Spider-Man 4 News

Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben? Sally Field as Aunt May??

If the rumors over at The Hollywood Reporter are to be believed, Sally Field is in early negotiations to play the role of Aunt May in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot while Martin Sheen is in talks to play Uncle Ben. Based on acting experience alone this seems to be a great choice if you ask [...]

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Andrew Garfield is Your New Spider-Man

The rumors can all end as Andrew Garfield has official signed on to play Peter Parker aka Spider-Man in the reboot of the Spider-Man movie franchise. I’ve never heard of him, but that doesn’t mean anything. Apparently he was amazing in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”, but I have yet to see it so I [...]

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The Importance of the Spiderman Reboot

Every so often, a franchie gets “rebooted,” which essentially means that it has everything that came before it stripped away, and the characters are returned to their narrative starting positions. Origin stories are re-told, and few origin stories are more well known than that of Spiderman. That Spiderman is being rebooted comes as something of [...]

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Marc Webb to Direct Spider-Man 4

According to deadline.com, Marc Webb is going to be officially announced as the new director of Spider-Man 4. You may know Marc Webb as the director of the movie (500) Days of Summer which I have heard good things about, but have yet to actually see. So there you have it, Spider-Man 4 is officially [...]

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Spider-Man 4 To Lose Raimi and Maguire

It looks as though Sam Raimi and the studio could not reach an agreement regarding the many things they were arguing about, so with that Spider-Man as we’ve known it for the past 3 films is gone. Sony says that they will reboot the franchise in 2012 with a new director and an all new [...]

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