July 30, 2002

1:19 PM

The Vancouver Company that created ReBoot will be making a CGI Spider-Man cartoon for MTV. Neil Patrick Harris as Spidey, Lisa Loeb as Mary Jane and Ian Ziering as Harry Osborn will inhabit a "seemingly realistic neon lit city of the immediate future". Will this show set a new standard of production for cartoons based on comics? Will MJ wear glasses?
posted by will (23 comments total)

Brief sample clip.

(QuickTime required)
posted by ice_cream_motor at 1:22 PM on July 30, 2002

Will those hilarious effeminate-Spiderman-dancing animated GIFs come into the picture at any point?
posted by brownpau at 1:33 PM on July 30, 2002

I thought Ian Ziering's future held a Hair Club For Men spokesmanship and little else.
posted by donkeyschlong at 1:36 PM on July 30, 2002

Doogie Howser, Superhero?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 1:37 PM on July 30, 2002

He's played serious roles crash! Give the poor man a break, I know I can't.

The sample clip looks pretty cool, like a combination of 3D and cellshading.
posted by insomnyuk at 1:40 PM on July 30, 2002

That sample clip looks promising - I like the leaner, more wiry look that they've gone for. Particularly in contrast to the bulkier Spidey that appeared in the more recent cartoons. Provided they don't keep trying to mash some over-extended comicbook story-arc into a 20 minute episode they should do okay.
posted by MUD at 1:41 PM on July 30, 2002

So will there be a computer diary entry at the end of each episode?

Today I learned that being a superhero is more than jus_

posted by madprops at 1:42 PM on July 30, 2002 [1 favorite]

The cellshade rendering does look cool.
posted by donkeyschlong at 1:44 PM on July 30, 2002

madprops: what an excellent first post to MetaFilter. Welcome. Oh, and uh...mad props.
posted by ColdChef at 1:55 PM on July 30, 2002

Where did those animated GIF's come from? They're truly scary.
posted by Darke at 1:56 PM on July 30, 2002

I thought the animated GIFs were half effeminate, and all raver. As for the movie, did we crash it?
posted by arielmeadow at 3:50 PM on July 30, 2002

Mmm, open directories...
posted by piskycritter at 4:00 PM on July 30, 2002

(Effeminate) Spider-Man will make you gay.
posted by jimmy at 4:09 PM on July 30, 2002

So, smooth, graceful dancing is now effeminate and gay? Guess I really should have listened to the bigger kids at school.

jimmy, is your middle name "Jonah" by any chance? I always wondered what that first "J" stood for.
posted by MUD at 5:02 PM on July 30, 2002

Ian Ziering? OMG!
posted by holloway at 5:44 PM on July 30, 2002

Reboot rocked hard.

(oh, and the movie link isn't working for me...)
posted by rushmc at 7:16 PM on July 30, 2002

Isn't working for me either.

Reboot was my favorite cartoon as a pre-teen! I miss it so much...
posted by premiumpolar at 8:23 PM on July 30, 2002

if the link isn't working for you try getting to it through piskycritter's directory link. and if that doesn't work copying and pasting the url into a new browser
(right (option?) click->open in new window won't work)
as far as i can tell it's just blocking non-local referrers.
posted by juv3nal at 12:25 AM on July 31, 2002

...AND:
the cell shading is cool
all i can say is some channel other than mtv better carry it here in vancouver, because i don't get mtv as part of basic cable *grumble*
posted by juv3nal at 12:28 AM on July 31, 2002

So, smooth, graceful dancing is now effeminate and gay? Guess I really should have listened to the bigger kids at school.

I've gotta say, I've got a pretty lame sense of humor, but that link made me laugh for about half an hour.

Also, I don't think that it was jimmy's intent to say that 'smooth, graceful dancing (heh)' is gay... Even though it is.
posted by esch at 1:13 AM on July 31, 2002

Reboot did indeed rule. What happened in the end? I just remember some weird second series where Bob went missing...
posted by Lame_Dave at 6:14 AM on July 31, 2002

The grown up Enzo and Andraia found him, and he merged with Glitch. They returned to Mainframe, Enzo defeated Megabyte, and then they had to reboot the whole thing. Series ended with little Enzo slammin' into big Enzo.

That last season was brilliant. Released from the ABC (Disney) shackles, Reboot became absolutely first-rate... and there was a Prisoner spoof, too!
posted by Marquis at 9:36 AM on July 31, 2002

(Effeminate) Spider-Man will make you gay.

Well, I know Toby Maguire made me happy to be gay.
posted by benjh at 10:10 AM on July 31, 2002