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Amazing Spider-Man
A 1-hour weekly drama about the world of Spider-Man with an ensemble cast and controversial storylines punctuated by superhuman action with a budget comparable to LOST, Heroes or Smallville. It follows Peter Parker, his friends, family and enemies from youth to adulthood, exploring the origins of his diabolical villains, and the relationships that define who Spider-Man is.
Starring Cast for Season 1:
Eugene "Flash" Thompson
Gloria Grant
Gwen Stacy
Harry Osborn
Hobert Brown
Liz Allen
Mary Jane Watson
May Reilly
Norman Osborn
Peter Parker
Supporting/Recurring Cast:
Cassandra Webb
J. Jonah Jameson
Cpt George Stacy
Character Write ups:
Mary Jane Watson
She's our wild child. She's got more than her fair share of demons and she fights like hell to keep them off of her. A consumate risk taker, party animal, class clown and life of the party, Mary Jane is inemitable, and totally up for the ride of her life. MJ lives down the street from Peter. Her initial storyline centers on her abusive father and dying mother. She's the crazy one.
Gwen Stacy
She's our girl next door. She's well to do, talented, accomplished, immensely intelligent and unbearably shy and self-doubting. She often plays foil to MJ's schemes, and that's why its so bitter when Peter/Spider-Man comes between them. Her initial storyline centers on overachievement addiction/burnout and the death of her father. She's the Smart One.
Harry Osborn
The rich kid, elitist, snobbish, into himself and too cool for anyone else. Harry carries a tough shell, but has a number of crippling insecurities inside. He's a broken boy, growing into a broken man. His initial storyline centers on what's wrong with Oscorp and how he spends, and misspends his finances.
Hobie Brown
The scrappy, the one that gets beaten up on the most often, and comes out a winner in the end. He's the dark horse of the group, and the most ambitious and story propelling before Spider-Man becomes a force to be reckoned with. He's the schemer and dreamer of the group, and his initial storyline centers on the exploits of the Prowler, the influence of the Kingpin and his development into a young power player.
Flash Thompson
The requisite *******. He's got a good side to him, but he's mostly a jerk, and most caught up in his image. He's friends with Harry Osborn mostly. His main storyline involves the balance in the school, and the quests of Cassandra Webb.
Liz Allen
A typical glamor girl, into all the latest, talks too much too often, and generally can be very annoying, and is often too busy to pay attention to some potentially important facts. She's the pretty one. Her main storylines involve hiding her mutancy and competing for Queen Bee-ness with Mary Jane Watson.
Gloria Grant
The earth child in the group, very poetic, artistic, and such. The old soul in the group, the wise one who doesn't get in over her head too often, but is very passionate about family, god and the people close to him. Can be a bit flippant though. Her main storylines involve being a journalist and caring for her mother.
May Parker
The older woman is about business, and a very capable worker for the city. Making a way for herself without her husband has been hard, but she hides behind a mix of stern mother and doting grandmother. Her main storyline involves grief therapy and new potential love.
Peter Parker, Spider-Man
The quiet withdrawn guy is very sheepish, and pitiably inhibited. He keeps to himself and doesn't make friends very well at all. When he wears the mask though, he becomes strangely uninhibited. His main storyline involves dealing with his powers and combating the villains that appear to bend the world to their desires.
Norman Osborn
A business man among men. Stalwart, resolute, to the point, suave and smooth as a snake. No one trusts him. No one dares offend him. His R&D contract and competitors are the greatest on the planet, and his super soldier program is fearsome. A family man, truly, encourages his son. His main storyline involves his defense contract and descent into insanity.
Captain George Stacy
A career policeman who makes friends with May Parker while saving her life. He's a classic but tired policeman, middle-aged, able, swift and proud of his only daughter, a genius. He makes Captain after being detective and is put on the cases involving the Green Goblin, his main storyline, though he also has a subplot involving being overprotective of his daughter.
Cassandra Webb
A college professor and former espionage agent. She gains a great interest in Peter Parker and even transfers to his school to be a guidance counselor to investigate the phenomenon of his life further. Main storyline involves SHIELD trying to get her out of retirement and instructing Peter. She becomes main cast after George Stacy dies at the end of the season.
J. Jonah Jameson
A talented and dedicated news reporter who has fallen on tough times because of a tough life and the death of his wife. Miserable and bitter, Jameson shamelessly takes out his anger on the rest of the world, and find targets easily, except for Spider-Man, whom he cannot quite nail down. Main storyline involves grieving process and the startup of the Daily Bugle.
Special Effects Notes
Well most of the effects are pretty cheap, wall crawling and the composite scenes for wall clinging conversations are no big deal, and a litte slick editing can allow Spidey to jump from wall to wall, dodging as needed for frenetic action. Some wire-fu here or there for the special jumps once or twice per episode. The key is the web swinging through the city, which would have to be mostly, or completely CGI. Fortunately, the costume (lack of flesh) and the city (stone and glass blocks) can make that a relatively affordable project, especially if you have a 'vocabulary' that is composited to make the travel scenes, and not just one, or multiple, static scenes.
Casting Notes
You want people who capture the youth of these characters, so that they they can truly 'grow up' over the run of the show, both metaphorically and in reality. You don't want to skew to young that it seems odd, at the same time, you don't want to live in the 80s where 15 year olds can't get pregnant either. Casting Range for the teens should be 16-19 years of age, leaning younger for Peter and Gwen and older for Harry and MJ.
Costume and Villain Design
Villain design would tend towards 616 with small changes to make the incredible ones slightly more plausible. A Halloween origin for the Green Goblin costume, for instance. S1 Villains would include Vulture, Chameleon, Kraven the Hunter and Green Goblin, with other minor one-episode villains and seeds planted for other supervillains along the way.
Pacing and Mythos
Villains would play out over 6-10 episodes, often overlapping and intertwining and building up towards the final villain who is the main storyline for the second half of the season, such as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in Season 1. Spider-Man himself would be moderately paced, being bitten in episode 1, learning about his powers in episode 2, wrestling in episode 3, pursuing the killer in episode 4, design the costume in episode 5 and getting into action for the first time in episode 6. Amongst these trademark events are interspersed several storylines about other formations, including the Prowler vigilante, Oscorps's experiments, the Daily Bugle starting up and Peter Parker's own special kind of social awkwardness.
Other Notes
Those are my thoughts for now... I need more pictures I think, and more in depth character studies to illustrate how a character-centric show, as opposed to an action-centric show, like a cartoon, could work, and work well, especially with an Ensemble cast.
