User blog:Dava4444/A Netflix Scarlet Spider.. or a Study in Red and Blue

Hi guys

Pretty new to blogging on here but.. I blog a few places, do it for fun, hope you enjoy my articles.

Long ago in the mist of time, Sony bought out pretty much all of Marvel's Spider-Man roster, with one major exception, the character I consider the best Spider-Man except Peter Parker himself, Ben Reilly.

When I found out a couple of months ago, I just laughed out loud, thinking how great it'd be for Topher Grace to be our Netflix Scarlet-Spider, he was perfect for the role, and his stint as Venom/Eddie Brock should only serve to encourage us, as we seen how the casting director got it so wrong and so right at the same time. It must have been a subconscious thought 'hey he would fit in here great!' but not as Eddie Brock, whose character is 6 foot + and built like a 'quarterback'. No..Topher was perfect for a main cast Spider-Man.. he had the look in spades, as Ben Reilly, Topher could take all the pain of having hollywood reject his big screen super-debut and all humor he naturally has.. and pour that into the Scarlet-Spider and make Ben something ..special.

For those new to the Scarlet-Spider, his history is, Doc Connors in an attempt to cure Peter of the Spider bite, as the radiation was killing him, took some blood samples from Peter, these blood samples ended up being used to make around 40 to 50 clones of Peter Parker/Spider-Man .. many many of them were evil, with the exception of only 5 who were good like Peter. The one most like Peter was.. Ben.

Ben still has a sense of humor, like Peter whereas the other clones do not, Ben's humor is a little darker but still only Spider-Man dark, Ben can't shoot webbing out of his wrists but instead uses cartridges he would refill with a webbing fluid that would expand on impact*. Stingers which would paralyze targets, and all the other abilities Peter has. He wears a blue Spider hoodie over his totally red Spider costume.

See the reason Sony didn't pick up the option in my humble opinion is.. Scarlet Spider is much later in Peter's storyline, so figuring they would never need this as most movies are a trilogy, they passed on the option. BUT, it's an MCU.. so if Netflix says something happened, it happened, and Sony have to incorporate* that into their movie. Marvel should just employ a continuity director to relay the relevant information and keep everyone on the same page, if they don't already, to keep all customers happy.

Instead of having The Jackal (optioned by Sony) clone Peter Parker, we could have Morbius the Vampire from the Blade films (New Line Cinema/Warner Bros) WB who are probably looking to dump much of their Marvel options due to being to very tight and BFF with DC for nearly 30 years, yeah, I could see how that story would work:

Some vamps unwittingly steal some blood from a unnamed* lab, the blood has strange effects on them and they get sick, Morbius finds out about this and uses his resources to clone a batch of humans from the remaining strange blood, some of the clones escape.. and one is.. Ben Reilly.

We first meet Ben much later after these events as he 'bumps' into The Defenders, and they are told back to us in flashes, as his memory is much jumbled.

One flash is when Ben first meets Luke Cage, Luke says 'Hey I used to own a hoodie like that.' : Hit by a bulldozer while escaping we see from his foggy eyes looking up from the ground Claire Temple asking.. 'are you okay??.. tell me what's your name?' answering 'I think, I think .. it's Ben' she helps him home, her home, as he doesn't know where he lives and cares for him. A week goes by and he starts to feel stronger, she gives him one of Luke Cages old hoodies, it's a blue one with a Spider on the chest, one of the sleeves is missing so Ben removes the other sleeve.

I may not win any prizes for originality, but a well told story is just as compelling as an original one.

Well I hope you enjoyed my thoughts and ideas on a Netflix Scarlet-Spider, since Sony seem to be making the Iron-Spider storyline, would be nice to have a more traditional Spider too.

peace

Dava


 * Now the MCU Spider-Man has cartridges also. Unlike Modern-age Spider-Man with Bio-webbing which I prefer as it   fits with the character.


 * Sony have to suck it up and put it in their movie. hard cheese style. much hard cheese.


 * Doc Conner's couldn't be used as he is optioned by Sony.


 * I like the idea of the Iron-Spider story for the movies, but I also like the idea of a traditional Spider-Man. I like both. .. and we could have both.

Thanks to Carl Lee over at Screen Rant for the following table.

http://screenrant.com/marvel-comics-movies-characters/

Sony Pictures

Spider-Man: Spider-Man/Peter Parker, Doctor Octopus/Otto Octavius, Green Goblin/Norman Osborn, (New) Green Goblin/Harry Osborn, [The Lizard]/Dr. Curt Connors, Sandman/Flint Marko, Venom/Eddie Brock Jr., Vulture, Mysterio, Kraven the Hunter, Black Cat/Felicia Hardy, Silver Sable, Electro/Max Dillon, Rhino, Carnage/Cletus Kasady, Sinister Six, Shocker, Chameleon, The Gentleman, Dr. Ashley Kafka, Beetle, Betty Brant, Dennis Carradine (Buglar), J. Jonah Jameson, Ben Parker, May Parker, John Jameson, Joseph “Robbie” Robertson, Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson, Mendel Stromm, Flash Thompson, Allistair Smythe, Spider-Slayers, Miles Warren/Jackal,

