current plans for the movies and spanning something like 6 films, I don't see a TV series popping up until maybe sometime in the 2020s.

 

[Picard Sisko]

They would probably have to resort to recycling the same shots of Spider-Man swinging with slight modifications. That's what they did for the MTV CGI series.

 

[Lord]

About Green Goblin, i wonder if they would go with the Ultimate route of us seeing Normal transforming, or if they would go with the classic idea of his identity remaining a secret for a good part of the season. I agree about setting up the major foes as big bad, i imagine something like:
Season 1: Dock Ock, who maybe assembles the Sinister Six
Season 2: Green Goblin
Season 3: Kingpin
Season 4: Probably not have a fixed big bad, maybe the Lizard as final boss
Season 5: GG culminating in the Death of Gwen Stacy

My guess is that besides Ultimate Spider-Man, the tv shows and the movies, it would more or less follow the run of Amazing Spider-man comics, first season taking from the first 28 issues, and every Season taking around 25 issues. Like, Season 2 would be from 29 to 50, ending with Peter seemingly giving up from his life as Spider-Man, and so on.

Spider-Man and X-Men are franchises with a lot of live-action tv potencial, but due to the difficulty of such a thing happening because of rights issues and since it we can't have a different universe with the same characters on cinema and tv, i guess it will never happen.

 

[Picard Sisko]

Well I wouldn't say "never," but it definitely isn't happening anytime soon. Sooner or later, Sony is going to have to stop making Spider-Man films. Possibly because the Spider-Man franchise will stop making enough money to keep the company in business. So I'd say maybe in the 2020s or 2030s we COULD see a Spider-Man live-action series.