Spider-Man Film Reboot?

Whenever I want the latest scoop on upcoming superhero/comic book-based films, the first place I go to is SuperHeroHype.com. However, for every big scoop that gets my inner fanboy excited, there is always another that just leaves me in anger and/or disappointment. Here is a segment of one such story:


Peter Parker is going back to high school when the next Spider-Man hits theaters in the summer of 2012.

Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios announced today they are moving forward with a film based on a script by James Vanderbilt that focuses on a teenager grappling with both contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises.

The new chapter in the "Spider-Man" franchise produced by Columbia, Marvel Studios and Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin, will have a new cast and filmmaking team. Spider-Man 4 was to have been released in 2011, but had not yet gone into production.

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Why?!

I'm all for rebooting a series for a new generation, or even rebooting a series if the first attempt was a failure, but the first Spider-Man film was great and came out only eight years ago! The second film was just as good, if not better; the third, while not as good as the previous two, wasn't bad enough to disregard the first two and warrant an entire reboot. Superhero/comic book stories are episodic by nature, so fans expect to see future storylines. Because of that, each storyline is its own reboot of sorts. New writers bring in new villains, new characters and new problems to make it their own, yet still continue the series. There is no reason film series can not do the same thing.

I am not a huge fan of Spider-Man, but I liked what has been done with him in the film series, and I know I'm not the only one that wants to see it continued. If the studio wants to "fix" it, then get a solid script, solid villains and solid actors, don't just hit the redo button. That seems like a cop out to me.