The Amazing Spider-Man If reboot went in a differnet direction

[Stunt_Indy]

What would you guys like to see?

Me personally, I always liked it when Pete was in his mid 20's. Being a adult on his own just added a lot of drama. The relationships he had, the problems with balancing work, love and being Spider-Man. He came into his own as a man, become attractive to woman and yet was still the lovable loser. I even liked the stuff when he was a TA in college for ESU. It just opens up soo many more possiblites.

What do you guys think?

 

[Oscorp]

The only reason I'm not sure about this all teenage-thing is that I have alot of doubt on those young teenage actors out there to manage to make a great Peter Parker and Spider-Man personality. I'd probably prefer the new series to set off with Peter Parker being something like 20 years old, already being Spider-Man.

 

[Oscorp]

sorry dbl post

 

[©KAW]

They have about as much chance as 30 something Peter/Spidey we got, who was far from Spidey/Peter personality. It's all in the script and directing.

 

[david icke]

They have about as much chance as 30 something Peter/Spidey we got, who was far from Spidey/Peter personality. It's all in the script and directing.

Regardless of how you feel the personality was portrayed, that was not a 30 something PP/SM, the trilogy started when he was in high school, and only spanned a couple of years. McGuire looks young for his age, there are plenty of guys who are in their twenties who don't look any younger than McGuire did in those films.


Yeah, when Hollywood sets a movie in high school there is the obligatory love story, I stuggle to think of an exception to this. So, that will most probably play into the plot as much as it did in the Raimi movies.
Spider-man comics always had that element of romance constantly throughout, Hollywood loves a good romance as couples going to the movies make up a large percentage of the ticket sales....whatyagonna do? It will surprise me if a romance does not take up as much time in the flick as it did in SM1, maybe someone can time them both with a stopwatch when the re-boot is released, lol.
anyway, despite this most probable plot leaning, I'm looking forward to spending a whole movie with High school Spider-man. I loved the HS part of SM1, and actually enjoyed the first half of the movie the most, it felt like the Spider-man from the early books.
edit: like that Mark Miller quote i postsed up in another thread, he was very like the Ditko SM, partly because you did worry about him throughout the movie.
I just needed another half hour, a major Goblin ariel battle, some more quips and a more pronounced Spider-man attitude, and it would have felt like the whole deal to me.
But they did a whole lot better than most would have I think, and thankfully they delayed and upscaled the movie's production time to make it more epic.
so, that might be a problem with the re-boot if they are rushing into things, I just hope they give it an equally long production time as SM1, so we can get a movie just as epic.

I have not read the ultimate books, but I imagine they have taken a lot from the Lee/Ditko HS years as folk have said the character of PP/SM at least is accurate to the source and recognisable.
So if they just get the balance right with it being a young kid, but, y'know still feeling like Spider-man, not just any old wise-cracking smartass kid.
that is actually a fear, all this talk of quips etc, it still has to be Spider-man, there are any number of 'McBain'isms used in movies to spike the action scenes with humour, let's just hope Spider-man's penchant in this area does not become as pedestrain as those.

I don't know about a second movie set in high school I would have him move into the city in the second one, but I have the feeling they will sit him in highschool again.

 

[©KAW]

The point is, you can have a 30 year old or an 18 year old (good actors) playing the same character and neither of them could do the character justice. All I'm saying is age means nothing, sadly enough, even if you're a good actor it means nothing (as I thought Maguire was a good actor). But if the character at hand isn't in the script and the director doesn't have a feel of what said character should be and how he/she should be portrayed, the age and one's skills as an actor is moot.

Perhaps the second movie could have him move on to his first year of college, sounds like a sound idea.

 

[zeptron]

Only the first movie should have Peter in high school and as the series goes on he grows and matures into his 30s. It is called Spider-MAN.

 

[david icke]

The point is, you can have a 30 year old or an 18 year old (good actors) playing the same character and neither of them could do the character justice. All I'm saying is age means nothing, sadly enough, even if you're a good actor it means nothing (as I thought Maguire was a good actor). But if the character at hand isn't in the script and the director doesn't have a feel of what said character should be and how he/she should be portrayed, the age and one's skills as an actor is moot.

Ok, but that wasn't too clear from the way you put it in your first post as you said '30something PP/SM' instead of '30something actor'. folk were talking about what age they'd want the re-boot to cover, so it seemed you were responding to that the way you put it.

Yeah, have him graduate high school at the end of the 1st movie.
How much high school are we actually going to see? It might not make that much of a difference to the movie from Raimi's SM1, if he's farting about at the Bugle, Aunt May's, in the center of NY as Spider-man. In the books we'd get maybe a page or two of him at high school and the rest in central NY, with exceptions like the Living Brain and the 1st Sandman set in the actual school.
With SM1, we did not actually see him at college, just a reference, so when SM2 kicked in and we saw him at college for the first time, it felt like he was just starting college in SM2. They could feel kind of similar in time progression to Raimi's, just with a couple of extra highschool scenes in the latter half of the 1st movie.

edit: I mean, I can only go by the 616 highschool issues, I have not read ultimate sm, but there is only so much they can fit into a 2hr movie, regardless of how much drama is set in highschool in Ultimate SM.