Marc Webb’s pretty decent reboot-make-imagining of your great-grandpa’s Spider-Man (2002) will be the first part of a trilogy, revealed Columbia Pictures on the film’s Facebook page. Show of hands, everyone surprised by this! What’s really surprising is that, in 2012, this has to be announced. Don’t you foolish movie fans know everything is just a pretext to a bigger and more exciting product, that the old-fashioned one-sequel franchise model died like a century ago? How many years until octologies becomes the standard franchise model? I LITERALLY CAN’T WAIT!

But will this Amazing Spider-Man 2 be a reboot of Spider-Man 2 (2004)? That would be weird.

Related: Our review of The Amazing Spider-Man