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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:05 pm |
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http://www.latino-review.com/news/exclu ... -may-movieQuote: Here comes Trouble, and I might mean that literally.
It’s been obvious from the various and absolutely crazy rumors about upcoming Spider-Man movies that Sony is struggling to find a direction for the franchise and the crazier the rumors get the more it seems like they’d rather milk the property from every single angle rather than give the main character back to Marvel. What started as rumors of villain-centric series, The Sinister Six and Venom, has been transformed by the increasing chorus of disappointed sighs from Amazing Spider-Man 2 to Venom: Carnage and “a female lead Spider-Man movie” that might be a crazy movie codenamed Glass Ceiling that features female Spider-Man Universe characters that have never been team-up before in history, let alone on screen.
Now, it’s my solemn duty to put another wild Sony thrashing Spider-Movie on the pile of rumored Spider-Man movies. I was told by the Latino Review editorial brain-trust that this is completely true: Sony is pursuing an Aunt May movie.
Yes, an Aunt May movie. A movie about Aunt May as a youth, before she was shouldered with the responsibility of raising Peter Parker. The target mood is some sort of espionage story in the vein of AMC’s Mad Men, which sounds like a way of saying “classier Agent Carter” without name-dropping Marvel’s upcoming series.
But the whole point here is that I NOT mention Marvel, because Sony isn’t giving up the Spider-Verse before they make an attempt at a movie based on the completely fabricated past of May Parker. Well, the espionage part is fabricated.
Marvel, sorry for the name drop Sony, released a Mark Millar-penned romance mini-series in 2003 called Trouble that they thought would be the new origin of Spider-Man. It featured teenage versions of Aunt May, Uncle Ben, Richard and Mary Parker. Through a convoluted series of events, May gets teen-pregnant by Richard but gave up baby Peter to Mary who takes the secret of Peter’s true parentage to her grave.
Spider-Man fans were not happy and the story didn’t sell too well, so that was the end of any attempts to focus on young Aunt May and thereby Spider-Man’s origin reverted back to not-being-the-child-of-Aunt-May.
It seems odd that Sony would give this a try as a way to reboot Spider-Man like Trouble attempted, but using Aunt May as a Agent Peggy Carter replacement character might not have the emotional resonance that Carter has. I’d imagine it’s hard enough to make a successful period, female-lead, espionage thriller regardless of the main character’s future interactions with superheroes. I can’t imagine why Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, keepers of the Spider-Franchise, think that this is easier than Amazing Spider-Man 3. They’d be the two in charge of this endeavor and it seems unnecessary at best and disastrous at worst.
But that’s what we hear is really happening: Aunt May movie. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:33 pm |
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Auntie May, Auntie May Does her auntie things, every day She's a spy...What the fuck Will this fly? It will suck! Lookout! Here comes our Auntie May.
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:35 pm |
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 6:28 pm |
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Wow. I had no idea about the comic where Aunt May turned out to be Peter's mother. That's surprising coming from Millar.
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:59 pm |
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Marvel was ambiguous at the time about whether the Richard, Mary, Ben, and May were actually THE R,M,B, and M. The comic was awful. Had it been successful, the indication was that this indeed would have been incorporated into the Spider-Man mythos, but it was universally panned, so Marvel wisely ignored it and moved on.
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:34 pm |
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:45 pm |
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It's just an excuse to re-edit/re-dub and repackage old episodes of Gidget. 
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:51 pm |
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Good thing Fox doesn't own the rights to Aunt May, or we'd get this:  'course if the rights reverted back to Marvel, well... 
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 8:46 am |
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Night Owl wrote: Wow. I had no idea about the comic where Aunt May turned out to be Peter's mother. That's surprising coming from Millar. I would've been surprised if it had come from anyone but Millar.
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:47 am |
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No one remembers the panel featuring Aunt May holding out a condom and saying, "Face it Tiger, you just hit the jackpot!"?
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:13 am |
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 4:20 pm |
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RobertSwanderson wrote: No one remembers the panel featuring Aunt May holding out a condom and saying, "Face it Tiger, you just hit the jackpot!"?  I thought you were kidding. I just googled it 
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:05 pm |
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RobertSwanderson wrote: No one remembers the panel featuring Aunt May holding out a condom and saying, "Face it Tiger, you just hit the jackpot!"? Best laugh of the day! There's merit in the idea of doing a 'collected sayings of Swanderson'...I'd buy that for a dollar!
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:06 pm |
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Steve Kipling wrote: RobertSwanderson wrote: No one remembers the panel featuring Aunt May holding out a condom and saying, "Face it Tiger, you just hit the jackpot!"?  I thought you were kidding. I just googled it  ......whut.....?
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:08 pm |
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How dare you remind me this happened. 
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 6:18 pm |
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:24 pm |
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Fucking hell.....everyone involved in that should take Honey Boo Boo's place in the sun-rocket journey wished upon her....
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:45 pm |
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He stayed the night, and in the morning she made him wheatcakes.
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:45 pm |
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 8:21 pm |
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Turning Aunt May into an action hero doesn't sound so bad now...
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:12 pm |
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Mark Millar = talentless hack!!
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Post subject: Aunt May: The Movie (201?) Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:52 pm |
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Rafael wrote: Night Owl wrote: Wow. I had no idea about the comic where Aunt May turned out to be Peter's mother. That's surprising coming from Millar. I would've been surprised if it had come from anyone but Millar. I was gonna say. Flameboy's post looks like it's about the Mirror Universe Millar.
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