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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
You're not an adult until you can rent a car.
This is how its been going all the way back to when our ancient ancestors lived in caves and rode dinosaurs to the car rental place.
I'm not sure why you'd even want to rent a car if dinosaurs were available to ride but they were backwards times.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOr they could have just cast a 19 year old that looked his age. What is so wrong with Spider-Man being in his late teens to early twenties? I sometimes get the sense people prefer him as a kid while I always thought he was more interesting after he graduated high school.
edited 23rd Jun '15 12:38:20 PM by Kostya
Somehow, casting a British actor as Peter Parker feels like a bigger change than casting a non-white actor would be, making all of the arguments about needing fidelity to the comics, consistency with the character, etc. seem a bit silly.
Being from New York is kind of central to his character in a way that being white isn't.
Yeah a lot of it is a case of Running the Asylum where people who grew up reading Spider-Man in the 60's and 70's hated all the later developments and wanted him to be a hip, swingin' bachelor again.
Which is why I find it so surprising that the new Spider-Man series explicitly has an older Peter Parker mentoring Miles.
edited 23rd Jun '15 12:48:34 PM by comicwriter
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I wouldn't go that far. As long as he can affect a proper New York accent, he's fine.
Garfield was British?
Concern entirely withdrawn, then.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Forbes clarifies the Hulk situation
and says that the problem is distribution, not joint ownership. Marvel can make the film but Universal would get the right of first refusal.
Nice to see them averting Dawson Casting for Spider Man this time around.
Not having followed the Spidey stuff closely, what's the character's age supposed to be within the MCU?
Not the comic book interpretations, not the Toby Maguire movies, not the Andrew Garfield movies. Spidey as he's being used in the MCU, which so far has not felt all that concerned with holding to every little detail for characters with up to decades of portrayals.
All your safe space are belong to TrumpKevin Feige said he'd be a "Young kid" but didn't specify an age. There's been nothing official said, but various rumors said they wanted the rebooted Peter to be 14 so they can finally get some mileage out of the high school setting (as opposed to the last two attempts, which blew past high school rather quickly).
edited 23rd Jun '15 2:09:14 PM by comicwriter
Some details from Variety
. Among other things, they mention that Spider-Man's role in Civil War is essentially just a cameo, and that the reason casting took so long is because he'll only be shooting for a week anyway.
Yay, hopefully we can finally put all the "Black Panther will take Spidey's role" and other dumb Spidey rumors to rest now. It was established early on with the leaks that even if he did make it into the film that Spidey was never going to be a significant character. People worried he'd steal screentime can cool their jets.
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Which is probably a good thing to be honest. If they had a script they were happy with before the Spider-Man deal, then re-writing it to include Spider-Man in a major role would of probably done more harm then good. A cameo to establish he's out there ahead of his solo film on the other hand is fine.
I'm fine with them casting a younger Peter Parker. If they went older, then they couldn't turn back the clock, but by starting young they can still do an older Peter Parker down the road in Phase 4/5.
edited 23rd Jun '15 2:46:09 PM by Falrinn

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