The Amazing Spider-Man Sony & Paramount Possibly Merging

[American_Hobo]

Its kind of funny how people say changing a character's race deosnt matter as long as they get right actors.
Yeah then why dont they cast a black man as Spiderman, white person as Blade?
I really dont get why people say changing a character's race is ok thing to do.
Just because they are changing all the asian characters in video game movies to white?
I'm ok with some minor or supporting characters changing their race, cause I dont really care about those characters anyway, but major characters need not to be changed. It's just stupid.

 

[Sam Fisher]

And I don't know why people think it isn't. Honestly I would call that racist. I ask again, how does Kingpin or Liz Allien being black change the character? How does their skin color affect their personality?

 

[American_Hobo]

Like I said, I'm ok with some minor/supporting characters' race being changed.
Liz Allen - Never liked that character, so I dont care.
Kingpin - Should've been white, but since they couldnt find right "white" actors to fit the roll and best option was Michael Clark Duncan, I understand.
I just dont want some of the major characters' race getting changed.
Well I guess then next thing they'll do is cast white guy as Ryu in the next Street Fighter movie. Skin color doesnt matter as long as its personality stays,right?

 

[Sam Fisher]

 

[American_Hobo]

Hey my friend, youre not answering my question.
Would you be ok with all those changes?

 

[Sam Fisher]

I don't care about about Street Fighter so I couldn't give a rat's ass.



Skin color does not make a character. I couldn't give more of a crap if someone was black, white, brown, or whatever. As long as the character I know and love is there, that's all that matters.


Anyway, this thread is steadly derailing off topic.

 

[FaT_tONle]

I think the casting of MCD was more true to the comics than any white actor they could have brought in, since they deemed the size of the character the major sticking point, which made perfect sense to me. Had there been a white actor that big and that well known as MCD then it would have been a different story, or otherwise they'd need prosthetics and CGI up the ass to make a believable Kingpin. WIth the technology today maybe they could realistically pull it off. Back in 2003, it was a good hire. A damn good hire IMO.

 

[Minus Shock]

It's really more of the visual aesthetic.

Anyone can deny this all they want but after you read certain characters for years, or watch them in a cartoon or something you get used to seeing them one way. It's bad enough that most actors can't be as ridiculously ripped for me, but keeping the personality and losing the imagery is not enough for me. I mean if Captain America were drawn black originally, I wouldn't care, I'd be used to it. I'm used to him being white, it's how I see him in my head. That's not really racist is it? If they cast a white person as Luke Cage or Storm, people would flip out.

 

[HughJackFan420]

Like I said, I'm ok with some minor/supporting characters' race being changed.
Liz Allen - Never liked that character, so I dont care.
Kingpin - Should've been white, but since they couldnt find right "white" actors to fit the roll and best option was Michael Clark Duncan, I understand.
I just dont want some of the major characters' race getting changed.
Well I guess then next thing they'll do is cast white guy as Ryu in the next Street Fighter movie. Skin color doesnt matter as long as its personality stays,right?

it does matter i mean could u imagine a black Spider-Man? but besides a black Kingpin the reason why Daredevil flopped "ALSO" is b/c Ben Affleck and a horrible script just a terrible movie altogether. i'm not even gonna get into Bullseye and Elektra but one thing i did like about the movie was the chance to see another hero/heroine assist the main hero. wish we could've seen that in the Spider-Man series or in those to come. Blackcat would've been cool and they should've saved Daredevil for a Spidey flick to help him out. I would've preferred that then Green Goblin Jr.

 

[HughJackFan420]

It's really more of the visual aesthetic.

Anyone can deny this all they want but after you read certain characters for years, or watch them in a cartoon or something you get used to seeing them one way. It's bad enough that most actors can't be as ridiculously ripped for me, but keeping the personality and losing the imagery is not enough for me. I mean if Captain America were drawn black originally, I wouldn't care, I'd be used to it. I'm used to him being white, it's how I see him in my head. That's not really racist is it? If they cast a white person as Luke Cage or Storm, people would flip out.

my point exactly besides authenticity

 

[Spider-Who?]

i actually dug spidey being in the avengers for a while. since spidey is a loner, putting him in a "team" situation would be a cool character piece, not too mention he is kind of the "youngin" in the group, itd be cool to see how his smart ass handles it.

 

[mclay18]

Financial Times says that Paramount is in advance talks with Paramount and Fox to combine DVD production, distribution and back-office production to save money. They would continue to operate as separate entities, and maintain their own marketing and sales operations.

So no purported movie studio merger, just a home entertainment merger. If that happens, Paramount would start releasing DVD and Blu-ray discs with color artwork again, rather than the tacky silver-gray stuff we've been getting for the past 3 years.

 

[SpaceWay2009]

It's really more of the visual aesthetic.

Anyone can deny this all they want but after you read certain characters for years, or watch them in a cartoon or something you get used to seeing them one way. It's bad enough that most actors can't be as ridiculously ripped for me, but keeping the personality and losing the imagery is not enough for me. I mean if Captain America were drawn black originally, I wouldn't care, I'd be used to it. I'm used to him being white, it's how I see him in my head. That's not really racist is it? If they cast a white person as Luke Cage or Storm, people would flip out.

I agree. Same here.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

Spidey in an Avengers movie? Not the first one, no....but i wouldn't mind seeing an adaption of ASM Annual #3 up on the big screen for a sequel:

They wouldnt even need to hire a writer...Stan and John already have that covered.

 

[Sarg92]

Would this merger even allow crossovers?

Marvel Studios makes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers not Paramount Pictures. Paramount only market and distribute the films. Whereas Sony are the ones who have the rights to Spider-Man and they are the ones who make Spider-Man. Marvel Studios need the rights to the character to have him in their own films or Marvel and Sony can come to some sort of agreement where the character makes an appearance.

 

[Reikowolf]

This is all speculation but there are some things that need to happen to allow the licenses to be used in a cross over.

The merger would need to be a total merger, where in the two companies actually become one entity. Otherwise, the licensing agreement would need to exchange hands which seems unlikely.

Marvel Studios would need to come to an agreement in order to allow use rights of their characters. Sony legally owns the movie rights to Spider-Man, where Paramount only has the distribution rights to the other Marvel properties. Making it more likely for Spider-Man to show up in an Avengers movie than the other way around. (Sony is free to just allow this to happen where as Paramount and Marvel need to agree for the Avengers to be in a Spidey movie)

Most corporate mergers end in the two companies remaining seperate entities and sharing assets, or one company absorbing the other. Sony and Paramount are pretty big standing alone so it seems more likely that in the future we may see no change in logos or even a amalgamated logo

Sony/Paramount

In the instance that the two companies were to completely merge, it would call for a corporate restructuring which means that all production would come to a halt for at least a year until the companies reorganize into one entity.