Thoughts on the BBC Spider-Man Radio Play?

[Ubauba01]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LYM5KLeR...ZGlvIHBsYXk%3D

It is mostly an adaptation of Spider-Man's first comic run.

- A lot of the characters have deep accents, presumably to better hide the voice actors's actual, British accents?

- There are some differences from the original run. Mostly in that Spider-Man's origin is a bit different, and Doctor Doom's first meeting with Spider-Man is changed, mainly in that this version of the Doctor Doom story also features Namor and FF (in the original, FF only appeared in a flashback).

- Featured villains are Doc Ock, Green Goblin, Sandman and Doctor Doom.

[Ubauba01]

Doctor Doom and Green Goblin were pretty goofy. I liked Thing's portrayal quite a bit though.

They adapted some of the FF stories into this play.

In the end, it says the series is "to be continued", but I don't believe there had been a continuation made.

This series is designated as Earth-96115.

[exile001]

I'll check it out.

They did Batman Knightfall (Quest & End) that was cool, and a Doomsday one that wasn't as good.

[lalalei2001]

I didn't know it existed before! How cool!

[Ubauba01]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=n62AJQG1aZs
There is also a theme song to it, but it's pretty bad if you ask me.

[lalalei2001]

Brian May of Queen did the music, apparently.

[NC_Yankee]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LYM5KLeR...ZGlvIHBsYXk%3D

It is mostly an adaptation of Spider-Man's first comic run.

- A lot of the characters have deep accents, presumably to better hide the voice actors's actual, British accents?

- There are some differences from the original run. Mostly in that Spider-Man's origin is a bit different, and Doctor Doom's first meeting with Spider-Man is changed, mainly in that this version of the Doctor Doom story also features Namor and FF (in the original, FF only appeared in a flashback).

- Featured villains are Doc Ock, Green Goblin, Sandman and Doctor Doom.

British actors excel at multiple vocal accents ( Ronald Colman might be the best ever, Tom
Hardy one of the best today)). One of the best is Mark Rylance. He did a film called The Outfit. One of the best and most original gangster films I ever saw.

[Digifiend]

Of course, two of the three modern Spider-Man actors are British. Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland. So is Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch). If Brits doing fake American accents is good enough for the movies, it certainly isn't a problem on a radio play.

I see this was on BBC Radio 1... that's unusual, it's usually a music station, it's Radio 4 that usually has the audio dramas (some Doctor Who ones have aired there and they have a soap called The Archers).

[SplinteringHeart]

Oh, I never knew this existed, and yes unusual being on Radio 1! I'll give it a listen...

I'm quite into audio plays...I'm curious to hear a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer one I keep seeing adverts for...it's on Audible which I'm not signed up to though..think it's subscription based...

[Ubauba01]

Oh, I never knew this existed, and yes unusual being on Radio 1! I'll give it a listen...

I'm quite into audio plays...I'm curious to hear a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer one I keep seeing adverts for...it's on Audible which I'm not signed up to though..think it's subscription based...

Here's another one I found if you are interested:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BobuRQJhxvs

Starring Fantastic Four.

[SplinteringHeart]

Here's another one I found if you are interested:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BobuRQJhxvs

Starring Fantastic Four.

Ha ha, thanks Ubauaba, just played a bit...from 1975, and with a Stan Lee voice over!

[Digifiend]

Here's another one I found if you are interested:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BobuRQJhxvs

Starring Fantastic Four.

Odd, tried to embed it but it showed up as a link. The Video tag is broken. I'll have to report that bug.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BobuRQJhxvs