New guy playing Spider Man? Eh??

So has anyone seen the guy that will be playing Peter Parker in the Spider Man reboot? Its kind of disappointing because ever since I heard Josh Hutcherson was in the running, I was really pulling for him, especially after how well I think he did in Cirque Du Freak: The Vampires Assistant. Well, if you haven't, follow the link to see a pic about the guy and also it has Josh Hutcherson's audition on the page as well. He did a fantastic job and I think they will regret not picking Hutcherson for the role.


Josh Hutcherson's Spidey Audition tape

He doesn't look nerdy enough :/

I'm still just hating the fact that it's a reboot. Spider-man's high school days are so corny and boring. That audition tape proved that and the movie will probably feel catered more to children than serious or comic-interested audiences. Spider-man's last movie wasn't that long ago so they can continue on from there or pretend like those never happened and put Peter and Mary J in whatever situation they want just, not at high school. In 3-D also doesn't help anything.

From what I've heard Mary Jane isn't the love interest in it. They are looking for a new one (new character) or to add in one of his others from the comic book.


If they do it right i'll be happy about it. They want to go the more dark feel of Batman and I feel they can do it with the first one. If they make it so that this kid is actually bullied, not just occasionally he gets his lunch money stolen, that he's having to cope with the death of his parents while living with his elderly aunt and uncle, and the fact that he gets bullied and gets the crap beaten out of him and he lives in a very low income area where he essentially needs the "street-smarts" that he is so lacking in.

And if they leave out the whole "with great power..." line. If they leave that out he has to figure it out him self. If he's a seriously effed up kid then a bit of power would go to his head quickly!

They CAN do a lot with it. The wonder is if they will :/

This whole reboot feels a bit premature if you ask me.

I'm with Dreddz on this one, it seems absurdly early to be 'rebooting' this franchise, and whichever actor you pick for the role isn't going to change that.

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Originally Posted by Freya

If they do it right i'll be happy about it. They want to go the more dark feel of Batman and I feel they can do it with the first one. If they make it so that this kid is actually bullied, not just occasionally he gets his lunch money stolen, that he's having to cope with the death of his parents while living with his elderly aunt and uncle, and the fact that he gets bullied and gets the crap beaten out of him and he lives in a very low income area where he essentially needs the "street-smarts" that he is so lacking in.

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That sounds pretty lame, I like the Spiderman films. I like the 'lightness' of it, as opposed to the new Batman films (also good).
That fight audition also showed the stupidness of it...no one fights like that in high school, it just seems so cheesy.

Also, what Dreddz said.

I agree with what most have said. Seems a little soon for a Spider-Man reboot and especially since it's the origin story again. Seen that story too many different times to be excited about another telling of it.

I wouldn't mind seeing a revamp to the series much like they did with the Hulk. New cast and story, sort of continuing where it left off but not making any reference to the previous films, and just doing their own thing. The problem with that is the current movies have already killed off many of Spidey's most recognized villains.

Well you said without reference to the previous films and I did say they should pretend like the others didn't exist. Besides that Spidey still has plenty of villains to choose from

Wha...WHY?! Okay I get that remakes are good money, but this is just silly. There are so many many successful movie franchises to be remade that haven't been dead for only three years. Somebody remake The Blob or something!

I'm totally okay with this. The emo scene in Spiderman 3 smurfed up that saga so far beyond repair that I will welcome this fresh start with open arms.

I would rather have them make that Black Panther movie that Wesley Snipes has been trying to get made since the 90's.

To be honest, after watching the second Spiderman, I refuse to watch them. They completely ruined the excitement I had for the big-budget Marvel movies. A few have been ok, such as the Hulk (The Edward Norton one of course) Iron Man 1 & 2, and the first Xmen movie and Orgins: Wolverine. Although I realize different people work on these movies (as I understand it that is) I just don't have much expectations for them now :/

Ha! I was just talking to Freya about this the other day.

I agree with most here, too soon for a reboot yada yada yada BUT, I'm a huge comic book fan and don't care how many they make, I'll still watch them all. Josh Hutcherson would have made a good Peter Parker, he had some pretty bitchin' moves in the audition tape. I have no idea who Andrew Garfield is but that picture of him in the link makes him looked better suited to play as a young Sylar.

Never been too crazy about "the other guy", so I'm perfectly content with this revelation.

I don't know about you guys but I really wanted AN ACTUAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT to be Spider-Man because doesn't this reboot take Peter back to high school? There's gotta some high school students in New York who are dabbling in acting so don't tell me there aren't any!!:mad:

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Originally Posted by Gothamite10092

I don't know about you guys but I really wanted AN ACTUAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT to be Spider-Man because doesn't this reboot take Peter back to high school? There's gotta some high school students in New York who are dabbling in acting so don't tell me there aren't any!!:mad:

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They can't really cast any actual high school students unless they are already 18. Due to child labor laws, they couldn't get enough work out of the under-18 year old for a typical filming workday. This is why most tv shows and films that are about primarily high school aged kids actually cast people who have already turned 18.

Are you kidding? Tobey Maguire made a killer Peter Parker.

I thought all the actors were still contracted to do a fourth in the current Spiderman series...

What happened was that they didn't like the script for the 4th (since they pretty much kiilled venom. They wanted to make Vulture the baddie and change black cat to vulturess) so it was re-written and they still didn't like it so the director was like "EF YOU" and so Tobey was also like "EF YOU TOO". Then the studio was like "FINE EF YOU GUYS. We'll just start over, you guys sucked anyway xP"

:exdee: Right, cause that always works SO well.

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Originally Posted by Gothamite10092

I don't know about you guys but I really wanted AN ACTUAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT to be Spider-Man because doesn't this reboot take Peter back to high school? There's gotta some high school students in New York who are dabbling in acting so don't tell me there aren't any!!:mad:

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They can't really cast any actual high school students unless they are already 18. Due to child labor laws, they couldn't get enough work out of the under-18 year old for a typical filming workday. This is why most tv shows and films that are about primarily high school aged kids actually cast people who have already turned 18.

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Well, they better invent some ground-breaking make-up that makes everybody at least look like they're high schoolers again. That's why animation works better for Spider-Man, because they can actually make Spidey look young and he stays young throughout the entire series because well, it's animation.

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Originally Posted by razorrozar7

:exdee: Right, cause that always works SO well.

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Well, the Batman Begins reboot worked out pretty well, when things went south for Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher. But since you're obviously skeptical, I'm guessing Marc Webb is no, Christopher Nolan, as far as directing skill goes.