NEW SPIDEY ANIMATED COMING TO KIDS’ WB! ON THE CW in '08

[MattBrady]

by Steve Fritz

Another Marvel hero is returning to the animated frontier. The Kids WB announced it has struck a deal with producer Culver Entertainment to bring everyone’s favorite webslinger back to Saturday mornings.

The series is tentatively titled The Amazing Spider-Man. Greg Weisman (Gargoyles, The Batman) is supervising producer, Victor Cook (Hellboy: Blood and Iron, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command) is producer/supervising director.

“The addition of Spider-Man bolsters a lineup that has proved to be the Saturday morning destination for kids seeking action and adventure in the most amped-up ways,” Betsy McGowen, Kids WB SVP and General Manager said. “We’re ecstatic to welcome Spider-Man to our popular cavalcade of super heroes.”

"Spider-Man is such an important brand for Sony Pictures and we're thrilled to keep the momentum going by taking it back to television with an animated series on Kids’ WB!," Zack Van Amburg, Sony Picture Television Co-President added. "It's also an excellent way to launch Culver Entertainment, our newest television company."

The new animated series picks up the original web-slinger’s mythology at the beginning of his hero’s journey…as a not-so-typical 16-year-old entering his junior year of high school. Having spent the summer engaging common criminals with his new-found powers, Peter Parker must conceal his secret identity while engaging a new level of terror – the multi-leveled pressures of teenage life at home and school while combating bigger, badder super-villains in the real world.

“Our goal is to reinterpret these great characters and concepts for our millennium,” Weisman said. “We’ll have plenty of resonant material for the Spider-Man fan, while engaging the Spider-Man novice with the same thrills we experienced when we were first exposed to the character. Our stories will appeal on multiple levels with plenty of eye-candy, action, humor and colorful characters for the youngest demographic balanced with extensive character development for ‘tweens, teens and adults.”

No announcement has been made regarding voice cast or what type of animation will be employed. Expect more on this story as it breaks.

[BlueThunderArmy]

Very cool. And the people behind it have some nice credits to their names, as well.

[Scott King]

I was a big fan of the 90's "Spider-Man The Animated Series" but really didn't like the version of Spidey that ran on MTV after the first film came out. Hopefully THIS one will be good.

[clobber_time]

Great News! Marvel might finally get a decent aminated series.

The recent TV stuff has been dreadful

[The 'Nam]

Originally Posted by Scott King

I was a big fan of the 90's "Spider-Man The Animated Series" but really didn't like the version of Spidey that ran on MTV after the first film came out. Hopefully THIS one will be good.

Yeah, same here. Haven't enjoyed it since I grew up with it. They need to put the 90's stuff on DVD.

[Ye Olde Iowa]

This could be really awesome. The Kids WB! is an interesting home for this, especially since they are also showing Legion of Superheroes and The Batman (and, if the rumors of a spin-off Justice League show are correct, with some Leaguers showing up at the end of this season of the Batman, it will probably show that too). Regardless, this show has some heavy-hitters backing it, so I'm optimistic.

[Ye Olde Iowa]

Originally Posted by clobber_time

Great News! Marvel might finally get a decent aminated series.

The recent TV stuff has been dreadful

I think the new Fantastic Four cartoon could have been good if it was given more of a chance and a better timeslot. I wasn't a fan of the art style, but the stories were great.

Let's just hope this can live up to the long list of well-done Marvel cartoons, like the old school Fantastic Four, the 90s X-Men and Spider-Man, and X-Men Evolution.

[Lex]

Greg Weisman? That's all I needed to hear to check this out.

[mattguthrie]

okay, spiderman is a good start but we need to get a new x-men series soon...

and that FF seires was terrible...i hate that japanimation stuff where everybody's heads are triangles...i hope they go with a more traditional american cartoon look.

it sounds like they are going to be doing this in the tradition of ultimate spiderman...

[Kolimar]

WOO-HOO!!!

Finally!!

[durham4556]

a marvel comic hero on a Warner owned channel, that confirms it, hell has frozen over.. we better listen to al gore and start sending our kids into space, for the end is near

this is really weird marvel has always had better realtions with fox and cbs than time warner, kinda weird hearing about this.. almost unbelieveable

[Ace]

i hope that Weisman's presence means that this is going to be a little more serial in nature, with one ep leading into the next and subplots.

[IceGambit]

Sigh, so it's going to be Peter Parker goes to high school. I can't stand shows about children.

[Kolimar]

The Complete List of Marvel Comics TV Series

[pop monkey]

Originally Posted by mattguthrie

and that FF seires was terrible...i hate that japanimation stuff where everybody's heads are triangles...i hope they go with a more traditional american cartoon look.

I'll second the disdain for the recent FF series. I watched the first half of the first episode and was done. I wasn't happy with the MTV Spider-Man series, either. Did that last a whole season, or was it cancelled early. I never watched it past the first two episodes, and don't remember hearing anything else about it -- it sort of just faded away.



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[pop monkey]

Originally Posted by mattguthrie

and that FF seires was terrible...i hate that japanimation stuff where everybody's heads are triangles...i hope they go with a more traditional american cartoon look.

I'll second the disdain for the recent FF series. I watched the first half of the first episode and was done. I wasn't happy with the MTV Spider-Man series, either. Did that last a whole season, or was it cancelled early. I never watched it past the first two episodes, and don't remember hearing anything else about it -- it sort of just faded away.



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[sfritz]

Originally Posted by durham4556

a marvel comic hero on a Warner owned channel, that confirms it, hell has frozen over.. we better listen to al gore and start sending our kids into space, for the end is near

this is really weird marvel has always had better realtions with fox and cbs than time warner, kinda weird hearing about this.. almost unbelieveable

X-Men Evolution was on Kids WB. If I remember Weisman worked on that, too...-s

[Ace]

Writing on FF was fine, even if I didn't like the art much. I want to see the unaired eps.

[Beheader]

Originally Posted by IceGambit

Sigh, so it's going to be Peter Parker goes to high school. I can't stand shows about children.

He's going to be 16, so it's not going to be like some annoying 10 year old running around.

I actually prefer teenage Spidey. I think they age him too fast in both cartoons and movies before.

[michaelman9]

great news! I hope they do it with an actual all ages approach (JLU style) instead of a kiddy version.

[Don Mega]

Finally! The best superhero there is will be back on the small screen.

Hopefully in a decent way this time.

[macwagen]

awesome news! i'm glad to see it go back to the beginning, too. I'm hoping it'll be more like Ultimate Spidy. Just please please please don't do the trendy-to-look-manga b*lls**t.

Wasn't there something about a straight-to-dvd animated Spider-Man that was supposed to come out soon? I swear I remember reading that they were planning to release it close to the movie.

[JRCarter]

They need to get Jeff Mastuda on board for this:

http://www.jeffmatsuda.com/animation/spidey01.html

[Jed Saxon]

Originally Posted by Lex

Greg Weisman? That's all I needed to hear to check this out.

Same here. "Gargoyles" was the best American toon series until the new TMNT came around.

No we also need Frank Paur.

[Scorned1]

Amazing Spider-Man? why not called it "Ultimate Spider-Man" because the concept is very close to it. I hope we don't get teenage version of each of the people/villians in the series.