No way Simmons will be back. And for everyone saying it worked with Casino Royale, stop. It worked with Bond because the Bond movies have always been a revolving door with people replacing characters. There has been 6 people to play James Bond. There's been 1, count it 1, Spider-man, and one Spider-man franchise. It would be confusing as hell to have JK Simmons start over and meet Parker again, etc. Even more that he would look the same, act the same, when it will be a different franchise. It's just a stupid thought and boggles my mind that anyone would think they "should" keep him, and even more that people think they will. And to the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality, that logic shouldn't even be uttered around this bull ***** "reboot" nonsense. The franchise wasn't broke and certainly won't be fixed by this disaster of an idea, but that's another discussion entirely.
Yeah, what Infinity said, and also.... he does not have to act the exact same way, he could play a more serious, realistic JJJ, easily, if given the right script. About the only deadly serious moment he had in the 3 Raimi's was his 'You're Fired!' moment when he got rid of Brock.
JKS is an outstanding actor, if all you think he is capable of is comedy scenes you should really check otu some of his other work in HBO's Oz.
I would like to see him return, and do more serious scenes.
I mean, even little things, like, the first scene with him in SM2 kind of bugs me, it's not very realistic at all, it's cartoony and simplistic, even though with a little tiny tweak it could've been, that's why it bugs me.
Pete gives him a very generic spider-man photo of spidey swinging through the city, and JJ acts as if this is big news and snaps the pic up, whil;e giving a very generic headline he'll attach to it of 'Masked Menace terrorizes City'. As if he hasn't had many photos like that before, or hit out with headlines like that before.
If we're getting a more 'realistic' movie, I'd like to see how Jameson twists certain situations against Spider-man, like, Pete comes in with a set of photos of SM fighting thugs in a warehouse, Jameson goes through all the photos and picks out the one photo that shows Spidey damaging property or something.
Just something that shows how the news can be manipulated by the press, doesn't have to be overcomplicated.
