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Zac Efron is Spidey?!?!

Peter Parker's going back to high school... musical?

OMG! OMG!   OK! Magazine just reported that Zac Efron is the new Spider-Man!

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And he’s getting paid £9 million, no less! Is that more than $10 million?   And Vanessa Hudgens is slated to be the new Mary Jane, totally reuniting them from HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL!   And they’ll be working for … Universal Studios?

Wait, Spidey 4’s owned by Sony.

While the prospect of Universal pulling a NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN and making their own rival Spider-Man movie tickles me, the prospect's also thoroughly unbelievable, like most of what gets “reported” in this British tabloid.   If a mistake as glaring as confusing Sony with Universal can get past their fact-checker, you have to question the veracity of the rest of the article.

 The Riddler?
 The Riddler?

Hey, listen, I’m not saying this couldn’t prove true.   Maybe it’ll happen eventually, maybe not, but for now, I’d say you can trust this scoop as much as you can trust the scoops from a while back about Eddie Murphy playing the Riddler and Cher playing Catwoman in BATMAN 3.     Or the reports last week of Clive Owen being pegged as playing Kraven in Spidey 4 - - reports that were news to him.  

Like bubbles in your bathtub, these “rumors” and “insider tips” seem to just pop into existence. 
 

Spidey or not, Efron’s going to get his comics connection anyway when he stars in the big screen adaptation of Bendis’ spy thriller FIRE.   In the mean time, maybe the Comic Vine community ought to do its own little fantasy football draft.   Would Efron stand toe-to-toe with Owen?   If not them, then who else should fill Spider-Man and Kraven’s shoes? And, most importantly, why haven’t any rumors circulated about Aunt May yet? Who should play the new Aunt May?!  

--Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Comics and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia Comics.   Watch out for the HYBRID BASTARDS! hardcover collection this March - - available for pre-order now on Amazon.com

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no no no a thousand times no !

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I've got no problem with it

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If he get's a haircut I'm ok... the damn hippy.

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Make sure he is geeky enough...

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sigh......
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Terrible news! 
First the rumors that he would play Martin McFly in Back to the Future remake (thank God it was only a false rumor) and now this! Obviously they are looking to attract young audiences. Where's the money ...

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT CAN'T BE TRUE, IT JUST CAN'T! Firstly, because Efron is all wrong for the part, secondly cause Mary Jane is a redhead and thirdly, they'll turn it into a goddamn singing/dancing nightmare. 
 
(Cut to a scene from the Batman show in the 60s replacing Batman with Spidey). 
Spider-Man beats all the villains up, then music starts playing.

All the villains get up and dance along while Spidey starts singing. 
 
I wake up screaming.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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....I don't know how I feel about this.  
 
Just remeber how everyone wasn't sure how they felt about Heath Ledger playing the Joker and looked how this turned out.
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I wouldn't mind Zac Efron as Spiderman. (: but Vanessa as Mary Jane? NO WAY.  But OK! Magazine isn't the most reliable source anyway ...
 
As I have said time and time again. (: they should include the cast from the Spiderman Musical.  Reeve Carney. 

 Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane
 Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane
 Reeve Carney as Peter Parker
 Reeve Carney as Peter Parker
   Ala n Cumming as Green Goblin
  Ala n Cumming as Green Goblin
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Ya, know. I could be okay with this. if this is true. I'm pretty sure everyone had the same "OH GOD NO!"  
reaction when they first announced Heath Ledger  as the new Joker, and look what he did for the role..so I'm willing to roll with it.

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could be cool
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Although I must say the  whole Vanessa as Mary Jane thing. gives me head pains a little. 

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NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

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It is going to fucking suck

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ooo ooo oo   or ... 
 Shia LaBeouf  as Peter. Emma Stone as MJ  and Taylor Momsen as Gwen Stacy.

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Perfection. ^^
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Wow everyone way to overreact and not read the article. This is just a rumor, put down the torches and pitchforks.

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@AngelFrost said:
"ooo ooo oo   or ... 
 Shia LaBeouf  as Peter. Emma Stone as MJ  and Taylor Momsen as Gwen Stacy.

 
 
   Perfection. ^^ "

I like Shia, but no way as Spidey.  To old for highschool.  but all these rumors are proving me right.  Now with this new director they're turning into Twilight.  WEAK!!!
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 OK! Magazine is full of it as seen on the soup but if its true  
 
i hate HSM but 17 again was good

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@goldenkey said:

" @AngelFrost said:

"ooo ooo oo   or ... 
 Shia LaBeouf  as Peter. Emma Stone as MJ  and Taylor Momsen as Gwen Stacy.

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   Perfection. ^^ "
I like Shia, but no way as Spidey.  To old for highschool.  but all these rumors are proving me right.  Now with this new director they're turning into Twilight.  WEAK!!! "

 think Shia would be good at Peter.  (: He has a geeky side to him, which is good and that 'everyday'  guy sort of look. Tobey McGuire played Peter in High School when he was about 26 years old
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I like Emma Stone
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i think a puppy just died after reading this rumor! ZAC EFRON IS A PUPPY KILLER!! DO NOT LET HIM NEAR THIS FRANCHISE!!!

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I'm saying this doesn't turn out to be true. It could also turn out to be hilarious so I think I'm happy either way.

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Screw Aunt may whos gonna play the new J jonah jameson!? J.K. simmons was jjj I dont know who could play him better then that.
 
I dont mind the zach efron casting, his new movie hes in is getting rave reviews for his acting chops. but please no vannessa hudgens, even though i know this is a rumor and most likly not true but still no vanessa. 
Well they mentioned Spider-man will be cast by an unknown which im very happy to hear. I want to know who the badguys will be. Will they re do green goblin? or will they bring in some badguys that havent been done yet for the reboot like batman begins did?
 
Ah so many questions.

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I have no intrerest in the Spider-Man movie franchise anymore, but now I really know I'm not gonna watch it.

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 "Like bubbles in your bathtub, these “rumors” and “insider tips” seem to just pop into existence."  tub thumping? lol never was a fan of Chumbawamba but if I get knocked down I will get up again lol

As far as who is playing Peter I don't particularly care hopefully the studio and casting people choose the right person.

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@AngelFrost said:
"@goldenkey said:

" @AngelFrost said:

"ooo ooo oo   or ... 
 Shia LaBeouf  as Peter. Emma Stone as MJ  and Taylor Momsen as Gwen Stacy.

 
 
   Perfection. ^^ "
I like Shia, but no way as Spidey.  To old for highschool.  but all these rumors are proving me right.  Now with this new director they're turning into Twilight.  WEAK!!! "
I   think Shia would be good at Peter.  (: He has a geeky side to him, which is good and that 'everyday'  guy sort of look. Tobey McGuire played Peter in High School when he was about 26 years old "

@AngelFrost:  
Yup ! No mention that he'd already played a teen in transformers ! 
 
But  Emma Stone and Taylor Momsen looks like evil beauty meet detox...(Maybe it's the picture...
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OK! Magazine need to check their calendar, it's not April fool's day yet...

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YES!!

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Well there is another movie I won't be seeing

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@LB70145:  oh i read it hence my reaction , granted hello /olk etc magazines are full of complete rubish so hopefully its not even remotly true ,  but on the off chance it is i wanted to voice my disgust, also i wasnt phased by dark knight ledger comment  and iam glad sicne he was brilliant , this thou probably untrue just seems hugely wrong
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I don't see why people start panic at this rumors. First of all, they are just rumors. Second, look what happened with the Dark Knight. The news came out that Heath Ledger was going to be Joker, and everyone wasn't sure if he could pull it off. He ended up doing an amazing job. So no matter who they choose, I'm not going to get upset over until I see how they can do.

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If he can do it right, I'll be happy for him. People in his situation, like robert pattinson, need something like this, a chance to get haters that form their opinions of them off of works of fiction off their back.

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Are we 100% this isn't for the Spider-man Musical they are always going on about?? lol
 
If this could be true. I really wont be seeing this.

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@FoxxFireArt said:
" Are we 100% this isn't for the Spider-man Musical they are always going on about?? lol  If this could be true. I really wont be seeing this. "
Agreed Spidey is NOT a pretty boy they are doing the movie when he was in high school when he was a MEGA nerd. Plus Zack looks nothing like him and has no muscle to him lol
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he is playing jonny quest ? 

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@Son_of_Magnus: 
Well, I more mean that I won't want to be sitting in the theater with a bunch of prepubescent girls squealing every time he says a line or makes some look.
 
It's one thing to set Spider-man in high school. It's a whole other matter for the story to be "high school".
I recently talked about the issue of casting movie actors for comic based movies in my blog on Comic Vine.
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Ok, someone just kill me.
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i'm expecting this to be an awful film anyways and if they cast Efron it just about proves my worst fear: This is going to be a high school drama film. Lame!  
 
Shia might make a good Spiderman though..... looks right and can do geek..... hmmmmm.......... 
 
Emma stone (never heard of her) has one of the strangest faces i have ever seen and Momsen (who again i have never heard of) look sooooooooooo stoned in that picture.

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@FoxxFireArt: I will have to read it the next time I get the chance but ya little girls are so annoying like when I saw My Chemical Romance last year a local band Jersey I was into and going top shows years before they became famous and little girls ruined it for me.
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COME ON!!!!!!! 
 

 
 
 
Stop this dumb sh!t...son
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@Prizm said:
" Ok, someone just kill me. "
i'll be up in a minute.
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(Deep breath) 
 
 
NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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Please...... let this be just a rumor....... please.....

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jesus. I hate Zac Fag-ron. I will not be seeing the new Spider-Man. anyway. 
 
I decided it was gonna suck when Raimi left. Never been a big Spider-Man fan, and Raimi was the Selling point on the original films for me. Marc Webb + Zac Effron = Teen Wet Dream Garbage.
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@goldenkey said:
" @AngelFrost said:
"ooo ooo oo   or ... 
 Shia LaBeouf  as Peter. Emma Stone as MJ  and Taylor Momsen as Gwen Stacy.

No Caption Provided
   Perfection. ^^ "
I like Shia, but no way as Spidey.  To old for highschool.  but all these rumors are proving me right.  Now with this new director they're turning into Twilight.  WEAK!!! "
Rumours can't prove anything. They're rumours, meaning they are unsubstantiated. Casting hasn't happened yet so we're just going to get more rumours until then. That's how it goes. 
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Excuse me? Are you bloody kidding me?! 
They have the BALLS to even consider the idiot of an actor that is Zac Efron, to play one of the world's most cherished superheroes?!!!! 
 
NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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This can't be right. They only have 80 million dollars to make the film. 10 million dollars to this idiot would be a good chunk of the budget. They're looking for an unknown, like Thor did or Captain America. That makes sequels that much cheaper as well if they start low in budget and experience. 
 
Marc Webb has only done ONE movie before and has been signed on as director. Whoever they get for Spiderman, MJ (If they have her), and anyone else will probably be an obscure nobody that no one ever heard of. Why? Because they simply are being smart with this one. Sign them up for a three movie contract, and you got a bargain. I say, they should introduce as many characters as they can in the first movie, so they can have as many as possible signed on for a good, well-connected trilogy. I'd like to see three films that fit together closer than the last three, like Back to the Future or Lord of the Rings did. The best sequels are the ones that pick up right after the first one is over. I just hope Spiderman goes in that direction now.
 
Like if they have Norman Osborn or Quentin Beck in the first, but not become a villain until the third movie, that would be sweet.

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COME ON!!!!!!! 
 

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that made my day :)
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@AngelFrost said:
" ooo ooo oo   or ... 
 Shia LaBeouf  as Peter. Emma Stone as MJ  and Taylor Momsen as Gwen Stacy.

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   Perfection. ^^ "
I actually like these choices.