So, the new Spidey trailer is here and, surprise surprise, he's gone dark. Not eyeliner and sweepy hair dark, but troubled and enigmatic dark. I know this obvious move has been criticised quite extensively on various sites, but I can't honestly say I mind.
I know that Spider-Man's is the light hearted comic, whereas Batman's story arcs generally have the monopoly on murky motivations and more violent characters, but if the Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire trilogy represents a faithful adaptation of the character, then I am afraid I am ready for someone with a little more bite to reinterpret Spidey.
Not that I don't love Raimi - I absolutely do - but the Spider-Man films were all disappointing, with one and two being only mildly disappointing and the third rating somewhere near disastrous. In this climate of constant re-makes and re-boots, it's easy to write this off as a money-spinner: using a well-known brand to get bums on seats. But the trailer promises to unveil some of Peter Parker's past, concerning his parents, that the previous films haven't touched, so we can safely say that there will be some new material. I could do without the Twi-like intro music, but that's only a tiny moan. Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy is all kinds of better than the dreary Kirsten Dunst (who wasn't Gwen, I know, but MJ was the leading lady for the origin story so is more applicable here - as a side note I do quite like Bryce DH but she was in the third one, so I am ignoring her). And don't have to even try to imagine that Andrew Garfield will be better than Maguire whose casting I always lamented, after Garfield's performance in The Social Network. The trailer finishes off with some pretty good POV climby-spidey stuff, which looks fun, although not quite as epic as the swinging through the streets that was pretty iconic in the Raimi films.
All in all, I am pretty excited about this re-boot ... not a set of words I imagine I will use very often.
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