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The Best ‘Spider-Man’ Will Be Animated (In 2018)
While Sony is destroying the live-action Spider-Man franchise all over again, they’re actually planning something “spectacular”.
One of the best children’s movies in the past decade is The Lego Movie, which was not only entertaining for kids, but also the adults who took them to the theater (and were forced to watch over and over again on home video).
Sony Pictures has tapped the widely sought after Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, directors of said Lego Movie, to write and produce an animated Spider-Man feature, dubbed the “first of it’s kind”, to be released July 20, 2018.
“It will be something quite unlike anything you have seen before,” said Tom Rothman, chairman of Sony Pictures entertainment motion picture group during the Sony Studios presentation at CinemaCon. “The highly technical term for it is, ‘It’s (expletive) awesome.’ ”
This is exciting news as doing something animated opens up unlimited opportunities. I recall Raimi having huge difficulties with both Dr. Octopus and Venom because of CGI limitations. With animation, there are no limitations – and this includes casting multiple villains/characters. And maybe, just maybe, we get to see an African American Spider-Man? That would be cool, no?! Oh, and if it’s a success, could it open the door to other animated features?! (Yes.)
The live-action Spider-Man reboot is casting now for release in July 28, 2017. The animated version will not tie-in to the existing live-action Marvel franchises.
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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