Actors: Patrick Fugit to be next Spider-Man?May 27th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
 | | Just a rumor for now, but Patrick Fugit is apparently topping the list of Tobey Maguire replacements. This would confirm the news last week, about Sony Pictures’ problems with the ‘Spider-Man 4′ cast. Maguire was supposedly offered $20 million to lead in the new ‘Spider-Man,’ but it seems like money wasn’t enough to convince him.
Patrick Fugit is best known for his role as Rolling Stone Magazine reporter William in ‘Almost Famous.’ Second on the list to play Spidey, is ‘The Forbidden Kingdom’ star Michael Angarano. But Fugit seems like a better fit to play the new Peter Parker.
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‘Spider-man 4′ “issues with the cast and so on”?May 22nd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
After the enormous box office success of ‘Spider-Man 3,’ you would expect Sony Pictures to be all over part 4. But while Sony paid Marvel to renew the rights, there’s an unpleasantly low amount of news on the picture. Marvel Vice Chairman Peter Cuneo says it’s all up to Sony. They’ll have nothing to do with the movie, since the series started before Marvel went on to produce its own movies.
Coneo said the “most likely scenario is 2010 or 2011 but we can’t speak for them and I think that we don’t know. They have given us their re-up payment for that film so you know they’re going to make it within a reasonable timeframe. Sony may be looking at some issues with the cast and so on, I think they have to make some decisions.“
You can tell he isn’t giving out all his facts. Is Sam Raimi really not going to direct ‘Spider-Man 4′? Is Tobey Maguire sick of playing Spidey? It can’t be the money. The last movie made $890 million worldwide, so Sony has enough to pay these guys a decent salary. But I’d say Jason Biggs makes for a good new nerdy Peter Parker. Just to freshen up the series a bit.
