It’s been a long, long road of Spider-Man news. The reboot-Marc Webb-3D news happened so damn fast that I thought we’d have an entire roster and a promotional still by now. But no! Sony is taking their time with this. That’s good. It means they care.
Today, THR’s Heat Vision wrangled two bits of casting news out of the pre-production. Who will be the aunt and uncle who raise Peter Parker into a good and upstanding hero? None other than Martin Sheen and Sally Field.
Sheen will play the doomed Uncle Ben, whose death rocks boyish Parker’s world, and makes him eager to don a stretchy outfit and fight crime. Sheen is fatherly and venerable, so he’s a great pick. It’s just sad he won’t last more than a movie. (I imagine he’ll get a flashback or two as this wears on. Or not! He’s going to age faster than these will film.
Field is in talks (not yet confirmed, but close) to play Aunt May. That’s quite a change from the adorably white-haired lady she is in the comics. Is Aunt May going to be a cute and sassy brunette, or is Field going to don white-hair and a Boniva-deprived stoop? THR seems to think the former, but we’ll see.
It’s good to see this reboot is going to boast a cast as impressive (if not more so) than Sam Raimi’s original. I wasn’t in favor of a reboot — and I still can’t believe we get another goddamn origin story — but at least it won’t be sloppy.
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Still boycotting this worthless movie…..and I hate both those casting choices. Martin Sheen has been great in many roles….but would not be right at all for Uncle Ben. And Sally Field? HORRIBLE choice…will she be all drama-queening it up like on that horrific "Brothers and Sisters?" Oh Rosemary Harris where are you?! Can Sam Raimi just make Spiderman 4 at some other studio, and we'll see what movie turns out better?
I still can't get over the fact that they're remake a massively popular movie that is only 8 years old. One in which the original cast and crew could still comfortably pump out another entry in the franchise.
The sam raimi films were massively over rated pieces of shit and by the 3rd one (under rated BTW) the actors just looked like they wanted to be some where else. Tobey mcguire was a decent peter parker but a totally shit spiderman.
Agreed–tired of reboots and origin stories. We just saw this in 2002. Of course, to the tween crowd this film is directed at, that was, like, eons ago.
the original spiderman movies are all okay at best. what is there to love in them? maybe its b/c peter parker is such an uninteresting character. i have no problem with this being rebooted (if for no other reason than it means sam raimi can go back to making interesting movies)
They're not doing the origin again. There'll be a couple of flashbacks to it, as well as to some scenes with a ten year old Peter Parker. That said, how can they cast anyone else as Aunt May when Frances Sternhagen isn't dead yet?
TOO FAMOUS! All you're gonna be thinking is "hey it's Martin Sheen and the yogurt lady!!!"
The Emma Stone casting baffles me. Why cast a hot redhead as Gwen Stacy? Why was Kirsten Dunst, a plain blonde, cast as Mary Jane? I mean are they getting this stuff so drastically wrong on purpose, or what?
So how many times is Spidey going to take his mask off this time?
Comment #8 (Posted by Gwai Lo) The Emma Stone casting baffles me. Why cast a hot redhead as Gwen Stacy? Why was Kirsten Dunst, a plain blonde, cast as Mary Jane? I mean are they getting this stuff so drastically wrong on purpose, or what?
Emma Stone dyes her hair. She's really a blonde.
More than anything else I've heard thus far (and I haven't been really closely watching), this casting news makes me think they're going to be basing this in large part on the Ultimate Spider-Man comic. Mayhap it's just because the only way I can wrap my brain around the still young looking Sally Field playing what will most likely be a more vibrant Aunt May. If so, I can't wait to see Sheen as an aging sorta-hippie like Ben was portrayed in the funny books.
Is this going to be the ponytailed Ultimate Uncle Ben? I hate that they're rebooting, hate that they're apparently doing the origin again (I'm hoping Sheen will rather be featured in poignant flashbacks or heart-rending dream sequences), but I do think Bendis' Spider-Man is worth bringing to the screen. If that's what they're doing, then this won't be all that traumatic. If they're ignoring Bendis' influence, then, fuck it. At least the guy's planning on writing the comic until Marvel stops taking his calls.
The news about Spider-Man movies just keeps sucking more and more all the time. More Peter Parker as a high schooler, Andrew Garfield as Parker, Martin Sheen and Sally Field as Uncle Ben Aunt Mae…and me as skipping this version. The only way I would be ok with them staring over is if they didn't do exactly what they are doing…that is aiming for the Twilight teen audience rather than the folks who would actually watch this.
Yes, Smutshow Bob, because when I think of "the Twilight teen audience," the things I think of are the stars of The Social Network/Never Let Me Go, Superbad/Zombieland, and The West Wing. Clearly.
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