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Hollywood's always loved remakes, but now it's all about reboots (or, less crassly, "re-imaginings"). But what defines a movie reboot can get more convoluted and confusing than Captain Kirk's rules for fizbin. For example, 2009's Friday the 13th was a reboot, but 2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street and Rob Zombie's Halloween were remakes since they essentially retold the same story as their respective original films. Reboots can be tonally different than their predecessors, recast almost all of the key roles (Casino Royale held onto Judi Dench's M, but put her character into an entirely new continuity), and yet still perhaps have a few ties or direct nods to their predecessors.
In 2005, Warner Bros. and director Christopher Nolan rebooted the Batman franchise with Batman Begins, taking the character back to his dark and gritty roots. Central to this new grounded take was Batman Begins‘ stellar cast.
Actor Cillian Murphy and director Christopher Nolan's working relationship spans across nearly two decades, as they first combined their powers in 2005's Batman Begins. Interestingly, Murphy was eyed to be Batman at first.
All of us took notice of a missing character that is important to the Spider-Man mythos. Parker’s red-headed girlfriend Mary Jane Watson. However, Garfield actually didn’t seem too bothered with it and suggested that breaking away from that cliché expectation for Spider-Man’s story is important.
