Adding Spoiler TV to my Google Reader was a pretty good idea. The site seems to have an in with a casting director somewhere, as they get all sorts of casting notices. The latest has put the internet in an uproar: a red-headed baby for Spider-Man 4!
Could this be Peter and Mary Jane’s child, everyone wonders. Could it be that Spider-Man 4 opens with Pete and MJ not just married but settled down?
I doubt it. A lot. I don’t have any special information on this one, but the idea of opening the next Spidey movie that in media res doesn’t quite gibe for me. We’re skipping huge and important chunks of Peter Parker’s life, and huge chunks that could be dramatic and interesting. If I had to guess, I’d say that Mary Jane has a nephew/niece who comes into her life, and Peter has to figure out how to be Spider-Man while still taking care of this kid. Or at the very least the kid raises the specter of the couple’s future.
If this baby is Peter and Mary Jane’s, it wouldn’t be without precedent. During the very dark (and I don’t mean tonally, I mean for the fans) Clone Saga, Peter knocked up MJ; the kid was stillborn, but survived in an alternate reality and was a daughter. I don’t think the kid has ever been brought up again in the regular Marvel Universe; like much of what happened to Spider-Man in the 90s and early 00s it’s too lame to include in continuity. This is why you’ll never again read about how Spider-Man once bit a guy to death.
Making this baby be Peter and MJ’s actual kid feels like bad storytelling to me. Having Peter go through the crisis of conscience over whether or not he wants to risk bringing a baby into his life, and whether or not he’d have to give up being Spider-Man and, most importantly, whether or not that baby would be a mutant freak thanks to dad’s spider-powers, would make for an interesting installment in the film series.
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Hopefully, it will be a dream sequence or something like that. Adding kids is a terrible idea to any movie. Why has no one learned that.
The child wasn't stillborn, it was never revealed what happened to the child. Doesn't matter anyway since Peter Parker sold his marriage to the devil to save Aunt May. Thanks Joe Quesada!
Clearly Mary Jane is going to be shot with a de-aging ray, and Peter Parker has a crisis of conscience over whether or not it's OK to have sex with her.
If I remember right, Norman Osborne took Peter and MJ's baby, bribing the doctor to say that it was stillborn. Since this has never again been brought up in the comics, I imagine Norman sacrificed the baby to the continuity gods in hopes of erasing the clone saga from the minds of everyone
"…the idea of opening the next Spidey movie that in media res doesn't quite gibe for me." Okay, first it's "in medias res," secondly, it's either in medias res or it isn't. You're a smart guy, and you write for a living. There's no excuse for this kind of crap.
God, I hope Spiderman 4 will be as awesome as Spidey 3!! Go Raimi GO!!
It's going to be like the Fly but with Spiderman. Count me in. Fuck yeah.
Recast Maguire and Dunst. Great. We got a Spider-Man who doesn't want to work out for the role, and a leading lady who's not really pretty. Ok, this worked for the first film (when both actors were trying their hardest) but not anymore.
Sounds like a Mary Jane baby flashback to me, dealing with ehr "turbulent" childhood. let's not jump to conclusions until we hear there will be a fair amount of on-set time for said red-headed baby.
Wasn't Doc Connors' kid a redhead?
If they are making back to back films, as some people think, then it is a possibility. It could be set up in the first film and carried over into the second.
Maybe it'll just be a part of Mystereo's mind games!
Red haired? Ugh.
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