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ON THE<br />
HORIZON<br />
by Sara Maria Vizcarrondo<br />
ANDREW<br />
GARFIELD IS THE<br />
NEW, ER, FACE OF<br />
SPIDER-MAN<br />
THE AMAZING<br />
SPIDER-MAN<br />
TIME TO SLIP INTO THE STRETCHY SUIT<br />
>> Peter Parker may seem small, but this franchise<br />
is enormous. Sony opted to stop development on<br />
Spider-Man 4 in the interest of an all-out reboot<br />
with the same basic characters, largely different<br />
production crew, a different premise and a story<br />
that doesn’t even recognize the reddish, fuzzy<br />
memory of Mary Jane. New problems, new girlfriend—this<br />
one is Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy. In<br />
this Spider-Man, Peter Parker, played by English<br />
art-house darling (and relative anti-action hero)<br />
Andrew Garfield (Lions for Lambs, Boy A) learns<br />
his long-lost father worked in a lab with a partner<br />
named Connors (an iffy and accent-free Rhys Ifans).<br />
Their experiment was meant to improve lives,<br />
but it somehow turned Connors into The Lizard—<br />
imagine a werewolf with scales. Connors’ reptilian<br />
alter ego begins to pursue Spider-Man, while<br />
the local police, headed by Gwen’s father (Denis<br />
Leary), ironically turn the unitard-clad hero into<br />
Gotham’s Most Wanted. The involvement of Marc<br />
Webb, director of the upbeat-yet-emo (500) Days<br />
of Summer, suggests this Spider-Man will pluck<br />
some male heartstrings. In tune with that, the<br />
men in production approached their roles with an<br />
intimacy; Ifans insisted on donning his CGI suit<br />
for the portion of his role requiring him to “be” a<br />
nine-foot-tall lizard, and Garfield confessed that<br />
the first time he put on the Spidey gear, he cried<br />
and tried to imagine “a better actor in the suit.”<br />
Whatever your thought on the franchise, its apparent<br />
worth to audiences can’t be overstated, which<br />
makes it a high-demand tentpole set to open in the<br />
heart of this blockbuster summer.<br />
DISTRIBUTOR Sony/Columbia CAST Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone,<br />
Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Deni Leary, Irrfan Khan DIREC-<br />
TOR Marc Webb SCREENWRITER James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent,<br />
Steve Kloves PRODUCER Avi Arad, Todd Black, Laura Ziskin, Matt<br />
Tolmach GENRE Action/Adventure RATING TBA RUNNING TIME TBA<br />
RELEASE DATE <strong>May</strong> 3, <strong>2012</strong><br />
108 BOXOFFICE PRO MAY <strong>2012</strong>
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