Veteran voice actor Josh Keaton is providing the voices of Peter Parker and Spider-Man for The Spectacular Spider-Man, the new animated series.
Keaton, 28, is familiar with the Spider-Man universe, having provided the voice of Harry Osborn for two video games. Keaton also did the voice of Cyclops in an X-Men game.
Keaton's television credits include Ben 10, Will & Grace and Boy Meets World.
Voice recording for the series has begun.
The Spectacular Spider-Man is being produced by Culver Entertainment. Greg Weisman is supervising producer, and Victor Cook is producer/supervising director.
The show is targeted to debut on Kids' WB! early next year.
I posted about this before. Weisman was the creator of what is in my opinion, the single best action adventure cartoon ever to come out of an American studio, Gargoyles. I have very high hopes for this series.
I dunno - the art style isn't my thing, but Weisman did work on Gargoyles, which is one of my favorite animated shows... I'll look at it and hope its as quality as Gargoyles and less The Batman...
I was never a big "Gargoyles" fan, but I thought the series was well-designed. This, unfortunately, looks less like his Gargoyles work and more like his recent "Batman" work.
But in the movies it took away the intelligent science student part of Parker's character. The mechanical web shooters work in cartoons because there's more time to develop that aspect of Peter Parker.
The mechanical web shooters were always stupid because how could Peter Parker come up with a brand new polymer all by himself for his crime fighting and not be able to come up with anything else to make money to help out his poor old aunt who's fucking raised him his whole life? Is he just a selfish douche?
Hundreds of fans, with their kids in tow, attended the premiere of the new animated series “The Spectacular Spider-Man” at WonderCon in San Francisco on Saturday, a full two weeks before it's set to air on Kids' WB! on The CW network. Following the screening, Sony Pictures Television’s Michael Vogel moderated a discussion that included supervising producer Greg Wiseman, supervising director Victor Cook, character designer Sean “Cheeks” Galloway, voice actors Josh Keaton (Spider-man/Peter Parker) and Ben Diskin (Eddie Brock). The panelists discussed the pleasures of bringing the Spider-Man characters back to television and their hopes for the series.
Set sometime after the spider bite that gave Peter Parker his powers and the death of his uncle -- which gave him his purpose-- the TV series places Spider-Man at the start of his junior year in high school. There he is pushed around by jocks, but has friends in the form of Harry Osborne and Gwen Stacy. While Harry is played in a fashion similar to his feature film counterpart, Stacy is conceived as Peter’s intellectual equal. In fact, both receive an internship at the local university, working for Professor Connors. There they find Eddie Brock, a friend who graduated from their high school the previous year. Peter hopes the internship will help him make some money to help out Aunt May -- until Eddie tells him the job pays nothing.
Ed Asner is the voice of Uncle Ben...awesome. The show has grown on me a bit more. It's a mix of stories from Ultimate Spider-Man, the movies, the 90's toon, and the main Spider-Man comics (of course). The episodes seem to rush into bringing in more villains. It's still fun to watch though. The recent episode I watched broke the Pete/symbiote bond. Venom is in the next one.
