Who's The New Spider-Man?
SodaHead Film
2010/05/28 02:46:01
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The new “Spider-Man” movie is being spun, with a director and an opening date nailed down. The director is Marc Webb, who helmed last summer's indie hit, "(500) Days of Summer." The premiere date is July 3, 2012. But the question most people want answered remains a mystery: who’s going to take over the tights from Tobey?
Since Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst will not be returning to this installment of the film franchise, which is an origin story, the hunt is on for a new leading man. According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Marc Webb has started to narrow down the casting list.
And the final five are…(drum roll please)….
1. Jamie Bell, who first made a splash in “Billy Elliot,” his film debut from 2000. He is also scheduled to star in “The Adventures of Tintin” for director Steven Spielberg.
2. Alden Ehrenreich was discovered in a bat mitzvah video, of all things, by Steven Spielberg, of all people. Ehrenreich has already starred in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Tetro” and has a role in Sofia Coppola’s upcoming “Somewhere.”
3. Frank Dillane played the young Tom Riddle in the last Harry Potter film. And that’s it. Well, he would certainly fulfill the “Unknown To Play Spidey!” headline.
4. Andrew Garfield appeared in Terry Giliam’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” and in the British “Red Riding” trilogy. He’s the oldest actor of the bunch, at 27. Too old to play young Spidey?
5. Josh Hutcherson is on the other end of the age scale, the youngest of the group at 17. His recent credits include “Zathura” and “Journey to the Center of the Earth.” Despite his relative youth, he’s perhaps the most experienced of the actors in contention for the role.
Who gets your vote to don the coveted Spider-Man tights? Do you like any of these finalists, or do you have a candidate of your own in mind?
Since Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst will not be returning to this installment of the film franchise, which is an origin story, the hunt is on for a new leading man. According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Marc Webb has started to narrow down the casting list.
And the final five are…(drum roll please)….
1. Jamie Bell, who first made a splash in “Billy Elliot,” his film debut from 2000. He is also scheduled to star in “The Adventures of Tintin” for director Steven Spielberg.
2. Alden Ehrenreich was discovered in a bat mitzvah video, of all things, by Steven Spielberg, of all people. Ehrenreich has already starred in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Tetro” and has a role in Sofia Coppola’s upcoming “Somewhere.”
3. Frank Dillane played the young Tom Riddle in the last Harry Potter film. And that’s it. Well, he would certainly fulfill the “Unknown To Play Spidey!” headline.
4. Andrew Garfield appeared in Terry Giliam’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” and in the British “Red Riding” trilogy. He’s the oldest actor of the bunch, at 27. Too old to play young Spidey?
5. Josh Hutcherson is on the other end of the age scale, the youngest of the group at 17. His recent credits include “Zathura” and “Journey to the Center of the Earth.” Despite his relative youth, he’s perhaps the most experienced of the actors in contention for the role.
Who gets your vote to don the coveted Spider-Man tights? Do you like any of these finalists, or do you have a candidate of your own in mind?
I think it's just another set, with a new director and all.
A sort of redemption for the Spiderman name.
But I can definitely see where you're coming from. You've just got to hope that a director will finally get it right.
I can't believe that that big green brain dude was there too.
The ending was probably the best part of the movie...they're leading up to the Avengers, its pretty obvious now, what with Thor and Iron Man. The Hulk was also one of the founding members.
Yeah but it's gonna be the New Avengers. Which is better, in my opinion.
I'm excited for the Captain America movie.
And I'm sure they'll cast Megan Fox as Spiderwoman.
Captain America! Woohoo!
But I'm still in the stage of wanting to see Thor Odinson!
haha. yeah, Thor should kick ass. Definitely looking forward to that.
SPIDERDOM!
Think of it as like “Batman Begins.” It’s not a continuation of either the Tim Burton nor (gag!) Joel Schumacher movies. It was the start of a whole new franchise, and was the first live-action Batman movie to roughly match the animated movie “Batman: Mask of the Phantasm” in overall quality. The new franchise continued with “The Dark Knight,” easily the best Batman — nay, the best superhero — movie ever made to date.
He was indeed a nerdy high-school teenager. That was a major part of his appeal to comics-reading kids. The previous teen superheroes were mostly sidekicks of adults heroes, like Robin, Speedy (Green Arrow’s sidekick), Kid Flash, etc. Captain Marvel (Billy Batson, not Marvel Comics’ deceased Kree warrior) was a notable exception, but he turned into a full-fledged adult when he said his magic word (unlike Captain Marvel Jr., who was his — you guessed it — sidekick).
Who could a kid identify with more? A grown-up from another planet who pretends to be a mild-mannered reporter, or a teenager who gets powers from some accident? And which would said kid rather be: a sidekick who takes orders from a grown-up superhero, or a superhero in his own right, with nobody knowing that he’s just a kid (this is also why Captain Marvel was so popular a generation previously, with DC Comics resorting to litigation against Fawcett Comics because Superman simply coudn’t compete against him in the marketplace of children’s fantasies)?
And which is why Hutcherson would play a better Spiderman than the other guys, of whom I know three of them are in their twenties.
That said, they can only do so much. If they do pick a truly young actor, he could play the role realistically for longer, thus allowing for a longer series of movies before they have to reboot yet again with a new version of the franchise, as they’re having to do now.
This is also the reason (Spoiler Warning for any Star Trek: The Next Generation fans who’d been trapped in a sub-space dimension for the past decade and only recently escaped and haven’t seen “Nemesis” yet, nor knows what happens in it!! If this is you, stop reading now!!!)
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that Data died in “Nemesis” — he’s supposed to be an unaging android, but Brent Spiner is noticeably aging. He simply could not play the role realistically much longer.
Way to take a childhood memory and donkey punch it