Talking to
Vulture recently, Terry Gilliam (who worked with Andrew Garfield on
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus before he found further fame with
The Social Network and
Never Let Me Go) shared his thoughts on the British actor playing Spider-Man, letting slip one very interesting piece of information about how Garfield is approaching the role physically. Here are a couple of excerpts from the article, but you can click on the link below to read more about what he thought of Andrew Garfield and the critical and commercial failure of movies like
Green Lantern.
On Andrew Garfield's Physical Portrayal Of Spider-Man:
And I think Andrew is going to make a good Spidey. It’s really good, because he’s approaching it physically. I was just talking to him, and he talked about this movement, imagining that you have these other legs — eight legs, so four more legs. There’s this delay. I don’t know if he’s still going to do it, but it’s fantastic.
On What He Thinks About The Current Wave Of Comic Book Movies:
What’s so funny is because of growing up with comics, and always wanting to do that kind of movie, I have no interest in them at all now. That’s what I wanted to do, and now everyone else is doing them, so I don’t do them. I don’t even go now. I see the trailers, and I think, I’ve seen that trailer for about 20 years now! The same shots, the same dilemma — what are we doing here? Who’s going to make the leap that makes it different? And strangely, the ones that do are animated films. I saw Rango on the way over here, and it was wonderful. It was really funny! I think what’s happened is, they all kind of do the same thing. And aren’t they running out of good comic-book characters? When they run out of Marvel characters, will they be hitting up Neil Gaiman’s characters? Or will comic books be burned out by then, as films? I think Chris Nolan gets comic books. His Batman stuff is really good.
With an all star cast that includes Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, Denis Leary as Captain George Stacy, Rhys Ifans as Curt Connors, Martin Sheen as Uncle Ben and Sally Field as Aunt May,
The Amazing Spider-Man is set to be released in 3D on July 3, 2012!
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