Its Official! Andrew Garfield Is The New Spider-Man

[drwynn ●]

so are you saying you thought the spider-man movies were trash?
it's not a reboot tho.

Yeah...it's very unclear up until now whether or not it's indeed going to be a reboot. Sony claims they were going younger in casting so that they could reboot it and that was the reason they let Raimi and Maguire go...but whispers in LA say Sony really just wanted to dump the cast and crew because the success of the previous films allowed Maguire, Raimi, Dunst, et al to ask for tons of cash. Ergo, Sony wanted a new director and actor that they could hire "on the cheap".

But now everyone is crying foul because in all honesty, Garfield doesn't really look more than perhaps one or two years younger than Maguire at this point...and many people think that means Sony merely wanted to recast and recrew so they could save money and that the decision had NOTHING to do with telling a "new" version of the story.

Time will tell...