Sony Casts Jamie Bell As New Spider-Man | Techland

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Bleeding Cool is reporting that English actor Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) has been chosen as the new Peter Parker in Sony’s upcoming reboot of the franchise, directed by Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer).

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The casting, still unconfirmed, comes just months after plans for a Spider-Man 4 film with director Sam Raimi and star Toby Maguire crumbled, and both made their exits. Rather than let the superhero dust settle, Sony began work on a new reboot with a younger Peter Parker. That’s right, Spidey’s going back to high school.

Bell, who will also star in the upcoming CGI adaptation of the comic Tintin, beat out rumored competition Zac Efron (High School Musical) and Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson) for his chance as web-slinging Spider-Man, though if this film will manage to be any good is just something we can’t gauge.

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gminnj

Won’t matter to me who they cast. Wrong director, wrong vision for my demo.

They will be making this for 13-24 year olds, and maybe that’s the right move, but not my thing.
richardsrussell

What you guys should do is get artwork of the original, hypergeeky Peter Parker compared to the relatively more suave version of today and put them next to pictures of Tobey Maguire and Jamie Bell.

There’s some speculation among evolutionary biologists that humanity is currently selecting for physical attractiveness, and that sure seems to be the trend in the movies (tho they have yet to come up with a hypothesis that explains Sarah Jessica Parker).
gminnj

I’d be fine with the geeky Parker, and I think that’s what Tobey went for at the start of the first one.

Here’s what I really want to say: I want a Spider-Man movie aimed at adults, not kids.

Is that so wrong? I felt like Batman was for adults. I felt like Iron Man was for adults. I feel like this is going to be for 16 year olds with tight pants and an indie soundtrack.

Considering this won’t come out for a year or two, that seems SO 2008. And I’m feeling SO old and bored by it already.