I've put this fancast out here quickly 'cause everybody and their dog has
been doing a SPIDER-MAN Fancast and I thought I would throw mine
into the mix!
Now, the new SPIDEY reboot is a high school reboot with a SPIDER-'BOY'
instead of SPIDER-MAN. That's all just fine if they do it right! But to have
LIZARD in it before PETER goes to college is jumping the gun. DR. CURT
CONNORS is PETER'S college professor and CONNORS shouldn't
become LIZARD till PETER is in college.
It's a lame premise for a HIGHSCHOOL SPIDER-MAN! But leave it to
SONY to follow FOX'S suit of screwing with MARVEL CBM'S and screw
with SPIDER-MAN!
I'm not totally against a high school Spidey but putting LIZARD in
here ahead of time is laughably lame! For that one reason I'm passing on
watching the reboot!
But my “MAN-BOOT” has absolutely nothing to do with the
“SPIDER-BOY” reboot or RAIMI'S SPIDER-MAN movies. This is for a
grown, manly SPIDER-MAN! This takes place way after UNCLE BEN
is dead and SPIDER-MAN is the SPIDER-“MAN” of today! That's
why I'm calling it a “'MAN'-BOOT”.
Now I thought the RAIMI SPIDER-MAN movies were pretty top-
notch save for the weird WEB-SHOOTER GLANDS on PETER'S
arms, the gold web-lines on his costume, and the awfully campy,
overblown J. JONAH JAMESON. The over-the-top performance of
J. K. SIMMONS just really irritated me something fierce! I'm sure that's
what RAIMI was aiming for and J. K. did a good job but I prefer a more
serious, realistic J. JONAH JAMESON! NOLAN didn't NEED camp
humor in TDK so why should MARVEL movies have camp in them.
The campiness in PUNISHER: WARZONE ruined the movie for me.
Why is it Hollywood thinks they still have to put cartoonish camp in
CBM'S? I guess they think since their name is “COMIC” book movie
that they have to make CBM'S a “CARTOON”. I would think they
would use TDK as an example and start to make serious realistic
CBM'S.
Even the new GEEN LANTERN movie appears like it has some camp
scenes, like the silly “taking-off-his-pants-with-HAL-pulling-off-his-
belt-scene”. Now, who pulls off their belt when they take off their pants?
I don't know about anyone else but I leave my belt in the loops and on
my pants when I take them off! Camp is not “CREDIBLE” or realism!
It takes me out of the movie!
I want a credible SPIDER-MAN of realism and logic! In my
SPIDER-MAN movie idea I have SPIDER-MAN a grown-up PETER PARKER
with grown-up realistic problems. Also he has web-shooters he
invented with his genius not inherited through mutation.
Like the comic book he asks M.J. To marry him but she feels she isn't ready
to settle down to domestic bliss yet and be in a fully responsible marriage.
Thus she leaves PETER for a career acting in HOLLYWOOD.
Then PETER meets up with FELICIA HARDY/BLACK CAT with her
larcenous ways. In the end she decides, with PARKER'S help,
to become a hero and they start a romance.
But in the mean time a deadly man by the name of SERGEI KRAVENOFF
comes a calling to HUNT down PETER'S professor and friend, DR. CURT
CONNORS, who has begun transforming into the lethal LIZARD.
Now, I don't think this is too many bad guys like RAIMI'S SPIDER-
MAN 3. RAIMI just didn't weave those numerous bad guy's elements
into a cohesive story.
I could easily weave these characters into a cohesive script, I don't
understand how a writer being paid thousand of dollars can't!
Of course, in HOLLYWOOD somehow those high-paid screenwriters
seem quite often to just not be able to do it!
So SPIDEY must save FELICA HARDY from herself and DR. CONNORS
from himself and all of them from that killer, KRAVEN, THE HUNTER!
I entitle my SPIDER-MAN “MAN-BOOT” movie--
“SPIDER-MAN: BEASTS UNLEASHED!”
To me, IAN looks exactly like the comic book grown-up PETER PARKER.
He just has to wear brown contact lenses: PETER PARKER- 5'9”; IAN
SOMERHALDER- 5'9½”.
SPIDER-MAN: IAN SOMERHALDER
With brown contacts IAN would be an authentic-looking PETER
PARKER, just like I've illustrated here.
PETER PARKER: IAN SOMERHALDER
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI is a dead ringer for the lithe, acrobatic and
bad ass martial artist FELICIA HARDY, BLACK CAT! If YVONNE
doesn't fit FELICIA I'll cut off all my hair...(WHOOPS I already done
that!--LOL)
BLACK CAT (FELICIA HARDY): YVONNE STRAHOVSKI
Along with quite a few other people here I think Jeremy makes a more
realistic CURT CONNORS.
LIZARD (DR. CURT CONNORS): JEREMY DAVIES
ELENA SATINE is 23 and she plays a woman in her mid to late 20's just
fine.
M.J. (MARY JANE WATSON): ELENA SATINE
I thought CLANCY would fit a more realistic, less cartoonish JAMESON.
J. JONAH JAMESON: CLANCY BROWN
MAGGIE SMITH looks exactly like the AUNT MAY illustrated here, JUST
like her.
AUNT MAY (MAY PARKER): MAGGIE SMITH
ROBBIE ROBERTSON is a formidable man himself and much older here
so I thought the older 6'3” RICHARD ROUNDTREE was perfect for this
role.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON (JOSEPH ROBERTSON): RICHARD ROUNDTREE
BETTY BRANT is a beautiful reporter/personal assistant to J. JONAH that
PETER dated at one time so I thought ERICA simply fit here. She needs a new
gig anyway now that SMALLVILLE is ending.
BETTY BRANT: ERICA DURANCE
MAIN BAD GUY:
If GERARD BUTLER is good enough for SHAMAN@, he's good enough
for me!
KRAVEN, THE HUNTER (SERGEI KRAVENOFF): GERARD BUTLER