Is One Of These Young Women Spider-Man’s Love Interest?

 

Lily Collins, Ophelia Lovibond, Teresa Palmer, Imogen Poots and Emma Roberts

Director Marc Webb today began meeting with actresses to star opposite Andrew Garfield in the upcoming reboot of Columbia Pictures’ Spider-Man franchise. However, Heat Vision reports, that Peter Parker’s love interest won’t be Mary Jane Watson.

According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Borys Kit, the contenders for the role — whether that’s Gwen Stacy, Felicia Hardy or a new character — include:

• Lily Collins, 21, who appeared in 2009′s The Blind Side and will next be seen in Priest
• Ophelia Lovibond, the 24-year-old co-star of Nowhere Boy
• Imogen Poots, 21, who appeared in 28 Weeks Later and co-stars in the Fright Night remake
• Teresa Palmer, 24, who was the love interest in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and is now shooting I Am Number Four
• Emma Roberts, the 19-year-old co-star of Hotel For Dogs who reportedly has flown in twice from the set of Scream 4 to read for Webb

Spider-Man is set to begin filming in December for a planned July 3, 2012, release. The reboot, which will take Peter Parker back to high school, is expected to draw inspiration from Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley’s Ultimate Spider-Man, rather than the Stan Lee and Steve Ditko comics of the 1960s.