The Hollywood Reporter has an article up with five alleged contenders for the role of Peter Parker in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot — but why sit there with names and not faces? Cheer up, Rama readers, we got your back!
Jamie Bell: The 24-year-old former Billy Elliot already has some genre cred to his name, having performed in Peter Jackson’s King Kong, as well as the upcoming Steven Spielberg Tin-Tin film.
Alden Ehrenreich: An up-and-comer, the 20-year-old is pals with Steven Spielberg and was in Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro last year.
Frank Dillane: Frank is a 19-year-old British actor who played a young Tom Riddle in the latest Harry Potter films.
Andrew Garfield: Most recently, the 27-year-old has been seen in the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was Heath Ledger’s last film.
Josh Hutcherson: My personal favorite of the bunch, the 17-year-old has worked on a host of kid-friendly films like Jon Favreau’s Zathura, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Bridge to Terabithia.
Of course, this could all be for nothing — as you’ll recall with Captain America, they had a host of potential players in the wings, only for Chris Evans to swoop in and snag the role later on. What say you, Rama readers? Which one do you want to see wear the webs?
[Images via IMDB and the Harry Potter wiki]
May 27th, 2010 at 9:39 am
none of them – spiderman (1 and 2 at least) were brilliant – a reboot is completely unecessary
May 27th, 2010 at 9:45 am
Jamie Bell looks like he might already be spiderman. I really can’t see it with the other guys. :/
May 27th, 2010 at 9:51 am
All of those choices are dreadful.
Number 1 inflicted Billy Elliot on the world and is just too ugly and wrong looking.
Number 2 is Vince Vaughn from Earth 5. The differences being he’s ten years younger and has ‘darker’ hobbies. And more smarm. Much, much more smarm.
Number 3′s nose is too big.
Number 4 is just……..no.
Number 5. That’s the worst, most unprofessional, dreadfully lit, and yet thoroughly adult chatline friendly picture I’ve seen in quite some time.
Terrible choices all.
May 27th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Justin Bieber! Make it Justin Bieber!
(insert maniacal mad scientist laughter)
OK, I was being sarcastic.
Actually, I just want them to give Spider-Man back to Marvel’s movie division. I want to see them create an entire universe, and what would the universe be without Spider-Man? In the 3 SM movies to date, there’s been no mention of other super-heroes, giving the impression that Spidey’s the only one around. That’s not Marvel!
(Although I did love the first 2 Spidey movies.)
May 27th, 2010 at 10:57 am
That Garfield guy looks like a pez dispenser. 1 or 5, if I have to pick from this group.
May 27th, 2010 at 11:02 am
Fail! Scrap these choices and try again. (cue Youtube piano cat).
May 27th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Of those guys, only Andrew Garfield has the classic Peter Parker look. Then again, aren’t they casting for a high school age Parker this time around? He might be too old. Then again, so was Maguire. Am I the only one who thinks it’s counter-productive to have a 27 year-old play a 17 year old?
May 27th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Sigh. If they insist on a reboot, cast a young guy, nail down three scripts and shoot them back to back. It’s ridiculous to hire a 25 year old to play a teen, and then take 8-10 years to shoot three films.
May 27th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
if I HAD to choose one of the 5 based on looks alone, it would be #5, that Josh kid.
Sigh. I don’t know. To me, a reboot is totally unnecessary.
If Marvel/Sony were asking ME, just get rid of the things they did wrong in #3…Get a new fresh faced cast (but keep Simmons as JJJ), cut down the number of villains, get rid of all the cheesy dialogue and dance numbers, make the movie light and fun, not all ‘emo’ and reignite the whole love interest thing by having MJ be away/on tour singing or something and have a new girl on the scene(Felicia, Betty Brant, Gwen), pop in the Lizard as the villain (as a build up to the Sinister Six in Spidey 6), and VOILA!
May 27th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Spider-man 1 and 2 were awful. Tobey was a terrible Spider-man. He lacked the witty banter associated with the webbed one. In fact, he was downright pathetic. Something Spider-man is not.
All for the reboot!
May 27th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
The whole debate is pointless to me, since I’m not seeing any spidey film that Sam Raimi isn’t directing. They scored a coup by having an ACTUAL SPIDY FAN direct 2 great movies and one EH? film… and now the studio is stupid enough to dissassemble a great team just because they insisted on cramming too many villains into number 3, and the fans voted with their feet!!!!
Bean counters will never learn that in movies, talent trumps finance!
May 27th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Well, I hate Hollywood casting twenty-something actors for teenage roles, but I’ll ignore that for the sake of argument.
Other than the ears Jamie Bell looks sufficiently Parker-ish, but I honestly can’t remember his acting in either film despite having seen both.
No idea how good Alden Ehrenreich can act either, but just plain looks wrong.
I liked Frank Dillane’s Tom Riddle, but he looks way too cute for the role IMHO. Might work, though.
Andrew Garfield looks familiar, but I can’t remember where I’ve seen him. Anyway, he does look kind of Parker-ish, but to be frank, Pete’s supposed to look better than that. And, please, 27!?
I liked Josh Hutcherson in those kid-friendly movies and depending on how they dress him he may very well end up looking like puny Parker. So if I had to choose, I’d pick him.
May 27th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
First or last guys! But i wouldn’t put any of them!
May 27th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Hutcherson (# 5) looks the most like the comic character. No idea if he can act.
Honestly, casting hardly matters with a movie like this. We’re not talking Shakespeare here. The actual Spider-Man will be played by stunt-men, and the rest of the movie will be a cross between “Saved By the Bell” and “Power Rangers.”
May 27th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
I only care about one thing:
DON’T devote the whole movie to rehashing the origin!
If you feel it has to be in there at all, cover it in the quickest flashback or even summary-in-dialogue-or-narration possible and devote as much of the movie as possible to a story about Peter being Spider-Man.
May 27th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
how about miley cyrus? or ashton kutcher?
May 27th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
THEY ALL SUCK!!!!!
May 28th, 2010 at 12:50 am
What’s Zac Efron doing these days? (Kidding)
May 28th, 2010 at 2:34 am
Why don’t they throw Jake Lloyd a bone and cast him as Peter Parker. He hasn’t been in anything since Phantom Menace – give him a break!!
Imagine Spidey swinging thru the building with a big “Yipee!”
Two words:
Jake
Lloyd
You know I’m right!
May 28th, 2010 at 6:11 am
@twincast, he was in an episode of Doctor Who. The one set in New York, I think. With human daleks and people turning part pig.
May 28th, 2010 at 7:22 am
Y’can’t dance your way outta this one Billy Elliot!
May 28th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Every choice is a fail. I actually didnt mind when Wizard did there choices and had Josh Peck as one of them. Elijah Wood has always been Peter Parker to me-Im sorry.
Elijah Wood-Peter Parker
Amanda Bynnes- MJ
May 28th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Chris Evans as Cap sucks and so does the idea of rebooting Spiderman.
May 28th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
None of these guys. This is just terrible. Totally off the mark.
May 28th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Hutcherson does good work. I’d be happy to see it go to him.
May 28th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Okay. I’ve changed my mind.
I actually like Andrew Garfield as the new Peter Parker.
Also, we absolutely DO NOT need to see another frigging origin story for the reboot. Focus on Spiderman stories that take place after the Tobey Maguire years, and BAM!, that instantly solves this stupid issue of Parker being a high school kid, and you can launch straight into some action-packed, big-boy storytelling.
In media and entertainment we have way too much attention focused on high school life, a time-period most people hated anyway.
May 29th, 2010 at 8:00 am
I choose #6, Michael Angarano.
June 1st, 2010 at 6:49 am
Belle looks good, but let’s worry more about a well written story with those goofy joke/battles we all know and love soo much. The first two movies were fine, but they were . . . how shall we say overly hollywoodish, and underly spidermanish. (yes i made a few words up) Spidey’s thing is to kick ass, save the city, and get his MJ while keeping a smile on and laughing at the villain as he does it. Too much drama in these superhero movies these days.
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:23 am
Haven’t you people heard? It’s all about Donald Glover right now!
June 2nd, 2010 at 3:42 pm
I truly love Justin. He’s so handsome and makes really great songs. Hope i can see him live soon
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June 7th, 2010 at 11:56 am
I guess #5 but definitely not my first choice. A younger Jake Gyllenhal (Donnie Darko) or even Aaron Johnson (Kickass). And I know this is the wrong thread but I’m still venting about how bad of a choice Chris Evans was for Cap. Makes me sick. I would have preferred almost anybody else… shivers.
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