The title also packs in as many Spider-powers as Rare could reasonably utilize with the system's limitations.īut it's these limitations that proved to be the downfall of "The Amazing Spider-Man." The Game Boy's monochromatic screen saps the color out of the web-slinging hero, and Spidey often blends into the background as a result. It wasn't for lack of effort, as the title provides a sufficient challenge without being too lengthy (as seen in this YouTube playthrough, the game is only about twenty minutes long from start to finish). Back in 1990, Rare released one of the worst "Spider-Man" games ever made - the infamous "The Amazing Spider-Man" on Game Boy. Sam Raimi | Marc Webb | E.W.As it turns out, they can't all be winners.
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The project was taken over by director Marc Webb, and was released in theaters on July 3, 2012. Having anticipated this, Sony planned a back-up script for a reboot. Main article: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film).Thank you for not wasting the studio's money, and I appreciate your candor." So we left on the best of terms, both of us trying to do the best thing for fans, the good name of Spider-Man, and Sony Studios." Go ahead with your reboot, which you've been planning anyway." And Amy Pascal said, "Thank you. But I couldn't get the script together in time, due to my own failings, and I said to Sony, "I don't want to make a movie that is less than great, so I think we shouldn't make this picture. I was very unhappy with Spider-Man 3, and I wanted to make Spider-Man 4 to end on a very high note, the best Spider-Man of them all. However, it ultimately came down to an inability to get together a suitable story that led him to pass on a fourth installment of the blockbuster franchise. "It really was the most amicable and undramatic of breakups: It was simply that we had a deadline and I couldn't get the story to work on a level that I wanted it to work. Raimi admitted to being "exhausted" with the "tremendous amount of delegation" needed to make "gigantic" movies like the Spider-Man films. Anne Hathaway as Black Cat/Felicia Hardy.John Malkovich as Vulture/Adrian Toomes.Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man/Peter Parker.With so many issues, Sony cancelled the film in January 2010. Further complicating things, Raimi reportedly went through four revisions of the script, with different writers, and still "hated it". As reported by Deadline Hollywood, Spider-Man 4 is caught up in a web of disagreements that’ll likely keep it from being released on May 5th, 2011 as planned. Spider-Man has a sticky situation to crawl out of. In December 2009, it was reported that John Malkovich was in talks to play the Vulture|Vulture, with Anne Hathaway playing Black Cat.
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He also had plans to upgrade Bruce Campbell to a more significant role than his prior cameos.
Curt Connors into the Lizard, with Dylan Baker reprising his role. On the subject of villains, Raimi considered showcasing the transformation of Dr.
The script underwent further revision by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire and once more by Gary Ross in October of 2009. Sony hired James Vanderbilt in October of 2008 to pen the screenplay, after contacting David Koepp, the writer of the first film. Come 2009, however, Raimi dismissed the rumors that all three films were being made, instead confirming that only the fourth was under development. In spite of the lukewarm fan reception to part 3, its impressive box office score convinced Sony to attempt to make a fourth film.ĭevelopment began in 2008, with Raimi attached to direct and the core cast of the previous films to return.