Five new Spider-Man candidates!
Wed, May 26, 2010 
May I have your attention please. Will the real Peter Parker please stand up, I repeat, will the real Peter Parker please stand up. We're gonna have a problem here...
With the cancellation of Spider-Man 4 earlier this year came the news that Sony was rebooting the franchise and had hired Marc Webb to direct. The real question on everyone's mind though, has been who will play Spider-Man this time around. We've heard names such as the Percy Jackson star Logan Lerman, to Zac Efron, but now THR has what they're calling the five most likely candidates to play teenage Peter Parker.
THR has the following five candidates as the most likely to play Spider-Man:
-- Jamie Bell: The 24-year-old English actor, repped by WME and Artists Independent Management, who made his film debut playing the title character in “Billy Elliot,” has been doing the proper British actor thing in period movies such as “Nicholas Nickleby” and “Jane Eyre” (he’s also appeared in Hollywood movies such as Peter Jackson’s “King Kong” and Ed Zwick’s “Defiance”). More important, he’s already stepped into the comics world by portraying Tintin in Jackson and Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin” movie, which won’t hit screens until December 2011.
-- Alden Ehrenreich: The Los Angeles-born 20-year-old has a juicy backstory, having been “discovered” by Spielberg, who saw a comedy video starring Ehrenreich at a bat mitzvah of his daughter’s friend. A couple of TV appearances followed, but the actor’s next big leap came when he was cast by Francis Ford Coppola in 2009’s “Tetro.” He is repped by WME.
-- Frank Dillane: The 19-year-old Brit’s main credit is last year’s “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” where he played a young Tom Riddle. Is a minor role in a “Potter” film a good springboard for a mega-franchise? It worked for Robert Pattinson.
-- Andrew Garfield: The L.A.-born actor had a short stint on a BBC TV series called “Sugar Rush” but gained notices for playing a young reporter in a gritty British TV movie trilogy titled “Red Riding.” The 27-year-old appeared in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” and will be seen in David Fincher’s movie about Facebook, “The Social Network.” He is repped by CAA and the Collective.
-- Josh Hutcherson: The youngest actor of the bunch -- he turns 18 this year -- is also the one with the most experience. The past six years alone have seen the Kentucky-born kid rack up credits with key roles in Jon Favreau’s “Zathura,” drama “Bridge to Terabithia” and the upcoming “Red Dawn” remake. He appears in the Sundance hit “The Kids Are All Right,” which insider buzz suggests could be an Oscar contender, and starred with Brendan Fraser in “Journey to the Center of the Earth.”
My guess is Hutcherson nabs the part. He's the best suited for the part and he has the adavntage of actually being able to act. The only thing making me think He's not the guy could be his recurring role in Warner Bros Journey to center of the Earth sequel due out next year.
Reader Comments (2)
I like Hutcherson for this too, I think we'll likely know by comic con at the latest
There should be a ton of crazy news out of comic con this year, a batman title, spiderman casting, maybe something from green lantern and/or superman too...fuck I wish I could go