Josh Hutcherson On Making the Spider-Man Shortlist

Good Stuff! @DCMF

What's up with the formatting tho? Are you still workin on this? It's not up to your usual standards...

Great find tho...

NO!
aaron johnson!

Another bad choice.

Great article DCMF but I really hope and pray that this guy doesnt get it. I've come to terms with the fact we're stuck with a younger version of Peter Parker in 2012 but there are a lot of better choices out there than Hutcherson IMO.

Anyone read the first part of "Grim Hunt" in Amazing this week? Pretty awesome right?

Hutcherson is a reasonable choice by me.

@JoshW I'm buying it tomorrow then I will post my review.

I don't know why.......




.....but I hate Josh Hutcherson

Eviltwin: Oh, you're gonna love it man! I dont want to say anything for risk of spoilers but prepare to be AMAZED! :) CBM doesnt post all that much comic book news unless it's a big story but you might be interested in reading my interview with ASM writer Fred Van Lente I did a little while back:

PART ONE
PART TWO

Destroyer14: Looking forward to it!

DCMF: Hey, that's a pretty good choice actually! I cant say I'm too familiar with his work but he's got the right look and demeanor that I would associate with a younger Spider-Man! A slightly older actor who can pull off a high school kid is exactly what we need though which is why my top choice would probably have to be Jamie Bell. Although, the slightly younger Logan Lerman and Aaron Johnson would also be two excellent picks IMO!

tea: LMAO!!! :D

Got part one to work, but part two won't come up.

Good interview Josh! Van Lente is probably one of the better writer on ASM right now. I was reading a review on IGN Comics of Grim Hunt and they were loving how it's taking a darker turn. Which I'm happy for 'cause I think it's sometimes been a little too light for me.

I've always though Spidey was at his best reads when there was real serious sh1t going on. I was really loving Civil War tie in/Back in Black issues. I was so hoping for May to actually die this time (just because they have toyed with it soooo many times over the years), and let his life play out from the events of all that. But nooooooo, they had to screw with it. That said, I am enjoying a lot of post BND.

Looking forward to O.M.I.T. I'm thinking Spidey went to Loki for his favour and cast a spell to make everybody forget who he is, and MJ asked Mephisto to remember everything.

comicb00kguy@ Indeed

Guys.....STFU!

Josh, believe it or not is a great actor, MUCH more so then Logan learman, thats right, i said MUCH MORE. The kids, grown, he's the most REASONABLE age wise for the role being that he isnt even 20 yet.

@wolversinesfury I actualy couldsee Ashely As more of a felicia hardy, BUT as MJ i could also see her.

c'mon he's never read the comic books but saw the movies when he was 9 and loves them---we're screwed, we really are if this guy gets cast. And for those who are not familiar with this actor, he's like 5'5 and isn't growing any taller, has a blockhead and just doesn't give off a peter parker vibe.

LOGAN LERMAN OR YELCHIN FOR SPIDEY

<> Interesting info - I could come around to the idea of him playing Spider-Man! I understand you wanting an American to play Peter but Aaron Johnson's flawless accent in Kick-Ass proves to me he's more than capable! Still, Logan Lerman has always been my top choice and that's who I'm sticking with for now..! By the way, if you're looking for a great Spidey graphic novel to pick up, give this one a go:



Peter Parker gets back into the swing of his life and embarks on a new career, but a sudden encounter with an enigmatic stranger forever changes the way he looks at himself. Reprints Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #30 - #35.

You dont need any knowledge of his history to understand it and it's one of the best Spider-Man stories ever told that gives a really interesting and refreshing take on the character. You should be able to find it dirt cheap on Amazon/eBay as it's a few years old too!

EvilTwin: Thanks! :) Part Two should work for you now if you try again!

I know what you mean - I love the more serious Spider-Man stories! "Back in Black" was great, especially after JMS' work started going downhill with the Gwen Stacy storline and "The Other", and it would have been interesting to actually kill May. They handled the identity reveal very badly though IMO so I was glad to see it go because it never reached the potential I thought it could of. "Brand New Day" may not have been introduced that well but bringing back Harry and the direction the title has taken since has been brilliant for the most part.

I just wish they had never made Aunt May, Black Cat and Norman Osborn forget Spider-Man's identity as they're three of his most important relationships. Saying that, I'm hoping OMIT will explain all of that as well as how people remember him as soon as he takes the mask off and why MJ still remembers etc. I dont want this to be like the finale of Lost, lol! Marvel need to answer ALL of these questions and more! My guess is you're right about Loki as well.

TheSoulEater: I dunno...I just dont like the look of him to be honest! There's no way I can picture him as Peter Parker!

ANIL: Find me when you've read it...we have much to dicuss, lol!

While Aaron Johnson was great in Kick Ass, I don't know if he'd realistically accept being Peter Parker so soon after he played Dave Lizewski. Just seems too similar, too soon.

@Anil
100% agree with you in your 1st paragraph! My thoughts exactly.

If you go back in JMS's run there was a story where Loki came to SM for help with his daughter (?). Anyway, by the end of it, Loki said to Spidey if he ever needed anything.................(something close to that anyway I think). So Loki could possibly how nobody remembers. Just a theory. (Quote "but spidey going to Loki?" Remember, he did go to some bad guys when trying to find ways to save aunt may from her death bed.)

I thought I read Quesada had stated that it was NOT Mephisto who did the mind wipe. I think it was during the FF story where Johnny was getting mad about not knowing his identity, or during the one with Osbourne (Character Assasination or New Ways To Die) that Peter says "Good to see what we did with my identity still works." (paraphrasing here). To me "we" sounds like he might have went to somebody. I hope we'll find out.

Good call on what MJ might have whispered Anil, but, I think she has had them all along. I was re-reading some AMS recently, on the phone MJ suggests to Peter some women he could date (again, something like that) and one of them she suggests Black Cat! In the Paper Doll story, MJ shows that she know his identity there too.

Oh no! I haven't read Grim Hunt yet Anil, lol. Earmuffs earmuffs.

Sorry if this stuff may be inacurrate, I'm try to type and think of the things off the top of my head. Lol.

[frick] the reboot

@Josh/Anil

RE: ASM-Ya, highs and lows for sure. I'm getting a little tired of some of the not so good artwork lately. This is Marvels flagship book, it need to step it up a notch IMO. I'd love to see Deodato come back. But really, I'd love to see the quality of Brubaker/Epting run on Captain America brought to Amazing Spider-Man

@ Josh
So right on the other segments of The Other storyline.

100% right on the Spectacular one too.

And, yes, Spidey should have had a bigger role in Dark Reign/Seige. Marvel screwed the pooch on that one.

I'm sure I did read something about that month lapse at the start of BND would be in OMIT

Ya, Norman is a class act all the way, hahahahaha.

you guys have been havin a spidey comic conversation while i been at work?!?! AHHHH!!!!!!
-cant believe lizard di that to his kid
-grim hunt is going to be pretty cool but OMIT is what im really waitin for
-that little goblin baby is gonna shake things up for sure. i was lookin at marvel.com and they had the september previews and the amazing spiderman covers create a poster that looks so cool and implies some crazy ish is about to go down with everybody in the spidey universe!!!

No idea of his acting ability, but he looks like a teenage meat head douchebag..no offence kid!