Wednesday, June 19, 2013

MJ Excised From "The Amazing Spider-Man 2"

Shailene Woodley may have won the role of Mary Jane Watson, the perennial red-headed love interest of Pater Parker in the Spidey comics... Now we learn that her 3 day long performance has been cut from director Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The character was originally planned to make a small appearance in the film which would help set in motion events in the third installment,


Chatting with EW about her other upcoming film "Divergent," Woodley says: "Of course I’m bummed. But I am a firm believer in everything happening for a specific reason…Based on the proposed plot, I completely understand the need for holding off on introducing [Mary Jane] until the next film"

Webb made the move out of the need to stramline the story which already has a lot of plot to cover

THR suggests that MJ may even be recast

The role was previously played by Kirsten Dunst in director Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy.

Andrew Garfield will return as Peter Parker and Emma Stone is gonna reprise her role as Gwen Stacy. Does this editing news confirm that the classic story The Night Gwen Stacy Died is part of the film? For the record Stone endorsed the idea last August when The Amazing Spider-Man was still in theaters...

Dane DeHaan ("Chronicle") has won the role of Harry Osborn Osborn of course is Peter Parker's best friend and eventual enemy who was played by James Franco previously. Jamie Foxx will be playing bad guy Electro. Paul Giamatti plays the villain, the Rhino Chris Cooper has been cast as Norman Osborn--who eventually becomes Spidey's number one foe--The Green Goblin--The character was played previously by Willem Dafoe Felicity Jones (Like Crazy), has an undisclosed role in the film. Former Office star B.J. Novak has an unspecified role in the film.

Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner are writing the script based on a previous draft by James Vanderbilt.

Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach will produce.

The new film is now in production to meet its May 2nd 2014 release date.

Both The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man 4 already have release dates.

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