On fan concerns over the exit of Sam Raimi and the Spider-Man reboot:

Some worry that the shift to younger fans “is going to turn Spider-Man into Twilight,” says Rob Worley, editor of Mania.com. “Nobody wants to see Taylor Lautner as the next Spider-Man.”

On the possibility of David Fincher stepping up to direct:

“He’s a guy fans are wondering, ‘What if,’ ” Worley says.

On Marvel’s rise to power as a Hollywood player:

“I never envisioned Marvel becoming the entertainment powerhouse it has become in the last four or five years,” said Rob Worley, who created Comics2Film, a clearinghouse of articles and information, in 1997.

“Back then, comic-book movies were such a ghetto topic,” he said. “There weren’t many movies, and most were terrible.”

Worley said the release of Blade in 1998 and X-Men in 2000 helped turn people’s heads (other films from the late ’90s — Batman and Robin, Steel, Spawn — failed to varying degrees). The enormous success of 2002′s Spider-Man — the sixth-highest-grossing film in history — made superheroes as hip as they’ve ever been.