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Why not of keeping Garfield instead of change?

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I liked the ones he was Peter Parker. Why change Spiderman so many time?
 
I liked the ones he was Peter Parker. Why change Spiderman so many time?

Because cinematic Marvel hadn't before done a teenage superhero but wanted to have a teenage superhero and Spider-Man gave them the opportunity to have that.
 
We see him as teen already when Tobey first movie. Then again first movie of Garfield. ??? Now he should be college or more
 
Keeping Garfield would have implied that his two movies were canon to MCU. Quality of those movies aside, I don't think that Feige wants to include anything in MCU that wasn't created for MCU.
 
Marvel Studios wanted to establish their own version of Spider-Man one that wasn't encumbered by anything that came before.

Also, the Amazing Spider-Man movies were not well liked. It was better to start over from scratch instead of driving with a totaled car.

Garfield was also too old to be playing teenaged high school Spider-Man either.
 
Just like Vile said........Marvel wanted to establish their own version to include in the MCU. No baggage of previous films. Would have been an awful idea to continue it.

And Garfield's Peter was quite controversial amongst the fan community. ASM2 did the character no favors.
 
It wasn't just Marvel either. Sony didn't make a deal with Marvel to try and save the franchise after the ASM films were poorly received only to have them use elements from those same ASM films. If Sony wanted to do another Garfield film, they never would have made the deal.

Both studios were looking for a clean reboot from those.
 
The story goes that Garfield was out even before the Marvel deal took place. He supposedly offended the main dude in charge at Sony and was given the boot right before they were going to announce ASM 3. No idea if that's true but it seems even Sony wasn't committed to Garfield.
 
Even if that didn't happen, do you guys really think Garfield would've been brought back? I don't think he would've. It was clear that Marvel wanted to start over and have a younger teenaged Spider-Man still in high school. Garfield's character graduates at the beginning of the second movie.
 
The story goes that Garfield was out even before the Marvel deal took place. He supposedly offended the main dude in charge at Sony and was given the boot right before they were going to announce ASM 3. No idea if that's true but it seems even Sony wasn't committed to Garfield.

Nor was Garfield particularly committed to Sony/Spidey after TASM2's release. His team was sending Sony emails asking for his potential role in the Sinister Six movie to count as the last on his contract, so that he didn't have to do TASM3.
 
I'm happy with Garfield coming back as long as they get Bill Murray to do the voice again
 
We see him as teen already when Tobey first movie. Then again first movie of Garfield. ??? Now he should be college or more

Neither were very convincing as teenagers, and it's the teenager dynamic that really sets Spider-Man apart from everyone else in the MCU, so it makes sense for them to want that.

It was in fact quite funny in SM2 when Spidey stops the train, and passes out so people see his face and go "he's just a kid", when it's clearly a much older person than that.
 

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