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BREAKING: Star Trek scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have been tapped by Sony Pictures to rewrite the script for the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man, the 3D Marc Webb-directed film that introduces Andrew Garfield as the webslinger and Emma Stone as his love interest Gwen Stacy. Sony releases the franchise relaunch July 3. The first draft was done by Amazing Spider-Man scribe James Vanderbilt. Sony has tentatively scheduled production for the first quarter of 2013.
Kurtzman & Orci are no strangers to event-sized movies. Aside from Star Trek and the upcoming sequel, which they wrote along with Damon Lindelof, their credits include two Transformers films and Mission: Impossible III. They are repped by CAA and attorney Michael Gendler. The duo will receive exec producer credits on the Spider-Man sequel, which is produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach and the late Laura Ziskin.
Said Tolmach: “Alex and Bob have a unique ability to write great character and spectacular action that makes them pitch perfect for Spider-Man. They’ve been friends of ours for a long time and they have an exciting take on the franchise — we’re thrilled to have them join the Spider-Man family.”
Said Kurtzman and Orci: “We grew up as huge Spider-Man fans so, to us, the opportunity to work on this film is akin to being handed the Holy Grail. We love the direction Sony and the filmmakers are taking the Peter Parker/Spider-Man mythology and we couldn’t be more excited to be a part of this legendary franchise.”
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I don’t know… I put the blame of Cowboys and Aliens squarely on their shoulders.
This isn’t moving the needle much.
Really? Did you read their script for Cowboys & Aliens? It was a hell of a lot better than the final film.
Twas horrible dude…
I have come to the conclusion that these guys aren’t very good writers, Star Trek is good because of JJ Abrams. Cowboys & Aliens is what happens when these guys run the show. I just don’t see it being a good fit.
They write fun, exciting projects but also lazy writers, leaving big plotholes everywhere and putting style over substance. They’re not selling the steak or the sizzle, they’re just selling you a picture of a steak that you’re never gonna get, but it’s a really good picture.
Contrast their big empty MI3 with Brad Bird’s tight, smart MI4 and difference is amazing.
I could not have said it better myself. I loathed how they ended Star Trek by promoting Kirk from cadet to Captain. Yes I know it’s fiction but it was such a lazy storytelling device IMO.
“We’ve written the whole movie and Kirk is still a cadet. . . Let’s just warp him to Captain! What could possibly go wrong?”
I have yet to see a film they wrote that didn’t leave me rolling my eyes and shaking my head. And I can normally forgive A LOT.
Makes one wonder what happened to the script that James Vanderbilt was hired to write about a year ago. Are these two rewriting it? Starting from scratch?
Did you even read it or just saw the title and decided to weigh in?
ugh.
I’m sure this will make the very creepy and old ‘in the comic book’ nerd crowd happy.
It also gives the content farming fan boy media sites something to declare victory about.
I think someone at work joked about it promoted on Ellen or something.
Right, it’s not even released yet. Yawn
Perhaps you just didn’t know this but Orci-Kurtzman are infamous for NOT donig what’s “in the comic book.” Don’t know where you got it that they were.
They are popular with no one but a very small circle of studio suits and maybe J.J. Abrams.
Is there a greater example of poor writing constantly being rewarded than these two?
Spare me the, “They find a great way in…” crap.
To anyone with a modicum of reading comprehension, ten pages of any script they’ve written proves they are poor writers. Their prose is clunky and weak. Their dialogue is laughable. Their plotting is porous at best.
Their movies have made money in spite of their scripts, not because of them.
Executives just want to protect their pathetic jobs by hiring credits. Instead try should hire the best writers– problem is that it is easier to read credits than have the intelligence required to truly evaluate written material.
Plus coward execs can hide behind the credits and protect their jobs if project tanks.
What if Spike Lee direct Kurtzman and Orci’s Spiderman script? Fireworks. He would be the intensity of Malcolm X and Inside Man to Spidey.
They should’ve given this to the X-Men First Class guys, or at the very least, a younger writer with a fresh voice.
From the guys that did Transformers! Fuck no!
I’m so sick of all the transformers bashing, do you know how much money this movie made — i’m sorry but if the movie was not that good, it would not have made THAT much money and truthfully they were popcorn movies. Cowboys and aliens is another story….
And mission Impossible 3 nearly killed Tom Cruise’s career and the M:I franchise.
And The Island bombed, as did Cowboys and Aliens. Unless it’s an already established franchise O&C can’t avoid failing.
At this point I think they’re running out of franchises to hijack.
Um… Mission: Impossible III was by far the best of the first three films. I don’t think it was that film that hurt Cruise’s career. In fact, didn’t Paramount try to salvage the battle with him in order to keep MI4 a possibility?
Transformers sucked man!!! Just because you bought the snow-globe DVD pack with the talking Optimus doesn’t give you the right to weigh in.
After seeing the preview of the rebooted spiderman — it seems like i’m not that interested in seeing it redone when it was done so well with sam raimi. I will never understand why they didn’t go forward with a spiderman 4 when they had the cast and director back but that’s in the past. I’m just saying i’d be more excited to see spiderman 4 than to watch the whole origin thing all over again.
Agreed. I have little to no interest in seeing what feels like a very unnecessary reboot.
They aren’t “doing the origin all over again”. In a way, yes, they are, but this will be a much more modern and realistic take on the lore. For instance, as seen in the trailer, Captain Stacy puts out an arrest warrant on Spider-Man for being a vigilante, something that would ACTUALLY happen in real life. Also, most of this film will surround the mystery of his parents’ disappearance (his father was only given a mention in the first Raimi film and was only referred to as “father”). But you also seem to not understand why the film was rebooted. The franchise was getting tired, and Sony didn’t think Raimi’s plan for a fourth was very promising (Vulture was the villain and Felicia Hardy wouldn’t be the Black Cat, she would be “the Vulturess” who’d be Vulture’s daughter) so they planned this reboot in advance, WAY before S-M4 was shitcanned.
Golly, fanboy. Get your facts right. The series was “rebooted” when Raimi was worn out and wouldn’t work on the schedule the studio wanted, and the studio was worried the rights would revert back to Marvel.
None these reasons you’ve listed light a fire under me to go see this “re-boot.”
Gee, didn’t know Sony was so depserate to start losing money again.
First they toss out Raimi, then bring in these two?
You know, I was going to dump on Orci & Kurtzman, but since everybody else is doing it I think I’ll bask in them getting the credit they deserve.
Rewrite? Anyone else have the feeling this will be the same disaster as the A-Team?
hahahahahaha
yeah the A-TEAM was just lame all the way around
Fox is still mopping up the red ink
Mission 3 did not damage Cruise’s career – he did the damage on that one. The film itself was just fine for what it was. Better than the second film.
Star Trek was well done.
How exactly does Favreau the useless director and the charmless Daniel Craig escape part of the blame for Cowboys and Aliens? That’s selective at best.
And everyone knows Bay runs Transformers – the writers on those and indeed any of his films are surplus requirements.
They’re not THAT bad compared to others in the field. Jesus, it could have been the folks who shat out Battleship or G.I Joe they hired. Or worse……….Pirates.
I was hoping they werer rewriting the reboot! A rewrite of a movie that has already been shot, now there’s a challenge.
These guys aren’t very popular with the fanboys you’re referring to…
It’s all going to be for nothing. From the looks of the “new” Spiderman movie, it’s gonna be a “bomb” (hello Superman Returns). My best guess is that the movie will have an opening weekend gross of $65-70 million with a total domestic run of around $140-150 million. Worldwide total just under 300 million.
Unless the film is exceptionally good, I think you’re right about this. Normally I would have thought that it would perform similarly to Hancock from 2008. Sandwiched between Iron Man and The Dark Knight it managed about $60m opening, about $225m domestic and nearly $400m international. Spider-Man has a 3-D bump this time and is more loved overseas than Batman, but it only has one week before Ice Age 4 drops. Ice Age films are huge in foreign markets and the flick will draw off enough screens and families here to make a dent, too.
Anyone who knows anything about the production of Cowboys knows damn well that the piece of crap falls squarely on the shoulders of Favreau. The script was so-so (which puts it way above the norm), the film was awful – and being an un-collaborative ego that Favreau is, he took his swing and almost took down a studio.
It was almost as bad as Iron Man 2.
At least he is in director jail now and stuck doing TV.
Director Jail? He’s directing The Magic Kingdom feature at Disney. It’s only when that picture bombs that he goes to director jail. But someone at WB will be so desperate to launch another DC hero franchise that they’ll rescue him just in time to greenlight a Teen Titans feature.
This will be interesting…not gonna bash anyone quite yet. Have to see it first. Anything will be better than Raimis portrayal of Venom. He butchered one of the most significant villians in the Spiderman franchise.
The Phantom Menace made a lot of money too. But that’s also a piece of shit.
Transformers sucked!making money is another thing,people go to theatre to see the big effects.bt I dont blame the writers… I mean who can refuse 8 M to write a script full of ‘eye candy?’thats wat sells,n remember non-creative studio heads dont care bout palm d’or,they do movies that sell.