Any word on who may direct/star? Hopefully not some teen actor. And they're probably have Peter Parker single and not married to Mary-Jane, hu? I always though Michael Biehn would make the perfect Spider-Man, but he's a little old now for it. But ten years ago, he would have be dynamite.

NP: Soldier just finished, like, 3 seconds ago. Now it's time to play some "Driver" on my brother's Playstation for an hour or so, then it's off to Snoozeville.

The way Steve Ditko originally drew him, and the way Stan Lee wrote him, he's got to seem young and borderline gawky at first; the big-screen casting will have to reflect this in a matinee-idol sort of way. Off the top of my head, Tobey Maguire might be believable (it's just going to be one or another set of stuntmen inside the costume anyway, plus piles of CGI a la the SPAWN movie).

It seems a little bizarre to me to speculate that a composer will do a film that doesn't even have an official schedule yet.

Maybe Raimi would want to give Joseph LoDuca another break, since HERCULES is over and XENA will not last forever ...

Danny Elfman on SPIDERMAN!.....that's great news.

Thanks for the info.

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Spiderman, played by N'Sync heartthrob Justin Tumber(whatever) with special guest appearance of Nick Carter from Backstreet Boys fame (NOW my niece will go see it).

Music by Danny Elfman (just ten seconds of it)
Soundtrack by N'Sync, Bachstreet Boys, Britnay Spears, etc.

Directed by (who cares at this point)

Ohh please, let it not be remotely like that.

As for the rest of the production heads and credits they should (hopefully) be like this:

Directed by Sam Raimi
Original Music by Danny Elfman, Jerry Goldsmith or Alan Silvestri
Music Supervisor:Randy Gerston
Special Visual Effects by ILM
Creatures Designed by Stan Winston Studio
Special Make-Up Designed by Rick Baker
Film Editors: Arthur Coburn (Raimi's regular editor), Conrad Buff (Cameron's regular editor), and Chris Lebenzon
Production Designer:Peter Lamont
Director of Photography:Russell Carpenter
Story by James Cameron
Screenplay by James Cameron and David Koepp

Hopefully we'll find out soon who'll be Peter Parker/Spidey and Eddie Brock/Venom.
It'd better not be Leo DiCaprio. Heaven forbid.

After everything Joe LoDuca did for his movies and after Elfman almost ruined "Army of Darkness" with that ridiculous "March of the Deads"...

His H'ness basically said it all (you know your comics H), Whom ever plays Spidey as Peter Parker needs a bit of nerdiness to him1

Casper Van Dien...No!No!No!No!NO!

As for the score......Lets wait and see, It's early days!

Now that I've thought of TROOPERS -- that film's alumnus, Dr. Doogie himself, NEIL PATRICK HARRIS is as close to Peter Parker as anything Steve Ditko ever drew! Though that might be a bit TOO nerdy for comfort ... y'know, as early as ten years ago, Michael J. Fox might have been the front-runner.

On reflection, Bruce Campbell would make a TERRIFIC Green Goblin ... if *I* were making this one, I'd HAVE to start with the Green Goblin, who is every bit the Spider-Man's arch nemesis as the Joker is the Bat-Man's ... but since they're going to pander to the current market no matter what happens, it's bound to come down to the Venom character. (Who plays that? Bill Goldberg or another wrestling wrefugee, no doubt.)

P.S. Heh, I guess I *do* know my comics, noble Timster (Lord 'Ster? if I am to be his H'ness, after all). And, Dantoris: as far as Spidey talking to himself all the time -- that's been a tic of pretty much every Marvel book ever issued, partly because they only have ever had so many pages per issue to TELL a story. I doubt very much that we'd hear the constant talking-to-myself that colors pretty much ALL comic book writing -- but I wonder if the scripts that exist will preserve the particular wisecracking style that is special to Spider-Man.

Of all the Marvel heroes, Spider-Man strikes me as being the one who is MOST easily adapted to film. Of the early Marvel hits, we still know such titles as THE FANTASTIC FOUR, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, THE AVENGERS, IRON MAN and so on -- and what did they all have in common? Splendid designs by the late Jack Kirby (who also designed the Spider-Man suit, although the basic look of the title was ultimately Ditko's); and the teen-angst feel of the plots and dialogue by Stan Lee.

The recurring motif in all of Lee's stories is that of his heroes' feelings of GUILT. Just sticking to SPIDER-MAN for a moment: Peter Parker is assailed from all angles by feelings of guilt for things he did wrong, things he never did wrong but is constantly blamed for (as Spider-Man), and guilt for things that he might do that will make things even worse (his Aunt May's heart problem -- God, is she still alive in the present continuity? I haven't followed it in many many years.)

BATMAN was originally powered in the same way, before it decayed (by the 1950s at the latest) into some weird cross between pulp novels and carnival freakshows. It wasn't long before the primal image of seeing his parents gunned down was merely the lip-service paid to the character in the BATMAN series. SPIDER-MAN decayed in a similar way -- but SPIDER-MAN took off at a time when the DC comics were failing because SPIDER-MAN embraced contemporary issues (among many examples: the famous LSD-related series, beautifully drawn by Gil Kane, which were rejected by the Comics Code -- and which Stan Lee went ahead and published anyway.)

As well, to reply in part to Dantoris' wish for a movie about the adult, married Spider-Man: to me, at least, Spider-Man will always represent the troubled teen who has been gifted with powers well beyond his comprehension (at first), who must learn the hard way that "With great power must come great responsibility." Spider-Man was the first supercharacter who was recognizably like his readers: not that all comic readers are nerds, but don't we all at one time or another FEEL like nerds? Rather, Peter Parker was a growing-up kid who, completely accidentally, became a MUTANT. Really, the superpowers bestowed on him by the radioactive spider are nothing short of a metaphor for the ravages of puberty; and his behavior in the first issue, in particular, mirror the arrogance, selfishness, and sheer self-pity that such physical and mental changes may put all of us through.

SPIDER-MAN, alone amongst any superhero comic I've seen, has always struck me as a parable about growing up, and how hard it can be, and how much the individual may punish himself in the process, whether justifiably or not. THAT'S why I think SPIDER-MAN was a hit in the 1960s, at a time when BATMAN was fading; and why I think that, well-enough made, it would hit the box-office and pop-cultural stratosphere. Alone among Marvel's creations, I think SPIDER-MAN has the potential to do that. (X-MEN, which IS coming out, has a similar texture to it -- but that one's a built-in hit that looks to me to have little to do with its origins.)

Phew, long enough for you? Well, Mr. 2 isn't keeping up his end as far as the Overblown Threads category goes ...

NP: STAR TREK - TMP (whoever wrote this is pretty damn talented!)

Men In Black, Mission Impossible and Batman were SF or action movies. They had a song and a score cd!

Good Will Hunting and Anywhere But Here were small movies with song cd's.

In what category does Spiderman belong?

Andre:

I think March of the Dead was great in the movie. I mean, it's a trash movie and it needed a fun score. That's what Elfman and LoDuca did.

Get rid of the sounds and expand the score releases, that's what I say.

On a woefull note...The Incredible HULK t.v. series,He was real adebt at smashing coffee tables and shopping trolley's!, The REAL Hulk could totallise The National Guard washed down with the good ol'U.S.Army followed by a tear up with The Abomination and still have enough energy to pick his teeth clean with The Leader!!

I really LOVED the HULK show, even though I knew it had little to do with the comic -- perhaps I liked it better that they didn't try to replicate what they NEVER could on TV at that time (perhaps with today's technology they could come close to it -- but an animated series would make more sense).

Oddly, there was a HULK movie on the boards that was canned very recently, because they couldn't imagine how they were going to pay for all that ... which is ridiculous, it couldn't have been more expensive than, say, GODZILLA ... but they ran scared from the prices.

There was also a FANTASTIC FOUR movie that Roger Corman produced on the extremely cheap, and which Marvel has had suppressed, in favor of the huger-budgeted version they'd RATHER see up there. Wise from a trademark point of view, but no matter how well X-MEN does, I kind of doubt there will be a FANTASTIC FOUR movie at this point.

I'm amazed that anyone else has even READ that book ... it certainly ANTICIPATED the plot motor of JURASSIC PARK, didn't it ...

I don't even understand why Corman & Co. even BOTHERED to buy the CARNOSAUR title, since the movie had virtually NOTHING to do with the book ...

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Originally posted by H Rocco:
Oddly, there was a HULK movie on the boards that was canned very recently, because they couldn't imagine how they were going to pay for all that ... which is ridiculous, it couldn't have been more expensive than, say, GODZILLA ... but they ran scared from the prices.

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