• he isn' talking about the Lethal Weapons "...too old for this shit" Glover, he is saying Donald Glover who stars in Community (Troy the jock football player whose friends with Abed). He's also been in a movie he created with his Comedy group Derrick Comedy and is rapper known as Childish Gambino!!! I really think he should do it but so many people have given him shit because "spiderman can't be black" bullshit.

• One of the most HILARIOUS things about this is that people were frothing at the mouth when they toyed around with the idea of letting Peter being any race, but now everyone's complaining that the white guy that was chosen isn't good enough/ too bland.

• I thought we all agreed a fat cat was going to be the next Spiderman.

• Yeah poor job on you guys. You deliberately chose this image to force a poor point. How man actors have done weird roles? The answer is many. Someone mention Brandon Routh.Singer told him to act like Reeves and that's what he got. Actors can only deliver as much as their director allows. Routh has been capable a much better actor(or more expressive) before and since. Also the Superman build is dependent on the artist. Some like Ross make him body builder huge. Others make him body builder toner huge. Some go for a swimmers body.Routh had the size to play Superman. Singer chose a swimmers body form for him that made him look smaller then he was. Physical appearance to me means little. How many times have we seen a skinny guy bulk the hell up for the movie. Maguire and Bale certainly went from skinny to bulky. Spiderman isn't even supposed to be a huge guy. He's got a gymnast build. Also this SM3 bs needs to seriously end. Somehow people have gotten in their heads that the general public hated this film. You want to BO of a hated film at least look at Batman and Robin. At 800 million plus they had faith in a 4th film. The problem lay in budget and time. The plan was always to reboot, Raimi basically sped up the plan.

• Doctor Who, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Red Riding, Boy A. what the hell's the matter with you people? leave the boy alone. good on ya lad- you go do whatever a spider can.

• Why is some tawdry Edward lookalike playing spiderman? I mean really? I would rather spend two hours watching a Nikolas Sparks movie than watch this Best Sideburns Award Winner play the web slinger.

• I think for Fury, they were going for the Ultimate Nick Fury who definitely looked like Samuel L. Jackson... and he has that BAMF status. Fisk... not sure what they were thinking.

• toby was shooting white sticky stuff out of his wrists, and on a spider its supposed to come out of its backside. so maybe when he gotten bitten it made his sperm reroute through his arms.

• hahaha well they made nick fury black and Wilson Fisk black

• isnt he old and black?

• maybe his parents the "spies" will be in it

• The Sun newspaper in my city thought it was news worthy to write that the kid from Zathura still doesnt know if hes getting the part! and even the radio station here knows like everyone else who its going to be. Thats just bad investigative journalism

• At least he's not a stinking ni..............

• Didn't we all react the same way when Heath Ledger was cast as the Joker? Andrew Garfield's a scrawny unknown actor, who has the misfortune of being shown on this site with the most hipster douche photo he's taken. Seriously, did you go out of your way to find it, because just a cursory search didn't produce it. Actually, there were a lot of photos where he looked, you know, fucking normal. He looks like he could be Peter Parker in high school. I mean, dude may be 27 but he looks like a sixteen year old kid. Which, surprise, actually works in this film's favor. Also, was I the only person who just never believed Tobey Maguire as Spidey? Or Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane? It was like watching a stage production of Spiderman. They kinda look like the characters, and they can deliver their lines, and there's even over exaggerated body language throughout their performances so the audience in the back can understand what's going on. But I don't want to see the high school stage play of Spiderman. I want the movie. (the exception to any of this is Doc Ock. Molina actually got that shit right.) Hiring an unknown actor, who has actually been pretty good in what he's been in, isn't going to kill this movie. What they do with him, and the story, and the representation of the characters, that's what could kill this movie.

• <i>Keanu Reeves was in the Matrix, Ryan Phillipe was in Breach, both awesome movies, both awful actors.</i> The Matrix worked because it played to Keanu's strengths as a flat actor. In the movie, he's supposed to say "Whoa" and be clueless the whole time. Sure, Brandon Routh may have been great in "indie" films, but he was terrible as Superman. (The fact that he wore spandex and didn't have Superman's build didn't help either.) This casting could be along the lines of "Batman & Robin": the studio wants the movie to appeal to the millions of Twilight fans instead of the hundreds (or tens) of thousands of Spider-Man fans. Too many studios miss the fact that if they make a GOOD movie, people will see it, even if it's a "comic book movie": just look at "The Dark Knight" and "Iron Man" as proof. I never collected or read Iron Man comics as a kid, but I thought the movie was great.

• Either way it'd be better than Spider-Man 3 . . .

• This guy looks like the guy you would get if you can't hire Robert Pattinson. Because, you know, he looks like a freakin clone of the guy... wait... Clones being used in a Spider-Man film!? We're all screwed now

• >>>>>Look, Matt Smith has proven to me that actors can be exceedingly weird looking and still do a great job;<<<<<< Matt Smith can get away with looking weird because he's playing an alien. Peter Parker is supposed to be an everyman...or everykid, as the case may be.

• Should I be weeping tears of joy or fear?

• He was also in Dr. Parnassus and can play the "I like the hot red head, but I'm a loser and she'd rather sleep with the bad boy" type.

• He was in Doctor Who. He was one of those guys turned into pigs by the Daleks. OH MY GOD THEY'RE ACTUALLY MAKING A PETER PORKER: THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-HAM MOVIE!!!!!

• I think the kid from GAMER would have been a good teenage Spiderman...He's playing in that Peter Jackson Sorcerer(sp?) shit right now... In any event I hope this version of spiderman has an actual effin personality...That would be nice scince emo-spidey was sadly the best of Tobey Mcguires range as an actor...

• Get that spaz a blanket. Dude looks cold...

• Hahhahahahaha

• +1

• For those of you who don't know who Andrew Garfield is I suggest watching Terry Gilliam's latest masterpiece: "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus". Granted he is 27 years old and that baby face of his isn't that convincing for a high schooler, but out of the choices Sony had lined up I'm much happier in this choice than that kid from "Journey to the Center of the Earth" that kid just looks Derpy.

• Smallville was originally well received, I wouldn't classify Tom Weiling as a good actor. NYPD Blue was a critical smash and David Caruso was credited for an awesome performance. Have you seen an episode of CSI Miami? He's awful and the butt of jokes on other shows. Keanu Reeves was in the Matrix, Ryan Phillipe was in Breach, both awesome movies, both awful actors. Denial, the movie I mentioned before with Brandon Routh, was the example of how he really has acting chops and will do well as Superman. Except he didn't, his acting was wooden. Critics loved Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight and Blood & Money. She's not a good actress. I'm not saying he's a bad actor or that it was a bad choice. He could be great, the movie could be great.

• I will accept Donald Glover not playing Peter if and only if Sony promises to do a Spiderman/ Kickpuncher team up.

• Nah, man, he meant Crispin Glover--THAT would have been epic!!!!

• I totally know how you feel, Homer... I felt myself get adrenalized (in a bad way) just now...

• Please, people; Don't take this movie seriously. - Look, for those who don't understand, Sony has to keep making Spider-Man movies to hang onto the film rights, otherwise they go back to Marvel Studios, and Sony Pictures doesn't want that to happen as long as Spider-Man is somewhat lucrative. - However, SM3 was atrocious, and Sony knows it. They also know, from watching what happened to Batman in the 90s, that making another would be a risk. The stars were asking for more money, the director already cost too much, and the effects budget was getting bigger. Why spend the money on A-list celebrities and directors when they could get some scabs to serve as placeholders for the franchise? - So they hire this "up and coming" mook, and I guarantee he works cheaper than Tobey. And they get a "cutting edge" director who doesn't command Raimi's level of pay. They slap it together and aim for the "Twilight" crowd by focusing heavily on the social aspects of the story and keeping the effects scenes to a minimum. - Voila! They maintain their film rights to Spider-Man, prevent Marvel Studios from getting Spidey back, and have an inexpensive "new" franchise that might work and make huge profits, or might fail and be a minor loss compared to the value of the film rights to Spider-Man. -

• He was in Boy A and Red Riding, two well received TV shows in the UK (just because you may not have seen them doesn't mean they're hopelessly obscure), and the films he's been in to date are not blockbusters, but neither are they virtually unknown. I'd be far more concerned with the movie they want to do rather than who they've cast.

• Ditto.

• Do we really need to see the story of how Peter became Spider Man for the umpteenth time? I'm gonna pass on this one, but I'm pretty sure it'll have a big opening and they'll make a sequel about two years later.

• Before Superman Returns came out, I read all those posts about how Brandon Routh has serious acting chops because of some indie movies he was in. So please spare us the "no, he was really great in this movie no one on Earth ever saw, because I saw a 20 second clip on YouTube." Obviously, they went with someone that would appeal to young girls, a lot of the first Spider-Man's success was based on the McGuire/Dunst pair-up. They tried to copy that with Superman Returns, that didn't do too well. But, a lot of that was due to Superman not really doing much. That he looks like someone that would be in Twilight only works for today's kids. So I don't have an issue with that. Peter Parker was never ugly, he was just a nerd who wore glasses. Cute boys that act weird around other girls tend to be viewed as more weird then cute. He got more confident when he got his powers and confidence led to him getting "Hot" girls like Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane. So who knows?

• Personally, I'm glad they've chosen someone I've never heard of. But, I'm not sure how I feel about them picking a guy who looks like a reject from an audition to play the Doctor.

• He might be great, he might be terrible, I don't care. I have no interest in seeing Spider-Man rebooted.

• Having seen him in both <i>Red Riding</i> and <i>The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus</i>, (and technically those two sub-par Dalek episodes from season three of <i>Doctor Who</i>, but I honestly don't remember him in them) I'm just fine with this casting decision. My only question is this: Didn't Sony want to skew younger with their casting? I mean, he's roughly the same age Tobey Maguire was when the first <i>Spider-Man</i> was made, but they moved him to college within the first movie. I thought Sony wanted to stick with high-school-aged Spidey for a bit.

• My bad casting sense is tingling.

• Maybe Glover if could be Peter, Mel Gibson could be Harry, and Joe Pesci could be Flash Thompson?

• I think that this is just Columbia/Sony trying to force Marvel/Disneys hand into forking over cash to purchase back the Spidey franchise. This movie may never get made. I hope!

• So if the guy is already 27, does that mean after three more movies we're getting another reboot in 2022? Fuck.

• Eh. I don't know much about his acting so I'll wait for trailers. If this ever gets made.

• lol. I read your blog all the time and every now and then make a comment. In certain situations you put it perfectly in a way that makes me laugh. This is one of those examples. "...so it makes sense that they'd cast a 27-year-old who has appeared in both jack and shit." I apologize in advance, but I'm stealing that line for my own use. I'll give you credit as much as possible. That's priceless.

• with out that hair do he kind of looks a little like peter parker for after all fans did not think Tobey was right for the part till the movies came out. the guy should be given a chance as long as this means no goblin power ranger armour again. the worse is fans reject Andrew and thus sony loses the rights back to Dismarvel.

• WHAAAATTTTTT! I don't like him. :O

• I thought he was excellent in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I have no truck with Andrew Garfield. I have a major problem with a Spidey movie reboot not quite 5 years after the last incarnation. Holy Diver the well must be dry!

• I've said it before, I'll say it again. FUCK HOLLYWOOD! FUCK THEM ALL WITH A SPIKED IRON BASEBALL BAT!

• He was pretty good in the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The photo I saw of him for the announcement looked more Peter Parker-ish. This one is way more hipster-emo.

• ...urge to kill...RISING!!!

• I have no problem with him. I DO have a problem with a whole new Spiderman...BEGINS !!! film, because that is just not what the franchise needs. A decent film with action, excitement, a whole lot of fun and some decent villains is what is needed - sitting for an hour whilst we go through the whole " Uncle Ben !!! Noooooo!!!!/ Oh Peter, what'll we do for money ?/ If only I had stopped that burglar < CHOKE > " milarkey is not.

• Perhaps THIS origin story will finally explain the beginnings of the huge rice empire.

• Less worried about the cast, more worried about the secretivity of the story. Who is even the villain?

• That is possibly the worst picture you could've used, which is a shame because everything I've seen him in he hasn't played an emo douche as for the age thing, idk it could work, I know for a fact that disney once cast a 32 year old as a 17 year old and I don't think anyone really noticed.

• You'll rarely see a teenager playing a teenager in movies because a perpetual man-boy won't age and cause continuity problems in re-shoots/sequels.

• I didn't know about the Donald Glover-thing before now, but no I can't stop picturing him as Spider-Man. Andrew here? Not so much. I guess we'll see.

• do you guys think in the reboot spidey is gonna make webshooters and webs or just go with the whole i have a white thing on my wrist that makes web

• Don't worry guys we all know that the writers won't make the Peter Parker in this movie anything like he is in the comic, so chill.

• Shhhh that's how propaganda works

• Probably why he was hired.

• Yeah, he only looks like a douche because you found a really douchey picture of him. He was excellent in Boy A, and until we know firmer details of the plot of the reboot we can ignore he age for now

• Danny Glover was asked to be in it, but he said he was "getting to old for this shit."

• I too was pulling for Hutcherson. Ce la vie, I guess. Although, this kid was pretty good in Dr Parnasus. Spider-Man is kind of played out at this point though, do we really need more?

• This dude is my age....and I'm hardly a "teen-aged Peter Parker"....Why couldn't they get, you know, a TEENAGER to play a TEENAGER for once?!?!?!?! This all said, I really wasn't sure about Toby Maguire at first either, and he did a pretty good job, so maybe we are all worrying/bitching for nothing....

• Jack and squat including The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and two Doctor Who episodes (Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks). Dude can pull off an American accent. So what if he's not a big name star, I think he's a great fit. Rob, get a better picture of him, one that doesn't lead people to believe he's emo!

• Andrew Garfield has serious acting chops check out Red Riding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx5rqw9tXB8&feature=fvw And Boy A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHoj0uagkBg And you're telling me Toby Maguire didn't Beef himself up to play spidey in the 1st one?

• I totally didn't recognise him, he certainly looks weird from that angle. He was also in 2 eps of David Tennant's Doctor Who aswell so my hopes for him being a decent Spider-man are up!

• What's with that fro? Get a haircut Hippie!

• I think Danny Glover would be an awesome pick for a high school Peter Parker.. ..wait.. who?

• I really wanted Hutcherson to get the role...

• I doubt any of you know who this guy is. He's British and he's not a huge douche. Check out Red Riding, he was pretty good in that.

• Anyone else find it strange that they cast a brit to be Spider-man?

• Oh great, they went for "Emo Pete" because it made the last movie soooo good.

• This "kid" looks like a vampire from Twilight.

• Great. We get to watch the origin story all over again. Who wants to bet that Uncle Ben <i>doesn't</i> get killed this time?

• HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYY FOOK! That is all.

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