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They’re reaching seriously deep into Spider-Man’s continuity for the new movie, down into some of the least-explored corners of the webslinger’s mythos. Heat Vision’s got a big casting update that covers two couples in the new movie--the first being Peter Parker’s dead parents and the second consisting of an obscure villain and his wife.

So Campbell Scott’s officially on to play Spidey’s dad, Richard Parker, while Julianne Nicholson’s in talks to play his mom, Mary. Since they both died long before the whole origin story with the radioactive spider they, understandably, haven’t really shown up that often in the comics. As intricate & complex as these fictional histories tend to get, of course, the couple also happened to be spies who did some missions with Wolverine back in the day (if you have 50 years of issues, every conceivable story comes up.)

Probably their biggest appearance was in a #-1 issue of one Spidey title. That happened during Marvel's Flashback month and another Spidey title's #-1 issue featured a dude named Nels Van Adder - - the Proto-Goblin. As you can guess, he was the mis-fortunate guinea pig of the Green Goblin's crazy formula.  

Irrfan Khan is in talks to play a “Van Atter," an unspecified villain whose name is only a couple letters off and could, thus. likely be a re-tooled Proto-Goblin. Annie Parisse would be his wife--a character who, if she was actually in the comics, probably wouldn't even warrant an entry in the Official Marvel Handbook. 

Man, I know too much about this stuff...  

Somehow Im tired of Spidey ... then again I was like the only one who didnt digged the recents Spidey flicks , also I was hopping for Carnage :(

Peter's parents were spies working with Wolverine? Please tell me that won't be in the movie. Despite it's silly premise, at least the previous movies tried hard to make the characters as plausible as possible.  
 
Also, am I alone in hating the fact that Marvel and DC has made all their comics into their own single universe? Spider-Man with the X-Men. Batman with Superman. I hate that. I wish all comic heroes had their own separate universe away from everyone else.  
 
Finally, yeah, I want Spider-Man to take an extended break. Come back in another decade or two. Who the hell made this contract that all licenses have to have 5 year cycles? That's crap. 

This seems like they're trying to do something like Harry Potter's parents with the Parkers.

i dont know why im not feeling this spidey reboot 

Two actors from Law and Order?  Are they filming in New York?

@Bones8677 said:

" Peter's parents were spies working with Wolverine? Please tell me that won't be in the movie. Despite it's silly premise, at least the previous movies tried hard to make the characters as plausible as possible.   Also, am I alone in hating the fact that Marvel and DC has made all their comics into their own single universe? Spider-Man with the X-Men. Batman with Superman. I hate that. I wish all comic heroes had their own separate universe away from everyone else.   Finally, yeah, I want Spider-Man to take an extended break. Come back in another decade or two. Who the hell made this contract that all licenses have to have 5 year cycles? That's crap.  "

FYI, DC has not put any of their movies into a shared universe yet, and Marvel is only doing that with the properties made by Marvel Studios themselves (meaning Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc, are all separate and made by various other studios). The only Marvel movies in the same shared universe are Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, and the up-coming Thor and Captain America. And that's because these last few movies are all leading to the Avengers film which has each of these of characters in it (as based on the Avengers comics obv). 

@Icon: I meant in the comics. Not the movies.

@Bones8677: As a comic book fan, that's what makes the comics interesting... I wouldn't want to read stories about just Superman, or just X-Men... that'd be really freaking boring.  I agree that not all comics should feature all heroes or even any others (as in, I'm reading a Punisher comic, I don't need to see Captain Marvel), but I sincerely think that part of the success of both DC and Marvel is the fact that all super heroes share the same universe (though there's tons of universes... I'm referring to the main ones with main continuity.)  All that said, if you don't like shared universes, yet you like comics, go read independent comics... they hardly ever share the same stuff...