The Amazing Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield has shared where he sees his career and fan interactions going for the next fifty years following his fan-favourite and deeply cherished role as Marvel’s signature character Spider-Man, real name Peter Parker, in Sony’s early-2010s rendition of the classic comic book character.
Garfield appeared as the friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man in 2012 in The Amazing Spider-Man by writer James Vanderbilt and director Marc Webb, as part of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s pick up of the comic books following Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 being cancelled. Also starring Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field, and was moderately positively reviewed. The film grossed $758.7 million at the box office from a $200-230 million budget, and so was followed by a sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, in 2014.
Following a 2015 deal between Sony and the Marvel Cinematic Universe to share the character’s rights, any precise The Amazing Spider-Man sequels were cancelled to allow the MCU’s Spider-Man take (with star Tom Holland) to take centre stage. Garfield’s Spider-Man soon returned for 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, thanks to the introduction of the multiverse and such a plot reveal was kept tightly under wraps until the film’s release.
While promoting his latest film, The Magic Faraway Tree, to Heart Radio, the actor shared his thoughts on fans asking him to wear the red mask once more. “I think it’s a question that’s probably going to follow me for the rest of my life, ‘Are you secretly in the new Spider-Man film?’…Until I’m 90 years old, they’re going to be asking me, ‘Are you in the new Spider-Man Volume 512?’”, Garfield stated.
“I’ll be like, ‘I’m literally weeing into a colostomy bag, and I don’t have any’…But also, people can ask me whatever they want; my life is very blessed.”
Way back in 2010, when his casting was first announced, Garfield shared with Capital FM (as reported in Superherohype) the emotional process of donning the iconic superhero costume.
“I have to kind of not look at my face because it doesn’t make sense to me. I have to imagine that it’s a much better actor’s face in that suit… I won’t lie,” the actor shared. “I shed a tear when I first wore the spandex. I didn’t think that the spandex would make me so emotional, but it did.”
In The Magic Faraway Tree, Garfield plays the role of Tim Thompson in Ben Gregor’s adaptation of Enid Blyton’s fantasy children’s book series of the same name. Meanwhile, the latest Spider-Man release is set to be the MCU’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the fourth MCU Spider-Man standalone film and the overall seventh appearance of the character in the MCU.
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