When I first read this on another site and saw the kid's picture, I was kind of unhappy. I'm not too happy about this reboot and really dislike that they are apparently going with an early high school Spidey. Since my least favorite part of the whole series is anything featuring "Dark Spider-Man" AKA Emo Pete, I'm kind of afraid of what a younger take on the series might produce.
That being said, I completely forgot that this actor was (Young) President Bobby McAllister. I seriously loved that series (Jack & Bobby), and find it interesting that Logan Lerman is getting such exposure at the same time his on-screen mother (Christine Lahti) is doing Broadway and his on-screen brother is on that new show that gets promoted to death on ABC, The Deep End.
Oh, and I really liked (500) Days Of Summer. Thought it was a very original take on a story that's been told too many times. Marc Webb really did show that he can direct, but I don't know if someone with such an intimate and unique touch is necessarily right for a superhero fantasy blockbuster like Spider-Man. I mean you'd never ask Steven Soderbergh to direct X-Men, would you?
*ponders this and smiles*
So depending on the villain I just might see this new take on the series. I just don't understand why the studio didn't just trust Sam Raimi with the material. He created two truly fantastic comic book adaptations, the second of which is also one of the few sequels to not suck. Then the studio got involved with the villains and we got Spider-Man 3. Everything was looking kosher for the fourth installment, and once again the studio couldn't just trust the guy who made three tremendously successful films for them (not to mention everything previous to the franchise like, say, the Evil Dead series). So now we get this. Anyone want to make a bet on which we'll see first, Spider-Man 4 or Spider-Man: Turn Off The Ego?
Edited to add:
Oh and one last thing, I also remember this guy from The Butterfly Effect. It was a terribly underrated (or perhaps just terrible; it's hard to tell) movie and Logan Lerman played Ashton Kutcher's character at a younger age. He didn't have that many scenes, but in both that and the short-lived J&B, Lerman did some fine work.
Updated On: 2/4/10 at 11:14 PM
