Who will play the new Spidey Girlfriend?
After deliberating among several possible actors to play Spider-man in the reboot which will be directed by Marc Webb, the production is now looking into casting who will play the webbed crusaders girlfriend. Sources say, the lady will not be Mary Jane, who, as everyone knows, has been Peter Parker’s love interest for so very long. In the last movies, Mary Jane was played by Kirsten Dunst.
The new character, the love interest is Gwen Stacy. She is actually in the comics and was introduced in the last Spider-man movie. Bryce Dallas Howard played her.
High up on the list of possible actresses to play Gwen Stacy is Julia Roberts’ niece, Emma Roberts, who is fast becoming a star just like her celebrity aunt and father, Eric Roberts.
Also up for the part is Ophelia Lovibond, who is a British actress and has appeared on the critically acclaimed film, Nowhere Boy.
Lilly Collins, who was in the film The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock, was also said to be considered, so has been Teresa Palmer, who recently was in theaters, appearing on The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
These girls were invited for readings as well as meetings with the film’s executives, though no screen tests were done yet, as rumors suggests. There are still a number of other young ladies on the list.
The Spider-Man reboot is going to be really young and hip as the film is set in High School, compared to the adult Spider-Man in the earlier films.
Shooting will start this coming December.
With the awards season over, the press seems to have pulled all their guns and are reporting not so great news about Oscar award winner, Sandra Bullock, who have, before the awards show, only been getting relatively good press.
Oscars 2010 was the battle of the exes with former husband and wife, Katheryn Bigelow and James Cameron, each vying for the Best Director plum and the Best Picture plum for their movies.
I was expecting many of the stars and movies when the Oscar nominees were announced earlier. There were really no real surprises but I’m still very curious to know the reactions from the stars themselves. Here’s is what some of them said or did when they heard their names announced. This has been culled from several videos online and on television:
