Dunst Says Spider-Man Reboot Has ‘A Lot To Live Up To’

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 at 9:00am
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Dunst Says <i>Spider-Man</i> Reboot Has ‘A Lot To Live Up To’  

Kirsten Dunst is done with Spider-Man, but she’s still slinging webs in the franchise’s general direction. The Los Angeles Times interviewed the former Mary Jane Watson recently, asking her about her thoughts on the forthcoming reboot starring Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy — and according to Dunst, these actors should be a little bit nervous.

“They have a lot to live up to,” she surmised. “I do really like Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield. I know that Emma’s playing Gwen Stacy, but I wonder what story they’re gonna tell, because it wasn’t that long ago — we’re not, like, old people. That’s why I’d be nervous. They’re gonna tell the story, I guess, from the beginning again — but in a different way. But it wasn’t that long ago that we told that story. So the pressure’s on again a little bit in that way. Yeah, they’re in a funny position. But, hey, I’m sure they’re gonna work it out.”

As for her own days in the Spider-Man series, Dunst said that she’s disappointed over the cancellation of Sam Raimi’s fourth film, only in the sense that she and her fellow cast and crew members were unable to properly mourn the end of their era.

“I mean, everyone was coming back, and they were casting a villain,” said Dunst. “I knew it wasn’t ready to go, but I knew they were working on it. And they decided not to, so — you know what, it was only sad because we didn’t know the last one was going to be our last. So we didn’t have that extra little ‘This is the last time, guys.’ We didn’t get to have that grieving. It was a little like, ‘Oh, we’re not doing it, bummer.’”

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  • Joemomma

    Maybe if the last film wasn’t so vapid and boring, with less dancing scenes and maybe a Mary Jane that didn’t seem so hapless and victimized.

  • InterwebHero

    Well, possibly, but the point remains that this reboot will be coming only 5 years after the last and most financially successful movie in an extremely financially successful and generally well-reviewed series about the same character.
    Spider-Man 3 was no Batman and Robin, and even that took 8 years and a seismic tonal shift. Spider-Man needs something similar but I don’t see how.

  • Jasonmelendez1

    Third one aside, we still got two solid Spider-Man movies out of Raimi & co.

  • Braunrodman

    All those Spider-man movies were trash, if you like them as a spider-man movie and not just a dumb summer blockbuster than youre a posser. Dunst is an idiot

  • villainous

    The first two films weren’t trash and we’re not possers for liking them.

  • weezybaby

    I have to agree. I’ll never forget seeing the 1st trailer and thinking how horrible the CGI looked and how everyone at my crappy job at the time thought I was insane (i.e. to be fair those same idiots thought Tomb Raider was a good movie). While I thought the second Spiderman was a superior film truly–I have to admit that the idea that yet again–Hollywood found the need to constantly remind us that the hero was the actor by having his masked removed for truly climactic moments–just killed my belief in the franchise. The third was horse shit and only made money cuz people are idiots.

    But despite all of that–let’s call out one thing–Kirsten Dunst is beyond ugly–one of those chicks that if she wasn’t an actress would be the easy chick working at Taco Bell. This movie is an immediate step-up.

  • Franktiger8

    All three films were works of genius, if you think otherwise, you have no credibility as a Spider-Man or comic book fan. Raimi’s films were virtuoso, and the performances by the actors were brilliant, to think otherwise is idiotic, don’t watch superhero films please, cus you don’t know what you’re talking about if you say the films weren’t great.

    Tragic a fourth film was cancelled, hope this new one bombs, because it was just a poor poor decision to sack the fourth film.

  • comic relief

    I agree with Kristin the reboot has a lot to live up to. Also the new crew may need to prove that the old cast wasn’t dumped because FOX just got tired of them. She is correct that retelling much of the same material is redundant.

  • Fjmilos

    So … I guess that makes you an idiot.

  • Someone who knows better

    No, you people are stupid for supporting the direction of Ultimate Spider-Man. Spider-Man doesnt need a reboot. It needed better screen writers. Ultimate Spider-Man is just another piece of trash since it will be exploited with the gimmick of 3D. Hollywood thinks people are suckers for the 3D cameras, calling it an unforgetable experience. That is completely BS. By taking this approch Hollywood is relying on special effects to make a movie. The reboot isnt going to be great because of acting. In fact, its pretty much the take on the Human cast of the Transformers 2, (Megan Fox can’t act her character for crap) and Andrew Garifeld doesnt say Spider-Man, and a college Spider-Man to most people. Whats even more ridiculous is that now Spidey isnt in highschool but in his first year of college, which is back to square one. We dont need another origin story. What we need is another sequel even with a different cast. This 2012 “blockbuster” is obviously gonna suck.

  • JMC

    I didn’t mind the Spidey films at the time – but they don’t hold up to repeated viewings. The dialogue is forced and corny to a sickeningly sweet level. The Aunt May, Uncle Ben speeches, the Goblin rooftop speech, even Doc Ock with his “true love” speech – UGH, the pathetic “patriotic New Yawkers – you go after Spider-Man, you go after all of us!” speech, the “we’ll keep your secret Spidey” unmasked scene in the train, not to mention the whole awkward “my crotch is itchy” lift scene. The three films are full of these needlessly overblown and corny scenes that read like an old comic from the seventies, overladen with exposition.
    Doc Ock and Sandman were good villains, but Venom and the Goblin (in costume) were horrendous! The final fight sequence in the first movie, and the fight scenes in the second still hold up quite well though.
    But to hold these films up as a pinnacle of comic-movie adaptations is delusional.

 

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