Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Peter Parker Will Probably Be In "Civil War"

Peter Parker
Every comic fan and Marvel Universe follower can now heave a sigh of relief because Peter Parker may be back as Spider-Man in the "Captain America: Civil War."

Ever since it was announced that Spider-Man was swinging his way back over to Marvel to join the studio’s ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), there has been debate over which secret identity the web-slinger would assume. Some casual fans, who are very few in numbers, but are really loud, proposed that Marvel should transition over to Miles Morales or Ben Reilly.

The problem is that, those two characters do not have a big fan base. Go out and ask somebody in the street if they know who is the man behind the Spider-Man mask and most probably, or about 90 percent will say its Peter Parker, while 5 percent don’t know a thing, while the rest are for Team Miles.

The anti-Parker group may argue that they have enough of his struggles, of Uncle Ben’s death, of vintage villains like Green Goblin and Dr. Octopus and they don’t have to sit for another round of Spider-Man story. They don’t appreciate the fact that comic purists want to explore more of Peter Parker compared to his trying-hard copy-cats.

Also, with the possibility of featuring a younger Parker, moviegoers will not have to endure the story of Peter transforming into Spidey again. Marvel and the MCU will be able to hit the ground running, leading right in to the standalone movie scheduled for28 July 2017.

Besides, there’s so much more to Peter that hasn’t been explored, properly, in the Spider-Man movies. Parker's character was so inseparable from the identity of Spider-Man; his rivalries were personal, his real life issues were more connected to his identity than with most other heroes. He was the one comics character where everyone really think of him more as his civilian identity than they do his superhero identity.

While fielding questions from fans on his popular tumblr account, Marvel’s Chief Creative Officer, Joe Quesada, was asked if he’d seen any visual concepts or early designs for the 2017 Spider-Man movie now on Marvel’s slate. He also was asked what he thought was the "main things [he] feels is most important" to making a successful Spider-Man film. And in his answer, Quesada tipped his cards, stating:

"The trick to making any incarnation of Spider-Man great, whether comics, animation or film is Peter Parker. Get Peter’s character right and the rest falls into place.""
With that, Quesada just confirmed what was mentioned in the first Marvel press release regarding the studio’s deal with Sony Pictures: The next Spider-Man – and the first version of the character made under the umbrella of the MCU – will be Peter Parker. Quesada wasn’t prompted about Peter Parker, yet he name-dropped the identity of the classic character.

With Parker's return almost complete, everyone can’t wait to see how he’s portrayed in an actual, legitimate Marvel movie.

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