14th January 2010, 10:52 PM
A reboot so soon is dumb, but I like your total reimagining as a Goonies style kid's story lazy.
Ditch the friend becoming the Hulk though. That's just leading into the "too many characters" issues that Spiderman 3 had. Never did like the "no one believes me because I'm just a KID" angle. Maybe just have Spiderman and a bunch of his kid friends, and when he becomes Spiderman he has to get all their help to be a hero and still be in time for schools and chores and such. One of them will be a zany inventor friend, and one will be fat without any other defining character attributes, because that's funny. The Goblin can be the school bully.
Ditch the friend becoming the Hulk though. That's just leading into the "too many characters" issues that Spiderman 3 had. Never did like the "no one believes me because I'm just a KID" angle. Maybe just have Spiderman and a bunch of his kid friends, and when he becomes Spiderman he has to get all their help to be a hero and still be in time for schools and chores and such. One of them will be a zany inventor friend, and one will be fat without any other defining character attributes, because that's funny. The Goblin can be the school bully.
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