It’s nice to have a choice, but doesn’t Spider-Man already have his hands full fighting two bad guys?
By Burbanked on Jan 19, 2006 in Development Heck, Movies, One-Sheetery, Spidey | 1,397 views |
Throw a cyberpebble today and you’re likely to hit a story somewhere in the Webo-blogo-intersphere that Spider-Man’s famed, doomed soulmate Gwen Stacy will be introduced into the movie franchise’s storyline in Spider-Man 3 next year - and will likely be played by Clint Howard’s niece Bryce Dallas Howard.
What? You say that this news was broken last night by Harry himself at AICN, and confirmed this morning by the likes of the Hollywood Reporter? And every movie site worth the pixels they’re beamed upon has already reported it today? Cursed day job! How can we have become so wretched, so vile, so as to not be free to blog every minute, every day, upon every whim and fancy? WHY?
Oh, right. Paying bills. Mouths to feed. Productivity objectives. All perfectly good reasons. Sorry. Here endeth the tangent.
So what does this mean to Raimi’s Spidey and the cinematic world he inhabits? Obviously Sam and company must have something different and probably interesting up their creative sleeves because Spider-Man’s traditional, comicbook storyline has already been turned on its webhead by the events of the first two movies. But the Spidey-moviemakers haven’t dropped the ball so far, and earning nearly $800 million in US gross buys one a certain amount of breathing room when it comes to these things.
So we’ll wait and see how this plays out. But with the movie already featuring a bad-guy triangle on top of this love-interest triangle, we honestly feel just a slight twinge, the merest hint, of concern. We’d just hate for Spidey to be tempted by the evil lure and misery of TMHOP Syndrome.
Never heard of it? Allow us to demonstrate:
- The original Batman one-sheet, 1989.
- Heads on poster: zero.
- Movie quality: *POW!*
- Batman & Robin one-sheet, 1997.
- Heads on poster: five.
- Movie quality: very smelly.
Just be careful, Sony. Tread lightly, Raimi. Stay smart and don’t succumb to the marketing craptrap of Too Many Heads On the Poster.
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because clearly Cage has decided to become action/thriller cinema’s first Polish great-grandma. (
Well, that’s too bad. Back a year or so ago when I heard that they’d be making a movie out of Judi and Ron Barrett’s terrific kids’ book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I hoped maybe it’d be made live-action. Handled well, the idea of seeing an actual town where it rained hotdogs and baked beans in an open-roof restaurant, as well as the bit where sanitation trucks clean up all the leftover rain/snow/food and feed it to the pets would be, I thought, a bundle of CG-imbued cinema fun. 
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