taffer

Not like that is anything new at all. At least they're not in their 30s like many actors playing high school kids.

Both Garfield and Maguiire played a teenage high school Peter Parker as well.

RocShemp

They should cast Grant Gustin as a major FU to DC over Justice League.

bluetoast

And nobody complained about that Walking Dead actress being 29 and playing a 16 year old.

Double_Oh_7

Simmons is the perfect JJJ. Who didn't think of him in that quick reference in ASM2??

Iron_Giant

My hope is this was in the works for awhile and they already had some scene filmed with:
-A spider biting someones hand
-An actor in a Spiderman's outfit swinging around.
-Bad guys who are tied up with Spider Webs being arrested by cops
-A door opening (cannot see who is opening the door) and Mary Jane says "Face it Tiger...you just hit the JACKPOT!"

d2cheer

I'll take this guy as Spider-man



Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Big Boy Laroux

Brodie-Sangster actually reminds me of Andrew Garfield. Long neck and all.

Ranger

Why is Garfield out? Too expensive or they just wanted someone new?

Troy Stiffler

Don't know. But it'd be hard to disconnect the two "Amazing Spiderman" movies if they're rebooting again.

Mondo Kane

Garfield contractually belonged to Sony, but the involvement of another studio causes immediate re-casting.

RocShemp

They could have easily drawn up a new contract if they wanted to keep him.

majorjoe23

That sounds like a pretty schizophrenic scene.

Dr. DVD

While I am happy this is mostly out of the hands of Sony, I feel Andrew Garfield is getting unfairly shafted. I didn't care much for his Peter Parker, but I think he did a better Spider-Man than Tobey Maguire.

I really hope they skip the whole origin story this time around when Marvel makes the solo movie. Just show a montage of stuff happening or jump right into him having the powers. The general public has seen two origin stories and there's no need to tell it again.

Mike86

He has kind of a douchey looking face and looks way young to me. Honestly I can't say that I'll miss Garfield as Peter or Spidey too much really. I don't feel like he did such a great job in either film that its a loss to not have him back for the new MCU film(s). I don't know much about Dylan O'Brien but he looks like he could fill the part pretty well to me.

Double_Oh_7

That is absurd. Both studios just wanted a clean slate.

Iron_Giant

Sorry, I should have been clearer.

Only one of those scenes would be in the "After Credits", not all of them.

taffer

He looks like he is 12 years old in that pic. I don't know who he is, so I looked him up on wikipedia, and he is apparently 24? WTF? Is that just a really old pic or does he really look like a 12 year old at age 24?

As for Garfield being out, it's most likely just because Marvel doesn't want to cause audience confusion by having the same actor play the same character in a reboot. They didn't bother getting Eric Bana back either for The Incredible Hulk for likely the same reason.

Sonic

Hey it's Evil Ed from Fright Night! You're so cool Brewster!!!

PhantomStranger

If Spider-Man is to be an integral part of Marvel's film mythology going forward, they will want a younger actor that can commit for a number of years. Even if Garfield was the perfect Spider-Man, he's simply too old at the moment to be playing the character in five years. Spider-Man will be used by Marvel to connect with teen audiences, since the Avengers are all older adults.

Guru Askew

They simply don't want Garfield back. Nothing more interesting than that.

Even if he was under contract for a third film or 9 films or whatever those contracts exist to hook the actor, not the studio. The best an actor can hope for is a contract that ensures they still get paid regardless of whether the studio casts them or not. Have you ever heard of an actor contractually forcing their way into a movie against the studio's wishes? Didn't think so.

Defiant1

Happens all the time. It is quite rare to use an actual teenage actor. Tobey Maguire was around 26 when he made the first SM and Andrew Garfield was around 28.

RocShemp

Isn't that the voice of Ferb from Phineas and Ferb? Are we to have a mostly mute Spidey this time around?

stingermck

Screw it, bring Tobey back. He's old enough now to hang with the big boy Avengers.

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2015/02/...xternal,manual

Tom Creo

Why would the MCU want the stink of Garfield on their films?

RocShemp

Because they hope to have Bill Murray play off Robert Downey, Jr?