SDCC '11: Andrew Garfield Speaks On Taking Over The Spider-Man Role From Tobey Maguire

Garfield will nail the role, the suit is the only thing that has me teetering on good to bad.

i was at that panel, he is such a good guy and talked really highly of tobey. the footage looks great and he is going to be such a good peter parker. and the lizard looks [frick]ing awesome!!!

[frick]ing edit buttons where r u?!

Tobey seemed chunkier in the 2nd and 3rd one compared to the first

Tobey did a great job as Peter Parker. Despite that I know that Andrew Garfield will do just as well if not better. The Rami Spiderman series was great. Even though it had its ups and downs, the first two Spiderman's were excellent. Spiderman was the movie that sparked all these comic book movies we have today.

I'm excited for Andrew Garfield, he's so passionate so you know this will be a great movie. I hope that in future movies that Brian Austin Green plays Venom, he'd be perfect

Better not be too damn EMO! And fix that shitty suit before this drops or I will nair the hair off of my balls and coin purse, and throw it in the popcorn of the premires!!! Muwhahahahahahhhaaaaa!!!!!

God I really hate those silver-web linings on the Tobey Spider-Man suit.

I wonder who's bright idea THAT was. But still Spidey 1 and 2 the start to what could have been an epic trilogy.

Garfield will own as Spider-Man

@Bane and Ruddiger- Look guys, I liked both suits. Yeah the slightly silver webbing on the Tobey-suit kinda bugged me but it was- I admit a much better interpretation of the comic book version.

But I do like the new suit. I don't care that the comic book version is different. Spidey is one of the FEW Marvel characters I ever really followed and loved. Any changes from the comics and former films is welcomed by this fanboy. I have said the same thing for Superman countless times. I don't mind if the costumes change slightly. I just don't want something completely unrecognizable.

but furthermore @Ruddiger- I agree with you more man. I always hated the silver-webbings on the Tobey suit. And i really believe Garfield is going to own the role of Spidey.

Perfect Casting.

@brazilianbatman

i always knew you wind blind didnt know you were slow also.

you just said silver webing in the axact pattern as the comics is a bigger slap in the face then blue in his gloves that doesnt exist at all??


yup your idiocy is confirmed

Good to see a fellow fanboy bagged the role :) And ya! I agree he looks like a more believable Peter Parker!

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so in other words RUDDIGER you are indeed handicaped in the eyes.


also i never said anything about how the movie will be as a whole i only stated about what iv seen sofar

the movie could be great but all i know is the costume looks like shit and only idiots such as yourself love it

now please go read a spiderman book and look at his costumes none of them are that damn busy you little sheep.

I've never seen so many people so easily mislead by a picture, have you no memory? Tobey's suit and physique was perfect, absolutely spot on for Spiderman the way he had been drawn for decades..


..before a so called artists who could only draw in caricatures and had no grasp of actual anatomy came on board called Todd McFarlane. McFarlane's art was crap but he did one unique thing with the rendering of the webbing and captured a generation in those over the top silly creature feature stories of Spiderman vs venom. His Spiderman looked inhumanly warped and thin..


..and after that you got a whole bunch of idiot artists who tried their best to make Spidey's anatomy look just as freakishly anatomically incorrect as possible..


But the fact is that Raimi's picked Tobey because he fit the physique of the classic Spiderman and the suit was designed with those silver highlighted webbings so that the light would reflect off them and show up no matter the shot, be it long distance, night, light or up close.



The new suit won't have that effect and unless a shot is extremely up close, all you'll see is red and blue featureless material. Plus Andrew Garfield does not have Tobey's physique, he's taller, lanky and has a very long neck. He'll look more like the warped, skinny Spiderman the artists that followed after McFarlanes era drew.




As you can see the two actors have totally contrasting physiques, Tobey's is more classic Spiderman and Andrew is the skinny warped version of today. But the costume Tobey had is perfect, it's the true design of the classic Spiderman and intelligently designed to capture the webbing pattern no matter the shot type for maximum effect. Andrew's suit is not the classic design, it's more like an action figure variant or one of those ridiculous costumes they throw Peter Parker in for a few months before changing him back into the normal one. It has very thin black lines that practically disappear in nearly everything except a close up like the Spiderman costume from the 1970's movies and tv shows.

So depending on you choice of Spiderman comics be it classic or todays more freaky version, you're gonna prefer Andrews look or Tobey's. But the costume is a win win for Raimi and Tobey's version by a mile for me..

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