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immaturityofthomasastruc · 2 years

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Can we just talk how miraculous masacres and wastes their lore?

They have around 100 miraculous and possible 1000 past miraculous wilders on their records

The past miraculous users being prominent figures in history (possibly) including freaking Jesus Christ

We’re is the in world implications? Like if any virus or empire or religion was formed by the miraculous

Where is the remmants of This? Like rivers of chocolate made by Tikki madness or plagg numerous catastrophes or the bug miraculous time breaking powers or any other effect of any unknown miraculous

Where is the enemies of the miraculous? This kids have literal planet bursters gods in their jewelry (which isn’t the first time someone this stupid has this powers like Hercules if he’s history’s are true) and the order of miraculous taking children to turn into guardians which some people would be against the sole existence of the order and their methods and would try to destroy the miraculous or monsters made by the miraculous (like if someone mixed some kinds of magic with the peacock or butterfly miraculous and made a race of beasts unable to be controlled or destroyed by the miraculous or something) or natural enemies to the miraculous (like demons or parasitic creatures who feed on the miraculous powers like creatures made of dark matter or something) what happens with the evil users of the miraculous (Gabriel couldn’t be the first,right? What about a evil tiger user or evil rooster user or evil bee user or a evil ladybug user searching for the miraculous for ages and how her obsession has basically forced her to make inhuman things to live a while more so she can get her dearly miraculous back making a parallel of how Marinette obsession if ripping her apart) what about evil Kwamis (we know they’re autonomous and plagg caused massive chaos and destruction so what if he was part of a gang of evil miraculous who obeyed no one but he got reformed and now he’s gang hates him and Tikki,of what if plagg destruction made a kwami into he’s enemy which has been getting rid of the other cat users for all the ages which could be used to make the heroes face a true threat by how they have to face this gargantuan monster which has killed all the more skilled cats before him or just a freak roaming around the planet causing chaos because he’s a sociopath)

Miraculous has a massive lore potential by how chaotic,present,uncontrollable and sacred the miraculous are but they’re treated more like plot tools instead of elements of this world (and the other heroes in New York make the miraculous more like if the power rangers existed in the MCU,just this weird guys in latex doing stupid posses fighting this ugly guy and he’s army of 90’s looking bad guys which wouldn’t look this pathetic and useless if Thanos wasn’t in the right he corner fighting captain marvel which would destroy the power ranger villain of this season making everything feel a bit less impactful and Not like a part of something bigger like the movies in the MCU but just a side quest) miraculous you had so much potential but waste it on repeating the same scenes with the same characters over and over again while everything else is wasted and burn to the ground

It honestly feels like the idea of past historical figures having Miraculous was just thrown in for the hell of it, because like the origin of the Miraculous themselves, it’s not really built on much.

The only time we really got a proper explanation about something like this in canon was showing how Marquis de Lafyette had the Eagle Miraculous, and that Joan of Arc had the Ladybug while she was a revolutionary.

Other than that, we know nothing about how and why the Miraculous were given to a bunch of famous historical figures other than to possibly inject real-world history into the worldbuilding, as flimsy as it is. Again, the only time the origins of the Miraculous have been properly explained was in a tie-in comic nobody actually got to read because it was cancelled before the first major story arc could even finish.

This is why it’s a terrible idea to spend so much time introducing other heroes and different power sets, because the history of the Miraculous themselves is barely touched upon in the show.

#immaturity of thomas astruc #iota #miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug salt #ml salt

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exterminate-flatscan-terrorists · 2 years

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I freakin HATE Humans in Marvel. Buncha arrogant FLATSCAN MUGGLE RACIST TRASH.

Where do they get the AUDACITY to DEMAND ANYTHING from Mutants!?

Seriously!? After all the MASACRES, brutal experiments, SLAVERY, GENOCIDE humans commited against Mutants,

Humans still have the F-ing AUDACITY to DEMAND things from Mutants,

As if the Mutants owe them anything. WTF.

Its like if Nazis DEMANDING Free Healthcare from Israel.

How F-ing dare they!?

The SHAMELESSNES of Humanity is F-ing irritating.

Are we gonna be THIS ARROGANT when we meet Aliens IRL? Are we gonna DEMAND that they give us their tech?

Ah, We're gonna try GENOCIDING THEM FIRST, and make the survivors APOLOGISE for not worshipping Humanity.

And then DEMAND them to hand over their tech as if its our RIGHT.

Mutants owe Humanity NOTHING but revenge. Any Alien species would NOT tolerate humanity's continued existence if humanity treated another species the way they treated Mutants. if An Alien race that got treated like that by Humans, those Aliens would have EXTERMINATED Humanity, and they would have that RIGHT.

I really WISH I could say the Humans in real life arent gonna be this ENTITLED racist pieces of Human Supremacist sons of whores, but judging by the FACT that the MAJORITY of the MCU fanbase are PRO TONY, PRO ACCORDS, PRO REGISTRATION ACTS sons of Bitches, I guess, yeah, IRL Humans are MAJORITY Racist against anyone who isn't a FLATSCAN Muggle. The MAJORITY are OK with shoving NonMuggles in Concentration Camps and Gulags , NO TRIAL, just Prison, experimentation, Concentration Camps for the crime of EXISTING. Through the MCU, we find out that TRULLY , Humans are totally gonna put Mutants to Gulags and to extinction. The MCU presented the Fambase with the Sokovia Accords, and these sons of bitches AGREED with it. This is not a fanbase that will be welcoming the XMen.

Magneto was and is RIGHT. Humans are SHIT, in the Marvel Multiverse and in real life.

and Tony, jeezus fucking crust, you hypocritical bastard. Can EVERYONE have your Ironman suit?? no? What happened to Extremis Tony? Did you share THAT with everyone? no? then SHUT THE FUCK UP, you hypocritical FLATSCAN MUGGLE TRASH Pro Registration BASTARD.

And mentioning Reed as if Reed was right in using CONVERSION THERAPY to his own son so that he'd stop being a Mutant? Tonys defending his racist anti mutant buddy?

And this BASTARD still wont address Emma's point. WHERE WAS TONY STARK whenever Mutants were put in concentration camps and massacred, or genocided in Genosha. "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN OUR BABIES WERE BURNING?" Answer the fucking question, Tony. its been 17 years since Emma asked that question. FLATSCAN MUGGLE Bastard still dont have a response.

The Fucking Humans keep ignoring everytime Mutants mentions the massacres, brutal experiments, concentration camps, GENOCIDE that Humans committed against Mutankind. No Human ever apologised, No Human ever even addressed it.

But these FLATSCAN MUGGLE HUMAN TRASH still expect Mutants to obey them, still expect the Mutants to fight to save Humanity.

I fucking hate how these stories keep glossing over Humanity's sins against Mutants and Super Humans... but yeah, I guess it is REALISTIC that the People who committed slavery , EXPERIMENTATION, Racism, mass murder, GENOCIDE, more mass murder, they NEVER do apologise, do they. Holocaust Deniers, Slavery Deniers, Armenian Genocide Deniers, the Rape of Nanking deniers, basically the horrible shit the Japanese Empire did in WW2, more Nazi shit. etc.

This is what happens when most of the comics writers are white I guess. Even in a fucking Comics story, they dont like to be reminded of what their kind did in the past.

Solution, let NonWhites write XMen. Have Humans apologise and give Reparations to Mutantkind for the DECADES of racism, and genocides. Lets at least have fictional Humans who arent SHIT. I get that its an absolute FANTASY to expect Racist Mass Murderring Impirialistic bastards to apologise for past sins, but lets at least have that fantasy be written in the comics. Having Humans, the Species of Racists Mass Murdering bastards, be made to apologise for the attrocities they commited should be a common trope. maybe telling stories that make a Race of Racist Mass Murderring bastards be made to at least APOLOGISE for all the mass murder will lead to actual Imperialistic Mass Murdering bastards to feel pressured about apologising for all the Drone bombs and carpet bombs or Jim Crow Laws or Slavery. We NEED to keep telling stories that at least makes the Racist Mass Murderers apologise. But instead, we get stories where the MAJORITY repeatedly GENOCIDES a minority, and gets away with it, and even have the audacity to make DEMANDS of the Minority for resources. wtf.

#x-men #marvel #marvel x-men #mutants #anti human #anti flatscan #anti muggle #FUCK FLATSCAN MUGGLE TRASH #anti tony stark #anti iron man #anti reed richards #emma frost #tony stark is a piece of sht #tony stark is an asshole #fuck tony stans #fuck tony stark stans #fuck tony stark #fuck tony stark fans

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justahappycloud · 4 months

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@duquesademiel tagged me to share my top 10 books (1) of the year so here they go in no specific order bc i read a lot this year and if i think too much about it i will combust (it's dec 30th, it's illegal to think too much)

but since it's still me, you also get a loose synopsis and we can pretend this is also a book rec list, okay? it's a win-win, i know.

📚 Babel: An Arcane History by R. F. Kuang

a postcolonial view of steampunk magic England from 1982. revolution and all its ugly but powerful reality. long, but really worth it.

📚 Cenizas de Carnaval by Mariana Travacio

a collection if short stories focused on the fragility of life. read it in august i think but i still think about the stiry of the man and the glue

📚 Under The Whispering Door by T. J. Klune

magic and grief and gay and death and gay and life and GAY. loved it. not as much as the house in the cerulean sea, but really loved it

📚 Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

reading this with sand under my feet and the sound of the ocean was one of my best ideas, ngl. interesting story, not one of my faves, but it was good

📚 A Spoonful of Murder by J. M. Hall

murder solved by retired teachers. 10/10

📚 The Embroidered Book by Kate Heartfield

the story of the life of marie antoinette and her sister charlotte except they can do magic. what are you waiting for??? go and read it!!

📚 Operación Masacre by Rodolfo Walsh

non-fiction retelling of the events that occurred on july 9th, 1956, when 12 civilians were arrested in Argentina before being illegally executed

📚 Orlando by Virginia Woolf

mock-biography of the famous poet of the 17th (and 18th, and 19th, and 20th) century, Orlando.

📚 The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl

fairytale retellings with a macabre twist, very focused on friendship and #girlpower [part of a duology]

📚 Nosotros dos en la tormenta by Eduardo Sacheri

historical fiction about two friends from opposing revolutionary units in 1975's Argentina

📚 A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

fantasy historical fiction about two members of the bureaucracy who represent two different worlds (that of magic humans and normal humans) who must work together when the imposition of one world over the other puts all of them at risk. [part of a series]

📚 The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

invented sports. found family. mafia. gay and ace. it reads like a fanfiction both derogatorily and affectionately, so read at your own risk, but i did read all three books in three days

📚 El Juguete Rabioso by Roberto Arlt

alternatively titled "Silvio Astier Tries To Be The Most Successful Thief Of Buenos Aires And Fails Spectacularly At It (HAPPY ENDING)"

📚 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

not a synopsis bc you know what the book's about but just a note to say that i had this books since my last year of highschool and only now i got to read it, so yay me, tying loose ends from the worst period of my life

📚 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhis

a prequel to jane eyre told from the point of view of bertha mason, previously known as antoinette cosway

📚 A Mercy by Toni Morrison

1680s story about a family of misfits and what happens to this group of slaves when the man who enslaved them dies

open tag bc if you made it this far i want to know what you've read so i can get recs for next year 👀

(1) sol fucked up so you get +10 recs, but you don't have to be insane like me and you can o it the normal way

#damn #i did read a lot in spanish this year #but good for me bc that's what i wanted hsjfsh #tag you're it #also i cheated with like three of these bc i read them for uni #but since i enjoyed them and they didn't feel like work i'll count them

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taiblogcomics · 2 months

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Slap-Happy Fun!

Hey there, paisanos. Well, we came to the end of Rainbow Brite way too early, but we sure enjoyed what we got, huh? A little bittersweet. However, it's left me in a bit of a cartoon mood. As such, I got a theme thing I wanna run through for a while. I got two different series, each six issues long, that both use toon physics as a major story feature, in somewhat different ways. And to start with, let's talk a little about the protagonis for our first series~

So, probably the comic would introduce the backstory itself, but why don't we go into detail here, then we won't have to during the comic review! To that end, here's our hero: Steve Harmon, AKA the awesome Slapstick. Steve was the class clown and loved pranks and tasteless jokes. He'd do very well on modern Youtube, but his original series came out in 1992. When he got caught before a prank could go off, he dressed up as a clown to sneak into a nearby carnival for revenge. However, before his plan could come about, he ends up pulled into Dimension X by the evil clowns runing the carnival, and is transformed into a living cartoon!

Now he's Slapstick, a being made of a mysterious substance called electroplasm. Slapstick can be stretched and beaten and suffer any number of horrible torments, but not actually hurt. He also has a pair of gloves that act as a pocket dimension he can pull objects out of, particularly his signature mallet. Slapstick eventually defeats the evil clowns, rescues his kidnapped classmates, and realises he just had a full-on superhero origin. Now he can go and fight crime! Pretty good for a new character in a four-issue miniseries in 1992!

Slapstick had relatively few appearances since then. He became a member of the New Warriors, and despite his cartoony personality, he was particularly loyal to his teammates, as seen in Avengers: The Initiative, which was his next major appearance. This was following Civil War in Marvel, just to put you on the timeline. It was about this time that Steve spent more and more time as Slapstick, and eventually lost the ability to turn back into his human self. Problem is, he's your average high school teenager swimming in hormones, and his cartoon self doesn't have, shall we say, "an outlet" for that. This is a plot point, believe it or not!

So, being frustrated in such a way, conscripted by the military, and all the bullshit he went through in said military, Slapstick became a little bitter and cynical. Not unpleasantly so, he's not dark and gritty or anything, he's just a bit grouchy. This is what leads to his next major appearance: Deadpool and the Mercs for Money. This team included, aside from Deadpool himself, Foolkiller, Solo, Stingray, Terror Inc., Masacre, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, and Hit-Monkey. Not a cheerful group! It was goofy, but they were also shooting people for money. In fact, most of them being unlikeable assholes is why Steve left the group and moved back in with his parents, which is where we find him now~

And after all that, here's the cover:

This cover (which is also the cover of the trade paperback I'm reading from) basically tells you everything you need to know. Here's Slapstick, living cartoon clown, who inhabits an otherwise realistic world. Well, as realistic as the Marvel Universe can be. But that's the best part. Slapstick is drawn with thick black outlines and minimal shading, standing out against all the other characters, who are rendered in a more realistically-drawn and properly shaded style. He really does look like a cartoon interacting with the real world. It's very good! Also, he commits unspeakable violence, as seen here. Like, this book is actually pretty violent and gory, and I will do my best to warn you when that's about to go down.

So we open in Bayonne, New Jersey, where a group of generic thugs are doing a crime down at the docks. It's not even past the first page before Slapstick appears, doing a cartoony violence on them to thwart their intended crimes. And I do mean a violence. You know, they shoot him, he plays like he's dead, then springs right back up and spits the bullets back at them. And he can spit the bullets at a machinegun speed. Or he knocks the teeth out of one guy's mouth, then hits the teeth with his mallet into another guy's eyes. Painful! Like, these first three pages are pretty violent. Use them as a litmus test!

These opening pages have just been a tale Steve (still in his Slapstick guise) has been telling at the dinner table, back in his hometown of Plainfield. His young niece and nephew are super into it, but the adults don't much care for his boasting. His parents don't much care for his non-traditional job, his brother Richard is only interested in his own IT work, and Richard's wife Portia thinks Steve ought to just give up being a mercenary and start a family. Mrs. Harmon tells her to downplay the idea, since Steve's "inability to perform his husbandly duties" is a sore point for him.

Steve leaves the table in disgust, which I think anybody would if their mom started talking about their "downstairs" problems at the dinner table. He storms outside and uses his phone to look for any ongoing merc jobs. Deadpool still hasn't figured out Steve's been using his log-in on MERK (the Uber for mercs!), so Slapstick's been swiping jobs off the system to spite his old boss. And he's found a listing for group of thieves breaking into the Edison Museum in West Orange, which is right nearby! Like, it gives a highway exit number and everything. If you learn nothing else from this comic, at least you'll learn some New Jersey geography!

Upon reaching the museum, Slapstick already finds himself on the right track: there's a sneaky shadow a-sneaking about on the roof! Upon jumping up to take a look, he encounters… the spectacular Spider-Man! Well, West Orange is pretty close to Manhattan, it's not out of the question. This was late 2016, so Spidey had just gotten his body back from Doc Ock and Parker Industries had not yet crashed and burned. He also notes it's been a while since he last teamed up with Slapstick, but Slapstick somehow doesn't recognise him at all. J. Jonah Jameson wishes he could be so lucky~

There's a brief fight, but Spidey easily dodges Slapstick's mallet swings, then trips him with a web-line. Slapstick recognises the move as one a buddy of his named Scarlet Spider used to do. Well, his debut was in the early '90s. Spidey's miffed to be compared to his clone, but both of them hunker down and clam up as the real thieves turn up. Slapstick slips off, pulls one of the goons away, and slips into his uniform, which looks ridiculous on his cartoon body. He then leads the rest of the goons into a nearby warehouse. A well-pulled ruse!

Slapstick begins beating up the goons, using their own gunfire to take out several of them. Spider-Man also soon enters, having heard the sound effects of "GUN GUN GUN GUN". No, I'm dead serious. Spidey's kind of appalled at all the blood, wondering what kind of superhero Slapstick is, acting like that. Slapstick is offended as well, being a "superhero" is a childish concept. Their argument doesn't keep up for much longer, as the goons resume shooting. Spidey goes back to non-lethally restraining them, like a loser non-mercenary, and Slapstick peels off to find the stolen loot he was hired to recover.

Down below, he encounters Quasimodo, a low-rent D-list Fantastic Four villain. Picture MODOK, but instead of a giant floating head, he's a hunchback man with He-Man action figure proportions. Ram-Man. Picture Ram-Man with a monocle, if he was in Tron. He also speaks in an incredibly robotic way, doing both the Elcor thing of stating intention before the sentence and using BASIC syntax. Actual dialogue: "10 DECLARE Soon none will dare mock Quasimodo--instead they will think he is hot stuff! 20 DECLARE Many of the Tinder dates will be mine! 30 LOOP Ha ha ha ha ha."

Slapstick leaps in to fight him, mostly to get him to shut up. He has the upperhand for a bit, but Quasimodo does a molecular scan and determines that Slapstick is made of electroplasm. And with that, he determines a particular frequency, firing a laser at Slapstick. He's at first skeptical, because nothing in this dimension has been able to hurt him thusfar. But then his arm actually begins to destabilise and melt. If he wasn't so cartoony, it'd probably be horrific. As it is, it looks mostly like a paint smear. Disturbing, certainly, but not graphic.

However, his arm doesn't totally slough off and dissolve, and Slapstick realises it can't be destabilised any further than it already is. So he uses his messed-up arm as a shield to get in close, then whacks Quasimodo big over the head with his mallet. Soon enough, Spider-Man comes in, having mopped up all the goons. Everything's good down here, too. Spidey reclaims the equipment for Parker Industries, and he splits, glad the team-up is over. Once he's gone, Slapstick lets the other shoe drop: he kept Quasimodo's involvement secret, stashing the villain before Spidey's arrival.

See, Slapstick's reasoned that if Quas here can find a frequency that destabilises his form a bit, perhaps he can find a way to undo it altogether. He's a little tired of being stuck in this form without access to his privates--plus, he still needs his arm restored anyway. But of course, why should a villain like Quasimodo help him? Why should he help any human? That's easy: since the accident, he ain't human. And besides, he doesn't want to imprison or coerce or trap Quas. No, in fact, what he wants is to hire him…

Next day, in New Brunswick, Slapstick does in fact have his arm back in working condition. No cure yet, but I'm sure he's working on it. This also confirms that Slapstick is indeed in his early 20s or 19 at the earliest--he and his buddy Mike are stated to be out of high school. In fact, they're here for a college football game! It's a fictional "New Jersey University", but given that they're in New Brunswick, it's likely a stand-in for Rutgers. Mike's glad things are looking up for Steve. He's hoping to pitch Slapstick's adventures as a graphic novel, and humorously the brief page he shows is in the style of the original 1992 series. Slapstick isn't impressed~

Mike, Slapstick, and his niece and nephew take a seat to watch the game, and the ref calls for mascots to clear the field. However, the brawny figure marching across the field ignores him, instead loudly declaring himself to be Bro-Man, Master of the Multiverse, and here to fight the Princess' champion. Mike muses that the guy looks kind of like Steve, and indeed, he's drawn in a similar flat-coloured thick-outlined style. The comic ends with the other team's mascot comes to clear the guy out, Bro-Man merely pulls out his sword, and gruesomely cleaves the guy in two. He's just another 3D sack of meat, not the champion he seeks…

Well, this is off to a pretty fun start. It's not like we're doing a gritty, dark reimagining or anything here, like I said. We're just contrasting a very silly character with the more realistic world around him--and frankly, he's a little sick of being the silly character, too. Basically it's Who Framed Roger Rabbit if Eddie Valiant was in Roger's body. Really, you can't blame poor Steve for his surly attitude. He got goofy-ass powers that eventually stopped turning off, got drafted into superhero boot camp where his former teammates' names were dragged through the mud (it was a whole thing), joined a mercenary group and then got kicked out of said group, had to move back in with his judgmental parents, and can't satisfy one of his basic needs as a human being--which he doesn't even resemble anymore. He's frustrated, it's understandable! Relatable, even. The violence and blood are a little high, but again, it's just to contrast him with the real world. Any cartoon would survive those injuries! So we'll see just how well he does against Bro-Man next time~

#comics #reviews #Slapstick #The Awesome Slapstick #Taiblog

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sintagma11 · 1 year

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Noticias más importantes de hoy

1. Jóvenes víctimas en Putumayo y Meta de masacres 😞

2. Ectolife: Laboratorio de úteros artificiales

3. Así levantaron el paro de buses en Ibagué

4. Evacúan siete municipios por Hidroituango

5. James Cameron vs Marvel

#Noticias #Orito #Putumayo #Ectolife #Paro buses #Ibagué #Hidroituango #James Cameron

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elgaberino-mcoc · 2 years

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Obscurity Check: Wolfsbane

One Summoner raised the question whether Wolfsbane is too obscure for Summoner's Choice.

Other Gabe compared her to Armor, who has been in the Summoner’s Choice event twice.

Armor’s Stats

ComicVine: ~1500 issues Fandom: 20 variants 3 games 0 movies 1 animated show Wishlist #66

Wolfsbane’s Stats

ComicVine: ~2500 issues Fandom: 65 variants 3 games 1 movie 3 animated shows Wishlist #45

Other Comparisons

Significantly more obscure characters in the game or from Summoner’s Choice events include Kushala, Darkhawk, Night Thrasher, Masacre, Spot, Mister Negative, Warlock, Doctor Voodoo, Angela, Mangog, Rintrah, Psycho-Man, Blue Marvel, maybe the Superior and Infamous IM variations, and (until recent mainstreaming by movies or Disney Plus) Hela, Elsa Bloodstone, and Peni Parker

Conclusion: Wolfsbane is not too obscure for Summoner’s Choice or for Marvel Contest of Champions

#Wolfsbane #wolf #mystic totem canine #canine #therianthropic #lycanthropy #catholic #female #moon phases #Lacerate #Rupture #Terrorize #Scottish #mcoc class mutant #New Mutants #obscurity check #recent rank #hero #werewolf

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jedivoodoochile · 2 years

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Algo que llama mucho la atención es la cantidad de millones de dólares que se gastan en películas que nunca llegan a realizarse. Años de trabajo archivados en una bóveda.

Con el correr del tiempo, muchos involucrados en estos proyectos han hablado e incluso hecho documentales al respecto.

La historia de Cannon Films es fascinante, sobre todo la era en la cual los primos israelitas Menahem Golan y Yoram Globus estuvieron a cargo.

Hay un documental maravilloso llamado Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) que cuenta todo esto.

La cuestión es que en uno de esos avatares, en 1985 los primos llegan a un acuerdo con Marvel (vía Stan Lee) de pagar 225 mil dólares a lo largo de cinco años para hacer una película de Spider-man. La condición era que si para abril de 1990 no conseguían hacerla los derechos le volvían a la editorial.

Por su parte, Marvel se quedaba con un treinta por ciento de las ganancias del eventual film.

Era un tiempo en el cual Cannon estaba apostando fuerte ya que también había adquirido los derechos de Superman y de He-Man, lo que resultó en las fallidas (y muy baratas) cintas estrenadas en 1987.

Al mismo tiempo que sucedía eso, se le empezó a dar forma a la película del Hombre Araña que cambió de fecha de estreno tres veces: 1987, 1988 y 1989.

El director al cual primero encararon fue a Tobe Hooper (La Masacre de Texas, 1974) ya que los productores tenían en su mente hacer un film de terror. El guionista contratado fue Leslie Stevens, conocido por haber sido el creador de la serie The Outer Limits (1963-1965).

La historia se basaba en un Peter Parker que de a poco se iba transformando en una araña gigante. La idea no llegó a ningún lado y contrataron al director Joseph Zito, quien se caracterizaba por dirigir films de bajo presupuesto, siendo Viernes 13: El capítulo Final (1984) su obra más reconocida. Zito trabajó un año junto a los nuevos guionistas contratados Ted Newson y John Brancato, este último escribió más tarde Terminator 3: La rebelión de las máquinas (2003).

Esta historia era bastante más fiel a los comics y tenía al Doctor Octavius como mentor de Peter y luego como el villano Doc Oct. Curiosamente, muchos de los elementos de este guión son similares a lo que luego vimos en Spider-man 2 (2004) de Sam Raimi, tales como la fuerza de energía que Octavius había creado.

Casting

Pese a los contantes cambios de guión, se fijó fecha de rodaje para 1988 y se empezó a hablar con actores.

Tom Cruise era la primera opción para encarnar al héroe, pero esto quedó en la nada y solo una reunión fue llevada a cabo, Bob Hoskins era el elegido de Zito para el villano, y las legendarias Lauren Bacall o Katharine Hepburn eran objetivos a alcanzar para que puedan ponerse en la piel de la Tía May.

El dato loco es que Stan Lee quería hacer de J.J Jameson.

Antes de que Zito dejara el proyecto, casteó al doble de riesgo Scott Leva en el rol principal. Leva era quien estaba haciendo las fotos promocionales y el famoso teaser. Y también fue durante mucho tiempo el “Spider-man oficial” para Marvel en actos y convenciones.

Para el director era un desafío, pero decía que el actor podía llevar adelante el rol y su presencia física y experiencia en acrobacias eran determinantes para las partes de las que Peter tenía que lucirse sin el traje puesto.

Iba a ser la película más cara de Cannon, con un presupuesto que superaría los 20 millones de dólares. Pero los problemas financieros que acarreaban desde el fracaso de Masters of the Universe y Superman IV no dejaron avanzar el proyecto.

Finalmente llegó la fecha deadline para los derechos, aunque hubo una suerte de prorroga hasta 1992, lo que ocasionó unos cuentos tecnicismos legales y grandes problemas para la franquicia, motivo por el cual el gran proyecto que tenía planeado James Cameron nunca pudo realizarse.

Pero eso es parte de otra historia.

#spider man #cannon films

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