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Sony may reboot and recast Spider-Man with 'Sinister Six'

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Josh Wilding

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on Sony may reboot and recast Spider-Man with 'Sinister Six'

Big changes are in store for Spider-Man it seems, and following reports yesterday that Sony might be talking to Marvel Studios about adding the character to their Cinematic Universe, more plans which are being discussed have now emerged.

According to a new report from Badass Digest, “Sony is going to soft reboot Spider-Man with The Sinister Six, having a new actor playing a Spidey who works with the villains The Dirty Dozen style to take down a larger threat.” That would obviously mean Andrew Garfield won’t return as Peter Parker, and if you need an example of a “soft reboot”, look no further than 2008’s The Incredible Hulk.

This could work, and it saves us going through yet another origin story!

Another idea being discussed is, “To put Spider-Man on the shelf for four or five years and see if they can develop any of the side characters into their own franchises.” With Sinister Six taking The Amazing Spider-Man 3‘s 2016 release date and talk of a female-led spin-off, this one seems very likely, but the site cautions that they don’t know whether or not Sony will do all or any of these.

The site goes on to add, “Venom is functionally dead again,” meaning that the movie focusing on the fan-favourite villain is back to square one and Alex Kurtzman likely won’t be directing. How do you guys feel about these rumours?

SOURCE: Badass Digest

Comments

  1. Sergio Avatar
    Sergio

    This is getting truly ridiculous….

  2. Zan Avatar
    Zan

    But i love Garfield D:

  3. Victor Polk Avatar
    Victor Polk

    No! They should not reboot nor recast Spider-Man. Andrew Garfield should stay as Spider-Man.

    1. MIGN Avatar
      MIGN

      I agree, they should keep him. But the question is: will he want to stay?

  4. DeathbySkullfxxx Avatar
    DeathbySkullfxxx

    Theyre rumors… dont believe them until official statements are made

  5. Giorgos Lan Avatar
    Giorgos Lan

    Sony has f@cked spider-man franchise repeatedly!! Owning gold, not knowing how to use it!
    Incompetent people!

  6. Rodolfo Reyes Avatar
    Rodolfo Reyes

    the new franchise may have a lot of problems but Garfield isn’t one of them.. They should end this Sinister Six rubbish and give us the SPIDER-MAN 3 we deserve.

  7. That Guy Avatar
    That Guy

    Get a new director, get new writers, and worry less about the $$$ and more on the stories!! Sony, you are ruining our hero!!!

  8. Simon Smolanko Avatar
    Simon Smolanko

    I love Andrew Garfield as Spiderman! please just give us The Amazing Spiderman 3

  9. Drew Douglas Avatar
    Drew Douglas

    These folks have no idea what they are doing. I’ll be really turned off to this franchise if they ditch Garfield. And that’s tough to say considering Spidey is my favorite superhero.

  10. That Guy Avatar
    That Guy

    Just Sony stirring the pot to get peoples attention

  11. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    Keep Garfield. He’s the best thing about the latest reboot. Well, him and Emma Stone, but she’s obviously done with the franchise.

  12. Greg Gorham Avatar
    Greg Gorham

    Andrew Garfield isn’t the problem; it’s the script, and the need to push in so many different characters and under-developed storylines at the same time. If they can fix that they can save the series. If they can’t fix that, no amount of cast changes and reboots, hard or soft, will help.

  13. harry miracle Avatar
    harry miracle

    what is this shit again? I really don’t get it. Amazing Spider Man was ok, it wasn’t perfect but still good and Andrew is a really great Spidey. Why they wanna kick him? Cause he said something against the studio? Backstabbers.

  14. John Avatar
    John

    What’s funny is Sony allegedly caused most of the problems on ASM2 (according to Andrew Garfield, who’s a straight shooter), forcing Webb to include characters he didn’t want to use yet, etc. Same thing they did to Raimi. But Sony will place all the blame on Webb and kick him to to curb. Garfield, too. I was actually pretty interested in where the story was going to go after ASM2, but it looks like we’ll never see that. $700 million in box office returns is still solid, but Sony unrealisticly expected ASM2 to break a billion in revenue, which is still a rare occurance for a blockbuster to pull off. Not every comic book movie is going to make Dark Knight or Avengers money. Studios need to realize that and not set such lofty goals for their films. Man of Steel didn’t do as well as WB had hoped, but they kept Snyder, Cavill and the continuity and are fordging on. Sony shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water – if MGM (and partially Sony) flipped out like this they would have rebooted Bond again, then we never would have gotten the wonderful Skyfall after Quantum of Solice was disliked by the majority of critics.

  15. Magnoliafan Avatar
    Magnoliafan

    Thank god. I’m sick of that hipster giraffe pretending he can act. Nothing he does in the movie feels sincere at all. He thinks badly faking a stutter is enough to make him seem like a “nerd.” One of the worst actors I’ve ever seen in a blockbuster.

  16. Colin Avatar
    Colin

    Sony is so incredibly bad at producing movies

  17. BC Avatar
    BC

    Andrew Garfield has been good as Spider-Man, but the writing, the over top video game CGI, and bad casting of other characters has hurt the current reboot.

  18. angelicayandres Avatar
    angelicayandres

    They must not dare!!! I want the story to continue, not reboot. It was finally getting to an interesting place. If they reboot again they will ruin everything. Go on and give us a great ASM and stop trying to have all the villains in one movie.

  19. AK Avatar
    AK

    Sony need to just hand the film rights RIGHT OVER TO MARVEL!! I feel like I’m watching a car crash in slow motion.

  20. Paul Avatar
    Paul

    Marval should just buy the rights to spiderman back and do it properly, it would be amazing under them, sony have shown time and time again how awful they are and they are basically ruining the name of spiderman

  21. Jesse Avatar
    Jesse

    I’m ok with Andrew Garfield. Am I the only one who thinks he’s better than Tobey? WTF Sony? I think they need to improve the script, directing and add a relevant subplots.

  22. Eric M Avatar
    Eric M

    I’m just irritated they are going to do the Sinister Six movie before Amazing Spider-Man 3… they need to keep Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker, but they need to introduce the team as individuals so everyone knows who they are and their rolls in Oscorp (since apparently all their villainous tendencies and personas are either developed at/harnessed by Oscorp) rather than cram all of them into a movie and have them work with Spider-Man. There’s some serious whore logic brewing within the Sony headquarters.
    Also, if Sony weren’t the bitches they are, they would do a merge with the MCU, especially since Civil War is coming.

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