This July, the audience will see Spider-Man reappear, for the 6th time in the past 15 years, with the third generation of actors. Spider-Man: Homecoming , with young star Tom Holland in the lead role, has probably reached the saturation point of superhero movies (or was it 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man?). But Sony still has great reasons to continue making movies about a teenager who is bitten by a spider and hangs upside down from the ceiling with a huge slogan: “A lot of strength, a lot of work.”
Spider-Man first appeared in 1962 when Stan Lee and Steve Ditko broke up with each other about building a brave teenager the size of Le Van Tam to become the main character without having to be assistants to superheroes. big anymore.
So Peter Parker was born. Not as rich as Iron Man or as godly as Thor, Peter is an orphan boy still carrying his school bag, struggling with schoolwork, puberty, a hobby of killing bad people and immense strength after a bite. of a spider.
It is the physical and psychological growth from a shy, awkward teenager to a super hero who breaks down the house (to destroy bad people) that is the typical “golden” formula for a movie that eats well. guests on the silver screen.
The first three Spider-Man films released in the 2000s set a relatively high standard for later superhero movies. Now, a rare (reluctant) handshake between two major studios, Marvel and Sony, will usher in a new beginning for one of the screen’s most familiar comic characters.
Spider-Man is never enough
In 1999, the summer movie season didn’t spell out a superhero movie (hey, the top grossing films that year were films like Star Wars, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix and the Austin Powers sequel). Marvel is so broke that it has to sell off its most valuable children like Spider-Man, X-Men or Fantastic Four.
The results are known to everyone. Fox expanded the X-Men into a series of movies that now “beat each other” on the timeline. Fantastic Four is also by Fox…well, never mind. Sony welcomed Spider back to the palace, making a big deal with the start of three films with Tobey Maguire participating in.
Then Marvel “revived” with Iron Man in 2008 and gradually became a force in Hollywood. Other studios also began to follow Marvel’s strategy, a bit sad that in Sony’s hands only Spider-Man.
Arguing that if James Bond can do it, so can I – Sony decided to reboot Spidey’s world by prepping the title of Spider-Man from Amazing with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Instead of Mary Jane, Stone plays Gwen Stacey, Spider-Man’s previous lover.
The fate of these two Spidey parts is not very “super”. After a relatively resounding first part, the second part of 2014’s Amazing Spider-Man was overshadowed by the achievement of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy released just 3 months later. It’s also Sony’s worst-grossing movie ever.
This time Disney will “take action”
After “selling the dog for sale”, Marvel struggled with the remaining B-class characters in hand. They were surprisingly successful with Iron Man, and Disney quickly bought Marvel and built what we call the Marvel Cinematic Universe today with Thor, Captain America, Guardians of the Galaxy, and superheroes. other. But for fans, there is still a gap in the Avengers group waiting to be filled called Spider-Man.
Marvel’s president Kevin Feige has long aimed to bring home the Spider, and Sony, after the sadness of the name Spider-Man, needs to ensure a commercial success so as not to lose to its sisters in the money race between the franchises. big studio. What happened next was like a dream: Sony and Marvel teamed up to create a return for Spider-Man.
The problem is resolved as follows: Spidey will play supporting roles in Marvel movies like Captain America: Civil War and the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War. Disney will partner with Sony to make spin-offs about Spider-Man. The results so far have been pretty satisfying: just look at how delirious fans are sharing a cameo video of Spider-Man in Civil War.
We won’t have to watch the bloody “uncle Ben” again
The producer of Spider-Man: Homecoming cleverly crafted Peter Parker’s story so that audiences don’t have to re-watch the character’s tragedy: something we’ve already seen twice.
This movie will focus on how Spider-Man can balance between school life and the responsibilities of a superhero. 21-year-old Tom Holland is also much younger than his two predecessors: Tobey Maguire was 27 years old when he first played Spider-Man and Andrew Garfield was almost three years old (29 years old).
A universe awaits
The number of Spider-Man comics published is so large that there will certainly be no shortage of sources to make spin-off movies. Many projects have been green-lit, such as Venom starring Tom Hardy or a movie about two female characters Silver Sable and Black Cat.
Netizens even called for famous male singer Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) to make his own movie even though he still doesn’t know what his role in Homecoming is.
Despite many doubts about the “overeating” of Spider-Man, the box office has proven that the audience is still overwhelmed with heroes like James Bond, Batman, Han Solo no matter how many times they appear on the screen. Perhaps this time Spider-Man will not be an exception?
