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Spider-Man 4/Re-boot
Spider-Man 4, or as some call it, Spider-Man Re-boot, will be directed by Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt (The Losers, Zodiac, Basic, Darkness Falls), and produced by Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin.
The project will begin production in December and will be released in theaters nationwide in 3D on July 3, 2012. Portraying the web-slinger this time around is newcomer Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), and Emma Stone (Superbad, Zombieland) has been cast as Gwen Stacy
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Andrew Garfield Talks About The Honor Of Being A Part Of The Legacy
Andrew Garfield has been playing Spider-Man since he was tiny. Now he's putting on his childhood superhero's suit for real. With two major dramatic roles hitting theaters in the coming weeks, Garfield then follows in the title role for the new incarnation of the "Spider-Man" franchise, which begins shooting in December.
The 27-year-old Garfield can barely remember a time when Spidey and his average, awkward alter-ego Peter Parker were not part of his life. His degree of devotion to the Marvel Comics hero?
"Massive. Since I was 4 years old," Garfield said in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, where his drama "Never Let Me Go," featuring Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, played ahead of its theatrical release Wednesday. And the appeal of Peter Parker, the youth Garfield will play in the franchise's fresh start after Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi opted out of a fourth "Spider-Man" flick?
"Every single generation of the comic, the cartoons and the movies, it all means a great deal to me. It was always something that gave me hope as a skinny little kid whose sense of injustice about the world didn't match his sense of strength about his body. I found it so inspiring and uplifting and reassuring. To be a part of that mythology and that legacy is a true honor."
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Emma Stone Confirmed For Spider-Man
Sony has released the following press announcement regarding casting in the up Spiderman project: "Emma Stone has been cast as the female lead in the upcoming Spider-Man film from Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, it was announced today by Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and Matt Tolmach, president of Columbia Pictures. Stone has been tapped for the role of Gwen Stacy opposite Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker.
The film, to be directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt and produced by Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin, will begin production in December and will be released in theaters nationwide in 3D on July 3, 2012 The casting continues an association between Sony Pictures Entertainment and the actress, who previously starred in Superbad, The House Bunny, and Zombieland, all for Columbia Pictures; she may currently be seen in Screen Gems’ hit comedy Easy A, and takes a cameo role in Screen Gems’ upcoming Friends with Benefits.
Commenting on the announcement, Tolmach said, “It’s been an incredible journey for us to watch Emma’s star rise as an actress. She is extraordinarily talented and has a very special on-screen spark that is perfect for this role. Given her history with the studio, casting her in one of our most important franchises is a real thrill.”
Webb added, “The chemistry between Andrew and Emma was stunning and made Emma the clear choice. At the heart of the story of Peter Parker is not only the amazing Spider-Man, but also an ordinary teenager who is wondering what he has to do to get the girl. Andrew and Emma will bring everything audiences expect to these roles, but also make them their own. Much to my surprise, it was fun to find out that our choice for Gwen (Emma) is also a natural blonde.”
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Andrew Garfield Talks About Preparing
for the Spider-Man Re-boot
The Hollywood Report had a chance to talk with Garfield, here is a higlight of the interview, click the title link above for the complete article.
Have you been prepping for Spider-Man?
I have been waiting for this phone call for 24 years, for someone to call me up and say, "Hey, we want you to pretend to be a character that you've always wanted to be all your life, and we're going to do it with cool cameras and cool effects and you're going to feel like you're swinging through New York City.
Do you want to do that?" [laughs] "Let me just consult with my seven-year old self and see what he thinks..." So my seven-year-old self started screaming in my soul and saying, This is what we've been waiting for.
Like every young boy who feels stronger on the inside than they look on the outside, any skinny boy basically who wishes their muscles matched their sense of injustice, God, it's just the stuff that dreams are made of, for sure.
It's a true f**king honor to be part of this symbol that I actually think is a very important symbol and it's meant a great deal to me, and it continues to mean something to people. So yeah, I feel like I've been preparing for it for a while. Ever since Halloween when I was four years old and I wore my first Spider-Man costume.
What's your approach to wrapping your brain around the coming shift in terms of your increased visibility with Spider-Man?
Not to give it credence, not to give it any of my energy. Just approach it like any other job that I care about deeply. That may be naive of me to think that I can just get away with that. But if you give focus to something, it will grow. I just want to be an actor, really. And of course all those things came into consideration when I was making the decision. But at the end of the day, I had faith that I would be able to not be defined by it. And I still have faith that I will be able to get lost in roles and just keep doing what I love to do.
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