CBR: CCI: "The Amazing Spider-Man" Cast Q&A Panel

[CBR News]

The cast of 2012's "Amazing Spider-Man" from Marvel Studios & Sony Pictures reveal the chemistry and heartfelt emotion behind the reboot.


Full article here.

[Bevbos]

It just sounds awful. I'm sorry. Those Tobey McGuire as Spidey pics were pitch-perfect. Ok, number 3 was a flop, and I could see room for improvement. But going all the way back to the origin, so soon? Why, why? Why not just move on? And no interaction at all with the Avengers, the FF, the X-Men, all of whom are established film properties at this point? I just fundamentally don't get it.

But, of course, I hope I'm proven wrong.

[David Walton]

I'm glad to hear they're going to amp up Spidey's wisecracks, and it seems as though Garfield is a real fan.

Great news, all around, I'd say.

[sephiroth61787]

I'm glad to hear they're going to amp up Spidey's wisecracks, and it seems as though Garfield is a real fan.

Great news, all around, I'd say.

Definitely. I have no doubt that this will be a great movie, even if it is a retelling of the origin.

[Pizawle]

Panel sounds like it was great fun.

So excited for the film. Amazing cast and personnel.

[thwhtGuardian]

It just sounds awful. I'm sorry. Those Tobey McGuire as Spidey pics were pitch-perfect. Ok, number 3 was a flop, and I could see room for improvement. But going all the way back to the origin, so soon? Why, why? Why not just move on? And no interaction at all with the Avengers, the FF, the X-Men, all of whom are established film properties at this point? I just fundamentally don't get it.

But, of course, I hope I'm proven wrong.

You were expecting Spidey to interact with the Avengers and the X-men? Sony doesn't own the rights to either of those properties so a shared universe with them was never in the cards.

[TheAltarOfMyEgo]

It just sounds awful. I'm sorry. Those Tobey McGuire as Spidey pics were pitch-perfect. Ok, number 3 was a flop, and I could see room for improvement. But going all the way back to the origin, so soon? Why, why? Why not just move on? And no interaction at all with the Avengers, the FF, the X-Men, all of whom are established film properties at this point? I just fundamentally don't get it.

But, of course, I hope I'm proven wrong.

You're kidding, right? Tobey Maguire was a terrible Spider-Man. You can't tell me you look at him and see a guy who cracks wise in the face of death. Not only that, but he cried every other scene and Kirsten Dunst was in now way a good MJ.

The best casting in that entire series was J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson and Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn. Rosemary Harris was good as Aunt May, but I've never thought it makes sense for her to be elderly that early on in Spidey's life (I've even felt this way about the comics, to be honest). I mean, his parents were supposed to be around May and Ben's age, so were they like 50 when they had him?

The worst part of those films, though, was the narrative. I could write a six film series that would be better than the previous three, would be truer to the source material, and would still maintain appeal to a mass audience.

[XPac]

You're kidding, right? Tobey Maguire was a terrible Spider-Man. You can't tell me you look at him and see a guy who cracks wise in the face of death. Not only that, but he cried every other scene and Kirsten Dunst was in now way a good MJ.

The best casting in that entire series was J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson and Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn. Rosemary Harris was good as Aunt May, but I've never thought it makes sense for her to be elderly that early on in Spidey's life (I've even felt this way about the comics, to be honest). I mean, his parents were supposed to be around May and Ben's age, so were they like 50 when they had him?

The worst part of those films, though, was the narrative. I could write a six film series that would be better than the previous three, would be truer to the source material, and would still maintain appeal to a mass audience.

I thought the first two Spider-Man movies were pretty good actually.

But they jammed a bit too much in the third.

[TheAltarOfMyEgo]

I thought the first two Spider-Man movies were pretty good actually.

But they jammed a bit too much in the third.

They were alright. I liked the second one a lot more than the first. In retrospect, I wish they had used Doc Ock in the first one and saved Green Goblin for the second one. That way, they could've set up a Gwen Stacy relationship in the first one and have her dropped off the bridge by Green Goblin in the second. It would've had that appropriate amount of darkness that Spider-Man sometimes flirts that has come to provide some of the character's more definitive traits.

[Radical_dreamer]

Those Tobey McGuire as Spidey pics were pitch-perfect.

They really, really weren't.

And no interaction at all with the Avengers, the FF, the X-Men, all of whom are established film properties at this point? I just fundamentally don't get it.

Boy...those are a lot of bad ideas in a really short paragraph.

Thank God we fans don't make movies is all I'll say. :D

[ankushm999]

Small question: has Mary Jane been confirmed ?