After months of speculation Columbia Pictures have confirmed that Andrew Garfield has been signed up to play Peter Parker/Spiderman in Marc Webb’s upcoming 3D Spider-Man reboot. Garfield was among the list of final contenders along with Jamie Bell, Anton Yelchin, Aaron Johnson, Logan Lerman, Alden Ehrenreich, Frank Dillane, Michael Angarano, and Josh Hutcherson. This casting decision gets two big thumbs up from me, Garfield is a class act, he was fantastic in Boy A, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Lions For Lambs. Garfield is going to get a lot more exposure later this year when he’s seen in David Fincher’s Facebook movie The Social Network and Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go alongside Carey Mulligan. With this casting decision and the fact that Marc Webb is directing, I’m actually looking forward to this reboot. Marc Webb directed (500) Days Of Summer, a film I really enjoyed– a HUUUUUGGGGE achievement considering my devout hatred of romantic comedies. One thing that does baffle me about this decision is that I thought that they were looking for a High School Spiderman, Garfield is 26……….he look’s kind of young I guess.

“Spider-Man is a classic superhero — a young man who balances his responsibility to serve humanity and crush evil with the shyness and normalcy of someone struggling to find himself. The role demands an extraordinary actor. You need someone who can magically transform himself from Peter Parker into Spider-Man. An actor who will depict the vulnerability of youth and the strength and confidence of a legendary figure at the same moment. We have found that actor in Andrew Garfield. From the first time we saw him in the upcoming film The Social Network, to his glorious screen test, which floored all of us, we knew that we had found our new Peter Parker,” says Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures.

On selecting Garfield, director Marc Webb said, “Though his name may be new to many, those who know this young actor’s work understand his extraordinary talents. He has a rare combination of intelligence, wit, and humanity. Mark my words, you will love Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker.” Spider-Man swings back onto the screen in 3D on July 3, 2012. The new film will begin production in early December directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt. Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad will produce the film from Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios.



By Zeus’ beard WTF has happened to Jack Black’s face!!! He looks like he’s been photo-shopped into botox heaven……To be honest I know very little about the Gulliver’s Travels stories, I never read the a novels as a kid or even watched the television series in the mid 90’s. I like Jack Black though, 90% of the time he cracks me up, 10% of the time he annoys the hell out of me – see Year One. This poster doesn’t exactly entice me, hopefully the poster is a bit better.

Lemuel Gulliver, a free-spirited travel writer, while on assignment in the Bermuda Triangle, finds himself washed ashore on the hidden island of Liliput. Jack Black stars as the titular character with a supporting cast of Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Amanda Peet, and Chris O’Dowd.  Rob Letterman (Monsters vs. Aliens) directs from a script by Joe Stillman (Shrek 2) and Nicholas Stoller (Get Him to the Greek).  Gulliver’s Travels is slated to hit cinemas in 3D on December 22, 2010.

I’m not a fan of reboots and remakes, it seems like Hollywood has run out of ideas, especially with horror films it’s getting silly now. I have to say though this poster looks great, it looks very creepy, I’m gonna check out the film just for the fact that I’m big a horror fan, hopefully it isn’t a giant steaming pile of sh*t. Look out for a trailer on Thursday.

Freddy Krueger returns in “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” a contemporary re-imagining of the horror classic. A group of suburban teenagers share one common bond: they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger, a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake, they can protect one another…but when they sleep, there is no escape. Donning Freddy’s trademark fedora, red-and-green striped sweater, and four-bladed glove is Academy Award® nominee Jackie Earle Haley (“Little Children,” “Watchmen”).

Last week this was just a rumour, now the ink has dried. Marc Webb has signed up for 3 Spiderman movies. To be honest this reboot doesn’t interest me at all, I’m not that big on Spiderman as a character in general, I have to say though I really like the choice of Marc Webb, I really enjoyed (500) Days Of Summer – a HUGE achievement considering my devout hatred of romantic comedies. The only problem I can see with Marc Webb directing is how much creative control he will hold. Having only made one 1 small budget film doesn’t give him a huge amount of clout with Columbia. So much has been said about the studios interference with Spiderman 3 and the direction of the now dead and buried Spiderman 4, hopefully this new reboot doesn’t follow the same path.

Webb said, “This is a dream come true and I couldn’t be more aware of the challenge, responsibility, or opportunity. Sam Raimi’s virtuoso rendering of  Spider-Man is a humbling precedent to follow and build upon.  The first three films are beloved for good reason.  But I think the Spider-Man mythology transcends not only generations but directors as well.  I am signing on not to ‘take over’ from Sam.  That would be impossible.  Not to mention arrogant.  I’m here because there’s an opportunity for ideas, stories, and histories that will add a new dimension, canvas, and creative voice to Spider-Man.”

Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man, added, “I’m excited that Sony has chosen a director with a real penchant and understanding for the character.  This is a brave, bold direction for the franchise, and I can’t wait to see what Marc comes up with next.”

Deadline.com have reported that Marc Webb is at the top of Sony’s list for the new Spiderman reboot (after the cancellation of Spiderman 4), “Webb met about the Spidey reboot with the pic’s producers and executives looking to get the picture into production later this year for a Summer 2012 release.”

I don’t usually cover much rumours and speculation but this has interested me and also given me the opportunity to unleash my Marc Webb interview I done while he was promoting (500) Days Of Summer last year . I was a big fan of (500) Days Of Summer, I usually HATE ‘romantic comedies’ but that was the most honest film you could put in that category in years. It looks like Sony loved it as well, in the deadline article they say Sony wants “a director with a grasp of how to depict the way young people think and feel. This is critical because the Jamie Vanderbilt script covers the formative years of a high school-aged Peter Parker, and that POV is as important as the action sequences.” Check out my interview below and for more details on the Spiderman reboot check out deadline.com

Its very rare to have a romantic comedy men actually like and one from a guys point if view

Marc Webb: (Laughs) Thanks, to me it was less about the guys point of view, it was more of a persons point of view, a lot of times with these sort of films they show both points of view. It was more of his naïve approach to love, maybe its not as sophisticated as it should be and there’s a consequence to that, that’s what I identified with, there was a time in my life, when I was very much in his shoes (laughs)

I think that’s why a lot of guys seem to be relating to it, how important was it to get someone like Joey for the part because he is perfect?

Marc Webb: I met with a lot of actors, but he was the first one to get underneath it, the first time I met him, he asked why am I making this movie, and nobody had asked me that question before, I thought that’s a simple stupidly obvious question that’s great. We had a really good discussion that most of the films involved in romance have false hopes of love, especially for guys, who are often the sub plot, like with Hitch for example, there’s some really interesting things Will Smith is saying in the film and his charisma carries it, but the message if you wax your back and you learn to dance your gonna marry a super model, is fucking bullshit (laughs) its very reductive and hurtful, its very seductive to look like that but it’s false, so we wanted to play with a character that thought them sort of things and we had to subvert those things but without being cynical.

The films very honest.

Marc Webb: Yeah but I do know people who have actually found their girlfriend in High School when they were 17, I can think of three examples, they probably wouldn’t get the film so much. It probably wasn’t as emotionally resonate with them. But god bless them if their that lucky (laughs)

The chemistry was very strong between Zooey and Joseph how did you know they would hit it off so well?

Marc Webb: I wasn’t a hundred percent sure they would be great, we didn’t read them together, but I had seen them in Manic together, I met Joey and we were talking about who should play Summer, he said a couple people then he had a look in his eye and said Zooey, she’s got this energy, I knew through the look in his eye I could hang the movie on that. He got depressed though and said nobody will make a film with just us two because we’re not big enough stars, but one of the benefits of doing a film with such a small budget is that you don’t have to stuff a star into it. They’ve known each other and they respect each other which was so important, the engine of these sort of movies is the characters chemistry. They are great actors, Joey uses his physicality so well, we took away lines from the film while editing just because his body said all that needed to be said

(500) Days Of Summer is very unconventional, you know people love to categorise everything, how would you categorise it?

Marc Webb: The best way of categorising it is as a coming of age story masquerading as a romantic comedy, a love story implies certain things we wanted to side step. The same piece of information can look very different to someone else, like in The Graduate.