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Guess Who Is Directing ‘Spectacular Spider-Man’?!
Originally set for Sinister Six, Drew Goddard is now focusing solely on the next Spider-Man for Marvel Studios, Latino-Review reports.
Goddard – director of The Cabin In the Woods and writer on Cloverfield – would be taking the reigns on the new series potentially titled Spectacular Spider-Man (I guess they’ll save “Web Of Spider-Man” for the third reboot).
Sony will scrap everything planned, including an Aunt May movie (seriously?), but won’t tell another origin story (thank God).
We won’t be seeing Andrew Garfield as the web-slinger, as a new actor will be cast. And, something I’ve been screaming for even before Amazing Spider-Man, is that the focus is on high school. And when I say they want Peter Parker to be in high school, they want him to be there for an entire trilogy and grow up into the role (much like Harry Potter). They’re in this for the long haul.
Surprisingly, there are already leaked plot details. Explains the site, a major part of the first film will involve Spider- Man fighting Iron Man and then trying to pass the “audition” to join the Avengers! The villains? Well, the plan is to bring together the Sinister Six!
Everything here shows that Marvel is listening to the screaming of fan boys. And while I typically think they shouldn’t listen too hard, this is one situation where the fans are wholeheartedly correct. Spidey needs to be younger, he needs to stay in high school (the best stories from both the original and “Ultimate” series took place during Peter’s early years), and the audience doesn’t need another damn origin story.
Personally, I just want to see the high school drama built up as opposed to see 100 action set pieces. “Friday Night Lights” starring Spider-Man sounds great to me…
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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