A couple of days ago Andrew Garfield spoke about his enthusiasm for his incarnation of Peter Parker “passing the torch” to Miles Morales at some point in Sony’s rebooted Spider-Man franchise, but it looks like we can forget about that for the foreseeable future, with The Amazing Spider-Man 2 producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach ruling out Morales, Ben Reilly or Miguel o’Hara making an appearance in the series…
“The one thing you cannot do, when you have a phenomena that has stood the test of time, you have to be true to the real character inside,” Arad told The Playlist. “Who is Peter Parker? What are the biggest effects on his life? Then you can draw in time, and you can consider today’s world in many ways. But to have multiple ones… I don’t know if you remember, but Marvel tried it. And it was almost the end of Spider-Man.”
Tolmach then offered a feint hope that we may one day see another incarnation of Spider-Man, stating that: “As far as we’re concerned [Spider-Man will always be Peter Parker]. The guys who take it over after us… who knows?”
Are you disappointed that we won’t get to see any other characters as Spider-Man in Sony’s Spidey universe, or are they right to stick with Peter Parker? Let us know your thoughts…
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is out now in the UK and opens in North America this Friday (May 2nd), with a cast that also includes Emma Stone (Gwent Stacy), Sally Field (Aunt May), Chris Zylka (Flash Thompson), Campbell Scott (Richard Parker), Embeth Davidtz (Mary Parker), Martin Sheen (Ben Parker) and Denis Leary (George Stacy) alongside new additions Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained) as Electro, Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) as Harry Osborn, Paul Giamatti (12 Years a Slave) as The Rhino, Chris Cooper (American Beauty) as Norman Osborn, Colm Feore (Thor) as Donald Menken, Felicity Jones (Like Crazy) as Felicia Hardy, Marton Csokas (The Lord of the Rings) as Dr. Kafka, and B.J. Novak (The Office) as Alistair Smythe. Read our reviews here, here and here.
Originally published May 1, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
