Rumor: Marvel’s Spider-man Will Star A New Lead

<p>You may have heard a number of rumors regarding Spider-man earlier this week&comma; but the biggest one thus far asks just who might be playing the wall-crawler next time around&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the string of leaks allegedly obtained by hackers throughout the past few days from the inner workings of Sony Pictures&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s been recently revealed that both it and the Disney-owned Marvel Studios have fervently discussed bringing Spider-man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a significant role&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two studios were purportedly close to sealing a deal of some sorts – and might be still&comma; but rumor has it that pressure from the higher ups at Sony Pictures’ parent company could mean that a renewed discussion of the cross-over might very well take <em>Amazing Spider-Man<&sol;em> star Andrew Garfield out of the equation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Latino Review claims that should Marvel buy the rights to the blockbuster superhero&&num;8217&semi;s film franchise&comma; it would not be inclined to grant creative control of Spider-Man to Sony&comma; much less honor the contracts with Sony&&num;8217&semi;s Spider-Stars&period; This would include Andrew Garfield and Sally Field&comma; who remain the sole cast members of director Marc Webb&&num;8217&semi;s reboot to be contracted for two more movies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;IF the Marvel&sol;Sony deal were to go forward&comma;” says LR&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Andrew Garfield would no longer be Peter Parker and any baggage from existing films&comma; &lbrack;directors Sam&rsqb; Raimi or &lbrack;Marc&rsqb; Webb&comma; would be non-canonical&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The site adds that the rumored Aunt May solo film and Female Character Spider-Man team-up movie were concepts that Marvel Studios &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;severely disliked&period;” By all accounts&comma; Marvel&&num;8217&semi;s specific vision for a Spider-man movie would &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;focus on the difficulties of being a teenager and a superhero with a romance side-story&comma;&&num;8221&semi; much like director Sam Rami&&num;8217&semi;s original Spider-man trilogy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Additionally&comma; these sources say that Spider-Man would make his debut in the Marvel&&num;8217&semi;s upcoming <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;robert-downey-jr-joins-captain-america-3-civil-war&sol;">Captain America&colon; Civil War<&sol;a> <&sol;em>&lpar;an item that Sony and Marvel had discussed prior to their initial talks breaking down&comma; could still happen and would potentially see Spider-man fulfill a similar role in the superhero conflict as he did in the classic comic book story-arc of the same name&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s unknown whether a stuntman in a Spider-man costume would suffice for a number of action scenes&comma; or if a new actor would be required to play the character&&num;8217&semi;s Peter Parker persona as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We liked <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;swinging-high-swinging-low-amazing-spider-man-2-review-2&sol;">The Amazing Spider-man 2<&sol;a> more than most&comma; or at least <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;average-spider-man-the-amazing-spider-man-2&sol;">more than its game<&sol;a>&comma; but we want to hear your thoughts on the matter&period; What would you think of a new Spider-man gracing the silver screen alongside Ironman and Captain America&quest; Who would you like to see don the mask&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;ll keep you posted on the ongoing Spider-man debacle as it develops&period; Stay tuned to that and more right here at <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com">BagoGames<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2014&sol;12&sol;12&sol;if-marvel-gets-spider-man-it-wont-be-the-andrew-garfield-kind">IGN<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;latino-review&period;com&sol;news&sol;marvel-wants-a-fresh-start-with-spider-man-without-andrew-garfield">The Latino Review<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;