Andrew Garfield On ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 4’: “That’s Not Anything To Do With Me”
Sony’sThe Amazing Spider-Manfranchise currently rests on the strong shoulders of its star, 30-year-oldAndrew Garfield. But that may not be the case by the time by the time 2018 rolls around.
Although Garfield is contracted to appear up throughThe Amazing Spider-Man 3, which hits in 2016, he says he’snotsigned forThe Amazing Spider-Man 4, which is due out two years later. Does this mean another new Peter Parker could be coming up on the horizon? Hit the jump to read Garfield’s comments.
While it was assumed from the beginning thatThe Amazing Spider-Manwouldlaunch a trilogy, if all went well, theannouncementofThe Amazing Spider-Man 4took us by surprise. Indeed, directorMarc Webbadmits in the same video interview that “we did think about these movies from the very beginning as a series of movies… Really a trilogy, to be totally frank.”
What exactly Sony has in store for the fourth movie remains a mystery. However, those in charge have hinted that they’d like to expand the Spideyverse by makingThe Amazing Spider-Man 4"not just a Spider-Man movie,“and instead placing a greater focus on"new heroes and villains.”
Even so, it’d be odd to have Spider-Man-adjacent plotlines with no Spider-Man at all. We can only imagine that Sony is either working on renewing their contract with Garfield, or, failing that, looking for other young up-and-comers who could slip into the spider-suit.
In the meantime, Garfield claims that next year’sThe Amazing Spider-Man 2will be quite a treat. “I was crying. I was welled up. I’m an easy crier, but I was really emotionally moved,” he said of his initial meeting with writersRoberto OrciandAlex Kurtzman.
“I think there was something that we were missing in the first one because our focus wasn’t on character so much,” Garfield acknowledged. “It was on trying to keep a number of plates spinning in the air.” In contrast, withThe Amazing Spider-Man 2, “We’ve established the world and now we get to play inside that world and use our imagination and kind of expand.”
The Amazing Spider-Man 2opensMay 2, 2014, followed byThe Amazing Spider-Man 3onJune 10, 2016andThe Amazing Spider-Man 4onMay 4, 2018.
