Oh God please don't make it an origin story. Why can't we just have a superhero film where the origin is summed up during the opening credits like a Star Wars scroll? I wish the original Spider-Man had this statement as the opening (I did not write this by the way):"Bitten by a radioactive spider, ordinary teenager, Peter Parker, was given unspeakable powers. At first, Peter used his new found powers to earn some quick money as a wrestler. One night while at the arena, a burglar ran past Peter. The security guard yelled at Peter to stop him, but Peter did not. This one act changed Peter's life forever. Peter came home that night to find that his Uncle Ben was killed by a burgler. Peter donned his spider costume one more time to find his Uncle's killer. He overheard from a police officer that he was hold up in a warehouse. When Peter confronted his Uncle's killer, Peter realized that the killer was the burglar from the wrestling arena. To honor his Uncle's memory, Peter Parker became "The Amazing Spider-Man". Peter learned that with great power comes great responsibility."
After that we could've had 2 hours of Spider-Man in costume fighting bad guys rather than watching the above statement unfold. We all already know the freakin' origin people!
'Source: Entertainment Weekly
March 18, 2006
"Entertainment Weekly chatted with Hugh Jackman at ShoWest and he talked more about his Wolverine spinoff film:
Fresh from the set of The Prestige, the magician movie he's making with Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan, Hugh Jackman popped by to accept the Male Star of the Year award — and to answer a few prying questions from EW about his spin-off movie, whose second screenplay draft, by David Benioff (Troy), is due momentarily. ''Wolverine substantiates a feature film,'' Jackman said. ''I mean, he's a really intriguing, mysterious, enigmatic character, à la Mad Max, Dirty Harry, Han Solo — he's that kind of screen antihero.'' So what's the movie about? ''I'd love to get into the origins of that character and find out what he's really made of. So that was always my idea.... Benioff came in with a pitch that was so brilliant, I was so excited, I actually tried to get Fox to make it [before X-Men 3]. But they said, 'No, no, no, we have a trilogy, let's finish that.''' Ah, so that means that Wolverine will survive X-Men 3 this summer, right? ''Well, you never know. Wolverine might be a prequel. Wolverine might be a prequel.'' Yeah, we heard him — nudge nudge — the first time.'
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I'm with you, JPX. Even in comics, seeing "the origin of Iron Jaw" or whoever always made my heart sink. Origin stories are so rarely any good.
Spider-man's has always bugged me, with that specific coincidence of the mugger he ignores killing his uncle. It's like Batman's origin for slow readers. I've always held it as one of those things that makes Marvel look like a knockoff of DC.
Alan Moore has penned some tasty origin stories, though. Like the retcon of Swamp Thing and Dr. Manhattan.
Yeah, you can't really fault Swamp Thing, Dr. Manhattan, or Doom Patrol for that matter. I don't know if Swamp Thing or Doom Patrol count though because in those instances someone said, "I bet I can do a better origin" and reivented an already established origin. I don't want to see Wolverine wandering around in the tundra wondering how he got there. We got enough of his origin in X-Men 2 didn't we?
More than that, I don't need to see him on a slab in a bunker, or in a tank in a bunker, with syringes and doctors, and...(yawn)...oh, excuse me.
I'm just not interested in any origin that involves a secret government project or a bioengineering screw-up or an encounter with something radioactive. Move it along.
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