The new Spider-Man movie; which is being produced by Sony, and is due to become a reboot rather than a sequel to the trilogy that first kicked off with with Sam Raimi (The Gift) directing, and Toby Maguire (Seabiscuit) starring as the geeky teenager who, once bitten by a radioactive spider, starts to develop super-powers that mean he can crawl up walls and fling webs at bad guys; is now moving ahead, and currently has the final touches being applied to the script.
The script has been written by Zodiac writer James Vanderbilt (the man who previously wrote a draft to the planned Spider-Man 4 movie, before it was binned by the studio), but is now being “production polished” by none other than Alvin Sargent; the man who not only helped write the past two films, but did some editing with Sam Raimi’s first first (albeit uncredited); and will focus on Peter Parker (Spider-Man) as a 17-year-old high-school student who’s not only struggling with shifting hormones, his outsider status, and the death of his uncle, but gaining incredible powers as well, and is rumoured to be much more realistic than previous films, and more emotionally based.
There’s still no official word on casting (a few hopeful young actors have been reported to be starring, but all later reputed), but Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) will be directing the reboot, which is due to start filming later this year, having a tentative (currently subject to change) release date of sometime in 2012; not unlike a whole host of other big movies, and a couple of other comic-book adaptations.
