Is One Of These Young Actors Sony’s New Spider-Man?

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Is One Of These Young Actors Sony’s New Spider-Man?  

From left: Jamie Bell, Frank Dillane, Alden Ehrenreich, Andrew Garfield and Josh Hutcherson

With Marc Webb on board as director and Alvin Sargent rewriting the script, the big question hanging over Sony’s reboot of the Spider-Man franchise is who will play Peter Parker.

Heat Vision reports that Webb, who directed last year’s (500) Days of Summer, has been meeting quietly with actors over the past several months. Although he and the studio apparently are still on the lookout, in the past week or two Webb has narrowed his list of candidates to include:

• Jamie Bell, the 24-year-old star of Billy Elliot and the upcoming The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
• Frank Dillane, 19, who played young Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Alden Ehrenreich, the 20-year-old newcomer who appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro
• Andrew Garfield, 27, who appeared in the BBC series Sugar Rush and the Red Riding TV movie trilogy
• Josh Hutcherson, the 17-year-old co-star of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant and the upcoming Red Dawn remake

The studio wants to begin production by the end of the year for a July 3, 2012, release.

  • http://occasionalcomics.com caanan

    Boy if that’s the shortlist, it’s gotta be Josh Hutcherson. I think he’d be a pretty good Pete.

  • http://occasionalcomics.com caanan

    Boy if that's the shortlist, it's gotta be Josh Hutcherson. I think he'd be a pretty good Pete.

  • http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com Bill Reed

    Of these, I pick Billy Elliot.

  • demoncat

    only heard of the first two on the list. plus the one guy seems to be taking hair lessons from carrot top. and Sony is trying to get production going since they know they do not have it going rights back to DisMarvel. and losing the spider man films would not be good for Sony profit wise

  • LordGanja

    This has all the makings of an abortion of a film.
    The director has zero experience in actions films and the one hit he does have was so-so.
    Taking an 'artistic' director for an action film is very risky – look at the last bond film. The action scenes were confused and totally under-whelming.
    Demoncat you're absolutely right – studios are desperately trying to hang onto their Marvel properties to stop auto-reversion back to Marvel/Disney. Witness the attempted re-boots of Fantastic Four & Daredevil at Fox. 2 properties which were very poorly adapted to the screen and totally udner-sold their comic appeal.
    I think Marvel/Disney will take the long approach – they have enough on their film-slate for the next 3-5years and won't be in a rush to get the properties back to re-launch them. They will let these other studios flounder and waste their money on unneccessary reboots – don't forget how Warner Bros. killed the first Batman franchise but they had the luxory to wait (they own DC – Batman wasn't going anywhere) and relaunch.

  • stealthwise

    They're all too old and none of them look like Spider-Man.

  • http://www.spinoffonline.com Kevin Melrose

    Too old? Two of them are teenagers. Tobey Maguire was, what, 26 or 27 when he made the first Spider-Man.

  • Grapeweasel

    Please keep looking…..

  • BeastieRunner

    Dillane kinda of looks like Ultimate Peter Parker.