There’s no denying how much we in the movie-verse despise remakes. Is there really nothing original left in Hollywood anymore? Apparently not. Last week when it was announced that Sony had cancelled production on Spider-Man 4, director Sam Raimi walking out with star Tobey Maguire joining him, fanboys took to the web to vent their concern. What the hell happened? Raimi has had a difficult time trying to find people to write the sequel, and Sony hasn’t exactly provided the best support (and by that I mean they fought him over every little detail). In the recall of the Spider-Man franchise, the studio also proclaimed that they would cast a new director and a new Peter Parker for a 2012 series reboot.

“Peter Parker is going back to high school when the next Spider-Man hits theaters in the summer of 2012,” Sony said in a press release. “(The film will focus on) a teenager grappling with both contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises.”

After a week of speculation as to who the new director would be, the information is finally here: that (500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb was to direct three Spidey reboots. Of course, nobody was happy with this. Even I think it’s a dumb move, and that Sony is only looking for someone to push around and act as their littler puppet while they make bank. But could Marc Webb actually bring life back to the series after the dreadful Spider-Man 3?

We saw it happen with Raimi; a kid with wide eyes and multiple cheesy horror flicks under his belt, who soon ballooned into helmer of a $2 billion franchise. As we know, Webb was filmmaker for some of bands “3 Doors Down”, “Green Day” and pop singer Jesse McCartney’s music videos. That’s what made (500) Days so memorable and unique. When you first thought of a comic book adaptation as big as Spider-Man, did you immediately think that Sam Rami could handle it, either?

Sony stopping the project was a good idea. Constantly reading the headlines saying how annoyed Raimi was with the studio’s nit-picking on the franchise that he made a phenomenon, Spider-Man 4 looked to be just more of the last sequel. We don’t know Webb’s thinking when signing onto three remakes only five years after the last movie was released. Maybe he could indeed make our dreams come true when it comes to our beloved Spider-Man. As for now, it’s all up in the air. This relaunching could be the best move Sony has ever made. Then again, it probably isn’t.