This is only surprising to those unfamiliar with the production process of mega franchises like Spider-Man, but THR is reporting that Sony has already given Jame Vanderbilt the green light to start working on the sequel before they’ve even wrapped filming on the first one.
Source: THR
James Vanderbilt, who penned Amazing, will be back behind the keyboard for the continuation of the new movie franchise.
Vanderbilt had a meeting with the Spider-Man filmmakers and studio execs yesterday outlining his take, getting a thumbs up, and will now begin writing.
Vanderbilt has become part of the Spider-Man family at Columbia, which has enjoyed great success with a tightknit group of creative people. Vanderbilt first worked on Spider-Man 4 for the studio, back when Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire were planning to continue the series.
This news is very unsurprising as I’m sure they’d like to keep things moving smoothly at Sony before Marvel and Disney re-think this whole thing with Sony handling their flagship comic character. I’m still looking forward to the eventual release of the Amazing Spider-Man and I hope by the time I walk out the theater I look back at this news piece with more excitement.
I’m excited to see the first one, it’s weird because Andrew Garfield is 27 or 28 and I think he can pull off high school better than Tobey Maguire did. Anyway, the man’s a wonderful actor so I’m excited to see what he does with the role. I don’t think there’s any doubt that it will make enough money to immediately commission a sequel, so it makes sense that they would have another script ready to go.
Yeah I am with 420 I am not one of those people who say why reboot because the more you put out the more possible entertainment I have to take in.
Keep em’ coming!