Spider-Man 5 and 6 Speak Softly & Hire James Vanderbilt

Woo-hoo! No more crappy Maguire. He's so awful, he makes Keanu Reeves look like Daniel Day Lewis.

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No Reboot!. Can't they just give it a rest after the 4th movie. Also I thought Toby Signed a deal for 2 movies but both where to be shot at the same time. Now i know there only shooting 1 movie now. So does that mean he is not signed for the 5th?

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Not too thrilled about this idea on Sony's part. To be honest I think they're rushing this franchise back into theaters too soon. I certainly havent forgotten SP3 and thats not a good thing. If SP4 isn't done properly (and it seems as though Raimi understands this) than sony can kiss 5 and 6 goodbye. I think its stupid that these companies are ignoring the ones that MAKE the movie. If Raimi and co. don't like what is happening, you dont just ignore them and go about making a shitty movie anyway

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I'm probably in the minority on this, but I'd gladly welcome a fresh take on Spidey in few years, rather than them continuing on with the current series.

Aside from some good action sequences and a few good performances (Doc Ock, J.Jonah Jameson) I wasn't a fan of these films at all. In particular the main cast. I don't have anything against Tobey McGuire, he's pretty good actor, and I guess his Peter Parker was ok, but he's no Spider-Man. I don't know who Kristen Dunst was playing but it wasn't Mary Jane. And Aunt May was sorta creepy and annoying. And though I like William Defoe and James Franco, I didn't buy them as the Osbornes. Green Goblin looked stupid and Spider-Man's suit was way too dark. What's wrong with the comic book costumes? It is a COMIC BOOK movie after all. Why does everything have to look so serious and...real. I get why the Batman movies gotta be that way, but Spidey's world is perfect for some goofy-looking character.

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Exactly. I agree. It looked perfectly fine. It wasn't too dark in any way, shape or form. Of course they're gonna do a somewhat different take on some of the villains, i.e. Goblin...both of them. Doc Ock looked fantastic, as did Venom. The only thing I did not like, let alone, enjoy was the fact that technically, if you didn't know who Venom was, you had no idea who the guy was supposed to be. That was horrible. I'd like to see the rumors come true and see Sir Ben Kingsly come in as the Vulture...and maybe see Conors show up for a second as the Lizard...but that's just me.

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A reboot? Already? Hell no. I would refuse to see any Sipder-Man movie that didn't at least have two of the three major players in it (McGuire, Dunst or Raimi) and I would never see ANY reboot that's rebooting a series that A hasn't even had 4 movies in it and B wasn't made after the series is stagnant. Spider Man is far from stagnant and it shouldn't be rebooted just because the actors don't want to keep playing the same parts. If that happens they should just stop making the movies.

Although I've never understood why actors/directors wouldn't jump at the chance to get a steady paycheck playing a reoccurring character in a big name film.

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Liz, Liz, Liz
Why can there only be one actor to portray Parker/Spiderman?
Should James Bond have died off after Sean Connery?
Or Batman after Michael Keaton?

It's all about the story.

District 9 zipped through 20 years of an alien landing and subsequent ghetto development in about 4 minutes at the beginning of the movie. A reboot with new actors is just continuing the character in a new set of circumstances that don't have to be a sequel or tied into what happened previously. But if Hollywood needs a 'reboot' then the Ultimate Spiderman series should serve well to the younger audience - Parker as a a webmaster etc.

The big problem with the current series is that Raimi and McGuire and the writers did not advance or mature Peter Parker at all. He was still the same, self conscious, low self esteem geek in all 3 pictures.

The series needs new storylines, actors and director.
The fans will be able to handle it and so will new ones.

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I'm fine with a reboot. I really enjoyed the first two Spiderman films, and I'm glad Raimi is getting one more shot at it, but the actors are only getting older. Let Spiderman 4 be the last film for Raimi and co. and let the series rest a few years like the Incredible Hulk then come back with a new crew. I'd love to see how someone else might portray Parker/Spiderman, and we've needed a new MJ for a while. And skip the origin story, jump right into the middle of things, we all know what's going on.

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I am fine with a reboot as long as it is not an origin story again. Do we need to see Peter Parker bitten again by a spider? Comics have different creative teams all the time why can't movies?

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SM3 can be reasonably good if you eliminate the e-mo strut walking scene and the piano playing bar scene.What SM really needs is what the book always has-sarcastic, witty humour.From when Stan Lee wrote to even now, that is over half of what makes SM so appealing.If you want to replace Kristen Dunst, there was the suggestion of Maggie ( forgot her last name) who played in "Sherry."

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I am confused by two things,

1. People who say Tobey Maguire should be the only Spiderman, c'mon it's a movie based on a comic I'm not going to see Tobey who by the way sucked in the last film, I am going to see spiderman, I could care less who the actor is. I would actually prefer a new cast, Tobey didn't even bother to get in shape for the last movie.

2. People who think the franchise should end. Why? This thing will keep making money just like James Bond. Did they give the comic a rest? This character has so much source material to draw from they could be making movies for the next 20 years.

I don't care who directs it, who writes it or who acts in it, just give me an entertaining movie based on the source material. What we don't need in the movies are major decviations from the comics.

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Reboot Spiderman? Um yea that's just retarded. Spiderman 3 which "everyone hated" still made a ton of money and any smart fan realizes that Tobey didn't write that horrible script, he just acted it out.

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