“Spider-Man: No Way Home” comes out Wednesday in theaters, umpteenth adventure of theSpider Man. By increasing the number of adaptations, doesn’t Hollywood risk devaluing the character and the myth?
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“With great power comes great responsibility.” This famous phrase is part of the Spider-Man legend. But when it’s said too often, doesn’t it lose some of its magic? Spider-Man: No way Home, directed by Jon Watts, is out Wednesday, December 15. A new take on the adventures of the famous Spider-Man created by Marvel in the early 1960s.
Nine films with the superhero have been released since 2002 and the first one directed by Sam Raimi. Not even counting choral films like Avengers or episodes apart like Venom. This is a lot, and even too much in the eyes of Stéphane Moïssakis, editor-in-chief of the Capture Mag sites and podcasts: “It wouldn’t be too much if the idea were to have a new approach. We don’t have the impression that we are being told the same story over and over again, if we let the authors express themselves on the subject. The specialist journalist emphasizes that in this new opus, “doesn’t even question whether he’s been bitten by a spider. In any case, it is never shown to viewers. It could be a way to put it differently, but here we are totally losing the mythology of the character. “
Terrific cash machines, like other Marvel products, so Spider-Man’s adaptations shouldn’t stop. Especially since even a relative box office failure like Amazing Spiderman: A Hero’s Fate in 2014 does not question this frenzy. Not to mention that the rights of the Spider-Man still belong to Sony, but that it is “on loan” to Disney, owner of Marvel, for certain productions. With such a large toy box, why go without, says Frédéric Sigrist, geek humorist and presenter of “Blockbusters” on France Inter: “What we criticize today these studios lacking in imagination is something that exists deep in the original media, it is something that is intrinsic to superhero comics.”
Disney thought, ” They are geniuses, they make a lot of money with little variation. Why don’t we adapt it? ‘ It’s quite fascinating to see them do that on the big screen. “
Frédéric Sigristto franceinfo
In all these adaptations there is at least one recent one which elicits almost unanimous critical and public support: the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse of 2018, the sequel to arrive in 2022.