The new Spider-Man has been announced, and it’s Andrew Garfield. Born in the US, raised in Britain.
I have seen him in Boy A, and he’s a damn fine actor. Also, he has the skinny, geeky look the part requires.
Can he do an American accent? I have my doubts. I saw a brief clip of him attempting one, and it was so-so at best. A little difficult to imagine him pulling off the quintessential New Yorker Peter Parker, but we’ll see I guess.
Thoughts?
I won’t pass judgment on him until I see the movie. I remember nobody thought Toby would do a good job at first.
I do think the whole movie is unnecessary though. The remake/reboot cycle is getting so short that we’re going to start having two versions of the same movie released on the same day.
Same here; the last Spiderman movie is still fresh in my mind and perhaps in general consciousness too.
That’s what accent coaches are for. A Cuban actor played Goya (from Saragossa) in a recent Trueba movie: there is only one line in the whole movie where he slips, and people blame Trueba, not the actor, for getting him a coach that taught him “Castillian” instead of “Saragossan”.
Viggo Mortensen’s Spanish accent used to be Rio de la Plata (Argentinian): in Alatriste, his voice sounds strange in Spanish because we’re used to hearing him dubbed by people with normal voices (as opposed to his “I just ate some broken glass” sound), but the time he spent living in Leon to pick up the accent paid off. You tell anybody who doesn’t know the guy’s called Mortensen that his name is José Pérez and he’s from Astorga, they’d believe you.
I expect this has more to do with Marvel wanting to create a shared universe for their films in the same way as they have done for their comics.
the imaginarium guy? eh… i guess…
Another 3D movie? The novelty has worn off.
He’s got a more “peter-parkery” hair than Tobey I gotta say. 
Seriously though, I think he’s a good choice. Too bad the movie is still two years away.
I hope they have more of the “snarky monologues while hanging over the city by a thread” thing. Did Tobey ever do that-I don’t think so.
I don’t care for him based on the photo in the article linked in the OP but will withhold judgment until I see the movie.
Looks a bit like Anthony Perkins from certain angles. Like this one.
They’re working on that with the movies produced by Marvel themselves (and it was probably the reason for the Hulk semi-reboot), but Sony Pictures currently still have the movie rights to Spider-Man, so there won’t be any cross-overs in that direction.
Marvel would probably prefer it if Sony stopped making Spider-Man movies, so they could get the rights back and make their own.
I still don’t. Okay, it probably isn’t his fault, but I felt his character had too much “Peter Parker is Life’s Bitch” and not enough “Spider-Man is Awesome”.
I disagree. Web-slinging and the way Spider-Man fights are practically made for 3D.