First a musical, now this? Too bad Peter Parker used up all of his emo in Spider-Man 3.
Sorry, Tobey.
Sony has announced Spider-Man 4 as a no-go, opting instead for a reboot of their $2.4 billion franchise. The press release, with a few bolded liberties, reads like a supervillain monologue:
Culver City, CA (January 11, 2010) — Peter Parker is going back to high school when the next Spider-Man hits theaters in the summer of 2012. Remember? Like the first Spider-Man. Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios announced today they are moving forward with a film based on a script by James Vanderbilt (of Darkness Falls fame! The movie about the killer Tooth Fairy!) that focuses on a teenager grappling with both contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises.
This article appears in Jan 13-19, 2010.