Franchise Reboots

Hollywood has been in a pattern of reviving old franchises, for example the batman movies. Christopher Nolan reinvented what Tim Burton started by directing Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. This was a franchise reboot and one that was creative and made sense to make. This is not always the case with films though.

Spiderman has gone through 3 films and Sam Raimi was going to be directing number 4 but when Raimi was being pressured for a summer release and didn't feel he could deliver a quality film by then he dropped it. WIth Raimi out so was Toby Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. So what does the studio do? Gets a new director and plans to reboot the franchise.

Now with Batman the reboot made sense, Tim Burton made his films back in the 80s and they were very stylized films. Nolan needed to restart what had been built to create his vision. This Spiderman reboot is a back up plan for the fact that they cant continue Raimi's vision without him so they are rebooting it. It seems to be purely for a profit to push box office sales by having the Spiderman brand attatched to it.

This reboot is just feeding the audience the same thing they have been given before. I am worried that the popularity of rebooting franchises may lead to feeding the audience the same tasteless mush over and over again. This is a prejudiced rant I know, because I have not seen this new Spiderman franchise, but they are just restarting what was already built by films that were made not even 10 years ago. It hasn't even been a decade and they are sending Peter Parker back to high school because they can't think of anything else to do with him.

I hope that franchise reboots stay appropriate like some films have. Does anyone welcome this reboot for Spiderman? What do you think of the idea of rebooting film franchises?