Tron fic: Moving Day (1/2)

Title: Moving Day
Fandom: Tron
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,564
Characters/Pairings: Sam/Quorra
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Summary: Sam knows every couple has to fight about something. This just wasn't what he had in mind.

( He loved Star Wars since he was a kid; dreamed of traveling to alien worlds, fighting with glow-y weapons, learning from wise old masters, rescuing beautiful princesses, ducking into strange little cantinas filled with weird creatures; not to mention fighting faceless, black-suited menaces and manning the gun-port of a spaceship to defend it from enemy fliers. )

Spider-wait for it-Man

So I was playing a Spider-Man videogame recently, and I noticed Neil Patrich Harris was voicing Spidey. And obviously he does a great job with it, so I got to thinking... why couldn't he play Spider-Man? You know, in a movie?

He's got the acting chops. He's a funny enough guy to make just about any quip work. He's good-looking, but in a "nerd-handsome" sort of way. He even has the Spidey body type. If there's another musical number, he can even sing and dance!

And not only does fandom, both the male and female sides, love him, but he has mainstream appeal. He stars in a huge sitcom, so the general public wouldn't be going "who's Nathan Fillion?" (Although, obviously if they're casting Andrew Garfield, name recognition isn't that big a factor.) Yet, he's also not such an A-lister that it would take the GDP of a small country to hire him. The only real fall-out you'd have would be from people going "Spider-Man, played by a gay man? Oh, my monocle!" and we'd have fun mocking their internet rants.

Picture this: Spider-Man 4 falls apart and Sam Raimi is let go. But instead of retelling the origin story, Sony does a soft reboot and skips ahead some number of years. Keep Rosemary Harris, J.K. Simmons, and everyone else, but recast Peter and MJ (since the actors are both expensive and getting a tad bored of it). Now NPHeter is happily married and you can do stories like Peter becoming a substitute teacher, or ones that focus on a long-standing rivalry with a villain, like Electro's Light The Night story arc, or Kraven's Last Hunt.

I'm cautiously optimistic about the reboot's chances (although Gwen in multiple movies sounds threatening. Guys, I'm not paying nine bucks to not see Gwen Stacy die), but damn, this would've been nice.

Tl;dr - Forget Donald Glover as Spider-Man, we needed to go older and whiter, like history class.

ETA: Christina Hendricks as Mary-Jane. Yes.

ETA2: Amy Adams would also be great. Who wouldn't want to see Princess Giselle and Barney trade domestic bliss banter?

Tron

Has anyone really thought about the backstory on Tron: Legacy?

CLU: And now, Flynn, I will rule the world you created with an iron fist, preventing you from ever seeing your loved ones again! What are you gonna do about it?

Kevin Flynn: I'm going to spend hundreds of years alone with Olivia Wilde.

CLU: ...

ETA: ( Spoilers. )