The Amazing Spider-Man This movie is in high school!!!

[Catman]

Then again, maybe it is easier knowing a 29 year old actor isn't going to get off on a make out scene the same way a 19-20 year old Josh Hutcherson type actor would.

It doesn't really matter. There's only gonna be one or two make-out scenes anyway. And they can leave those for last if it's gonna be a problem.

 

[chaseter]

He does look too old. Garfield does not. I think he could pass for a senior in high school as well.

And you think Garfield is going to look the same in 6 years when they start filming the third

 

[david icke]

Yes, there's early bloomers in HS, but doesn't that go against the Peter Parker persona? Isn't he supposed to be the weak geeky kid who gets picked on all the time? So, how are audiences supposed to believe that when he looks older and taller than everyone else? Atleast Tobey Maguire was short and had a dorky face.

Yeah, that is a very good point, that is a problem for the persona of PP.
I recall one guy at my school, who actually is a Garfield type, who was a very quiet type, but tall for his age, someone in the year above us tried picking on him, and he kicked their ass.

I suppose it would be more of a problem if it was an origin movie, when someone picked on him pre-powers, we could think, even unconciously, 'this guy is pathetic, he has the height and build, and shrinks back and allows himself to be bullied?! and this guy is the superhero?!!'
but if the movie is set *after* he gets the powers, and he shrinks away from the bullying, we will all just think, 'he doesn't want to fight them because he doesn't want them to find out he's spider-man'.

I know what you are talking about, but it may not be as big a problem as that. It depends how he carries himself as well, whether we believe he is a meek hs student.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Unless Garfield is playing that mentally challenged HS kid that had to stay back 3-4 years, I don't see it looking realistic by movies 2-3. They are again going to have to lapse at least a year or 6 months for the second one, possibly meaning college. We've seen plenty of 30 year olds play college kids, but again, this is exactly what they did last time. It shouldn't be like, "Time for a RE-DO people..."... You just spent over half a decade building this franchise, then plan on spending only 80 million on it, and then go out there and say "It will be a little closer to the source material" to get our 30 bucks again, and duplicate their success at a cheaper price.

 

[sweetre15]

^ Ugh,y'all do know that they can make him look short,right? ala Hugh Jackman as Wolverine

 

[FaT_tONle]

What does his height have to do with anything? I mean yeah guys grow until 21 but still, I've seen tall HS students that don't quite look 27. Very few of those guys, I'm talking NBA players. Look they can basically get away with it for one movie, but not beyond that. You look at Garfield's recent roles, and he's playing characters well older than that now itself.

 

[DACMAN]

And you think Garfield is going to look the same in 6 years when they start filming the third

Did I say that? And who said the third is going to take place in high school?

 

[Catman]

Yeah, but by the third film he's already gonna be too old to even play a college student. He's gonna be 30 when they shoot the sequel. So, he'll be 32-33 in the third film. That's why it's best to have the reboot set in college. In the first film, Peter can be 18 or 19, and then in his `20s for the two sequels.

 

[DACMAN]

He doesn't need to be in high school for it to be a good Spidey movie.

He doesn't need to be in college for it to be a good Spidey movie.

 

[DACMAN]

Yeah, but by the third film he's already gonna be too old to even play a college student. He's gonna be 30 when they shoot the sequel. So, he'll be 32-33 in the third film. That's why it's best to have the reboot set in college. In the first film, Peter can be 18 or 19, and then in his `20s for the two sequels.

Maguire was over 30 when they filmed Spider-Man 3. Why can't they do 18 for the first film while in high school, and 20 something for 2 and 3?

 

[Catman]

Maguire was over 30 when they filmed Spider-Man 3.

And the character was in his `20s.

Why can't they do 18 for the first film while in high school, and 20 something for 2 and 3?

It depends on the direction of the story. Is college gonna be explored as much as high school? If so, what's the timeline in the trilogy. With Sam Raimi, school wasn't that big of a deal. He was more interested in Peter as a working man. That pizza delivery scene in part 2 got more screentime than Peter's little chat with Dr. Connors at the college campus. So, age wasn't really a factor. In the reboot, I'm assuming, they're gonna make a big deal about school and school life, so age starts becoming more of an issue...especially when they cast an actor who is only gonna do one Spidey movie in his `20s. Atleast Tobey did two.

 

[chaseter]

Did I say that? And who said the third is going to take place in high school?

It will likely take place at the beginning stages of college if this entire first film is in High School like you want it to be.

Tobey looked old during SM3 and the same thing is going to happen to Garfield because 6 years is a long time and 9 years if they do a fourth film is even longer. Do you want to see old Spider-Man? Garfield will be 3 years from 40 when they shoot the thing.

Either make these come out every 2 years, which I don't want because that hurts quality, shoot 2 and 3 back to back if this is a success, or stop hiring 30 year olds to play teenagers.

I have faith in Garfield, I don't have faith in his ability to stop the aging process.

Maguire was over 30 when they filmed Spider-Man 3. Why can't they do 18 for the first film while in high school, and 20 something for 2 and 3?

And you bashed him for looking old in SM3...because he did look a lot older. The same thing is going to happen to Garfield.

I want these films to go on to do 5 or 6 movies, not 3 and then recast and start over again. That is stupid. But with Garfield being nearly 30, they aren't going to be able to do 6 films with him as he would be nearly 45 or 46 when filming the 6th movie if they do a 3 year gap in between films and that isn't going to happen.

 

[Catman]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but doesn't SONY already have scripts written for the trilogy? So, I think that they will release a movie once every two years.

 

[DACMAN]

I don't think they do. Didn't they just finish this script? They threw out the script for Spider-Man 4 only a year ago.

I hope you're right though. I'd love to get a Spider-Man movie every two years.

 

[©KAW]

Who cares, the age of an actor has never stopped anyone from seeing a film, the norm (non-geeks) won't even mention it? I just hope he's a better Peter Parker/Spider-Man than the dreadful portrayal from Tobey.

 

[DACMAN]

Agreed.

 

[sweetre15]

Hopefully Garfield can pull a Jeremy Renner and look young as long as he wants to,lol

 

[storyteller]

The reason they are rebooting is simply that the cast was getting pretty damn expensive. They were spending over 100 million just to pay the actors.

 

[Catman]

They were spending over 100 million just to pay the actors.

I don't think it was THAT much.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

didn't another report/article state that the film would take place in college?

either way, if the first film takes place senior year of high school then it's fine i think. but the sequels should definately take place in college because no way Garfield can pull off the high school look in sequels

 

[Catman]

Originally it was said that the film would take place in HS and that's why actors like Logan Lerman and Josh Hutcherson were being auditioned. But with the casting of Andrew Garfield that has been put into question. And, to my knowledge, SONY hasn't said anything since the original press release back in January about the school setting.

 

[DACMAN]

Either make these come out every 2 years, which I don't want because that hurts quality,...

There was only a two year gap between Spider-Man 1 and 2.

 

[X Knight]

I think setting this franchise in College would be the best way to set it apart from the last Spidey franchise.

If Peter starts out as a senior in HS, then heads off to college in the sequels. Well....that's pretty much what we got with Raimi's films. So, ppl would feel they are just doint the same thing all over.

If they were to focus more on HS like the Ultimate comics ( which seemed to be the original premise ), then that's going to be hard given Garfield's age.

So, the most appropriate solution would be just to move the whole thing to college right off the bat.......

 

[david icke]

There was only a two year gap between Spider-Man 1 and 2.

See, they knew that was rushed, they started work on the Spidey/Ock train battle before they even had a finished script.
and there are only two major Spider-man action scenes, at the bank and on the train, the 'powerless' section was a boon to them there I think, they didn't have to worry about working on a major CG spider-man sequence in the middle of the movie, instead going for the Peter Parker in the burning building scene, which, let's face it was not a patch on the other two Spider-man action scenes.
edit: ok, there is the scene with Ock at the end as well, but, there is not that much spider-man action going on there.

edit: SM2 was a quality movie, but it lacked Spider-man action scenes, and partly that was due to the plot, but they also knew they were rushed for those kind of scenes, so started working on the train scene b4 they even knew how they were going to get there in the script.

edit: 3 yrs between SM2 and 3, and look at how much spidey we got in that movie compared to 2, there were 6 major action scenes involving Spider-man in SM3.

 

[DACMAN]

Along with a much bigger budget. And each action scene lasted about 20 seconds with the exception of the last battle.