“I was like, ‘What if MJ is a dude?’ Why can’t we discover that Peter is exploring his sexuality? It’s hardly even groundbreaking! So why can’t he be gay? Why can’t he be into boys?”Īmazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb quickly dismissed this idea, but Garfield pressed on, mentioning Michael B. Last year, he made this offhand comment during an interview with Entertainment Weekly, wondering why Peter Parker couldn’t be bisexual:
The good news is that Andrew Garfield does seem sensitive to the ramifications of having eternal underdog Peter Parker remain a straight, white man. Of course, the role eventually went to Andrew Garfield, but the point had already been made: Sony had given the impression of being so resistant to change that it hadn’t even considered allowing non-white actors to audition for the role. There’s no better example of this than the 2010 campaign for Donald Glover to be cast as the first black Spider-Man. With just five years between Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man, it’s no surprise that fans were hoping for a few more changes between the original and reboot versions. Abrams’ Star Trek or Christopher Nolan’s Batman. This isn’t the revitalization of an aging franchise like J.J.
The most common criticism of the Amazing Spider-Man movies is that with the original Spider-Man trilogy so fresh in people’s minds, a reboot seems kind of… redundant.
