Earlier this month we heard some comments from Andrew Garfield about Tom Holland taking over the role of Spider-Man for the wall-crawler’s upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe reboot, and now Garfield has revealed to Uproxx that he’d petitioned Sony to strike a deal with marvel, as well as speaking briefly about the now-aborted Amazing Spider-Man 3.
“I’ve been petitioning to hook up with Marvel since the beginning, so I’m really glad they’re finally doing it,” said Garfield, before adding that he was never in talks with Marvel to continue as Peter: “To be honest [pauses], all the ins and outs of what happened is a more tender conversation that maybe I don’t want to talk about in public in a press situation. But all I can say is that I’m stoked to go and watch a Marvel film of Spider-Man.”
Garfield then touched upon where The Amazing Spider-Man 3 might have went plot-wise: “I was actually starting to workshop ideas with Alex Kurtzman, who was going to be writing it. We thought to kind of start from the base level, the foundational level of where have we left Peter and where do we want to see him go and what’s logical. And how do we build upon where we left off with this deep, desperate moment with Gwen? So, yeah, we got to some pretty heavy places and I was really excited to kind of explore it and be involved on the ground level like that. But, anyway, it wasn’t meant to be. As I say, I’m just really excited that I get to watch.”
Captain America: Civil War opens on April 29th 2016 in the UK and May 6th 2016 in the States, while the as yet untitled Spider-Man reboot will hit cinemas on July 28th 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL18yMRIfoszEaHYNDTy5C-cH9Oa2gN5ng&v=8k_v0cVxqEY
Originally published August 29, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
