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I know we here at MRR are a little late on getting you up to speed on the latest with the new Spider-man film.  Honestly, both Doc Oz and I burnt out very quickly on Spidey after the second Raimi installment.

We were surrounded daily with the bi-monthly releases of the Ultimate Spider-man comic, and I was also reading Amazing Spider-man AND the M2 universe Spider-Girl.  Spidey had taken the whole world by storm, and we were both swept up in the madness.

However, it got a little tiring for both of us.  We started noticing that the franchise was getting lazy.  Releasing second rate games, figures, and I think we all agree Spidey 3 blew.

However, the new attempt to breathe life back into the wall-crawling character could be just what is needed to bring us back into the loop.

About a month back there was a big push to bring Donald Glover on as Spider-man, a push that I was very upset to see didn’t come to fruition.  Even Stan Lee said he wouldn’t mind see him play Spidey!

A new Spidey has been cast, and his name is One-Sheet Garfield.

He’s definitely got the look.  I haven’t seen “Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”, but from what I hear, he was amazing in it, and you know that if you can wow Terry Gilliam you’re doing something right.

As word spreads of One-Sheet taking the webbed suit, some of the characters most influential writers have come out to speak their mind on the new actor.

Todd McFarlane, most famous for the Spawn series and the run of Spidey he did in the 90s said:

Spider-Man is a juggernaut in and of himself, so you have the luxury of getting 500 tests and picking the best talent that will make the character. That’s what they’re saying they did, and I’m going to take them at their word. They didn’t feel pressured to put in a guy everybody knows, who’s one of the sexiest guys under 25 or anything. Peter Parker has a skinny neck and isn’t the biggest guy on the block. He doesn’t usually get picked first when it’s time to put together a baseball team at recess. As I look at images of One-Sheet Garfield, he sort of falls into that category.

Peter David, a repeat writer of the web-slinger said this about the actor after seeing him in Imaginarium:

I think this displays yet again Terry Gilliam’s brilliant eye for casting. Garfield was excellent as Anton in “The Adventures of Doctor Parnassus,” and if he brings to “Spider-Man” even a fraction of both the intensity and vulnerability that he displayed in Gilliam’s latest masterwork, then fans will be more than satisfied with the casting choice. If nothing else, I hope they’ll seek out “Parnassus” to get a preview of the next Peter Parker, since “Parnassus” is a film that deserves to be seen by as many people as possible.

Mark Miller, the man who made Peter unmask in Civil War, and writer of Kick-Ass said:

I think he’s a great choice. I picture-googled him this morning, which made me feel a bit creepy, and looked at about ten consecutive pages of images, which made me seem creepier still. But in some shots he looks like a drawing of Peter Parker. From some angles, he looks like the brilliant Mike Wieringo’s Parker, and from others he’s like a Romita Snr. Either way, he’s a great fit and I loved him in “Red Riding.

I personally think that Garfield is a great choice, and might just be what gets my Spidey-sense re-tingling.  Let’s face it, Spidey IS what superheros are all about.

What do you think?

Empire had the right idea when they chose to talk with Chris Evans right around Independence Day.  The first avenger talked about using the infamous shield, and wearing the suit.

“It’s an amazing costume. Given the fact that his costume is red, white and blue, and it’s tight, and it could be kind of flash and over the top – and given the fact that the movie takes place in the ‘40s and ‘50s – they’ve done a really good job of making it look really cool.”

“I think everyone that’s going to see it is going to say, ‘Okay, well done. Well done. I think they got the costume right. The casting they completely ruined, but the costume they nailed!’”

In comparison to his lithe, skin-tight Fantastic Four costume, Evans says: “[In the FF suit] …you could move around quite well. This is a little more cumbersome. It doesn’t exactly breathe the way the Fantastic Four costume breathed, but it’s the way it should be. Any type of World War II uniform would be a little chunky, and I think that’s what kind of gives it its character.”

Check out the rest of the interview here.

Are you getting pumped for this new superhero installment?  Or are you afraid they’ll kill the franchise again like they did on the first attempt?

According to Bloody Disgusting we’re about to see a nice new side of Mark Hamill.  If you don’t know who that is first of all…really?

Second, he was Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars Trilogy.  He also voiced the Joker in probably the best animated Batman series to date.

You know…this guy.

So what exactly is it that we are going to be seeing from him in “The Black Pearl”?  His writing and directing side!

Mark penned the story in screenplay format about 14 years ago, but was instead purchased and published in comic form through Dark Horse.  Now, after many years in hibernation, and almost vanishing as well as Hamill did from the public eye, it’s back!

Considered a “dark and edgy thriller” the team hopes to get an R rating to go along with their $7 million budget.  The story focuses on Luther Drake, a troubled man who becomes a costumed vigilante “hero” by accident and media pressure.

Thanks Bloody Disgusting

People seem to be getting pretty excited for Jonah Hex, the story of a disfigured, part time bounty hunter with a messed up face and Confederate uniform. I’m not sure why though. Is it because of Josh Brolin and Megan Fox? Or the fact that people have been wanting to see this comic adapted for a long time?

Everyone knows how incredibly fickle we geeks are about accuracy. And I will give Josh Brolin credit, when he originally donned the makeup for the first time he was incredibly passionate about getting every last detail right.  However there was one flaw. If you look at the comic image, the skin around his eye is pulled down and you can see a lot of his eyeball. Josh wanted this effect added in, until he found out that the long days of sandy exposure could cause him to go blind.

Though everything else looks pretty true to character…I’m just not impressed. Are you?