"The Amazing Spider-Man 3" is not only delayed, but will be looking for a replacement for Shailene Woodley as Mary Jane Watson. With Woodley and composer James Horner getting off the Spider-Man reboot ship, will there still be a third movie?
Fashion & Style reports that Woodley may not be appearing in the third installment of the Spider-Man reboot. This is according to Woodley's interview with MTVUK where she was asked about superheroes. Instead of mentioning Spider-Man, the "Divergent" star mentioned wanting to be in a superhero movie.
Woodley says, "There's something about going to those big blockbuster films, where you watch people fly across the sky and have long, stretchy arms or these supernatural powers." Fashion & Style noted, "You'd think that she'd at least allude to the fact that she was cast in-and shot scenes for-'The Amazing Spider-Man 2,' especially since the webslinger spends a lot of time flying across the sky."
It led to not surprising assumptions that she would not be the movie's Mary Jane for the third movie.
Aside from Woodley, composer James Horner was also not in the second installment, the reason being that he thought director Marc Webb was inexperienced and that the producers "had their own opinion." Horner also mentioned the producers not wanting Webb's input, which caused conflict for Horner because he wanted to do the movie because of the director, reports Den of Geek.
In Horner's interview, the composer says that he wanted to do the movie because of the director, but proceeded to say that the second film "ended up being so terrible" and "dreadful."
SONY has been taking flank for the "Spider-Man" movies, and according to Air Herald, SONY's decision to have the third movie scheduled in three years has earned criticisms from fans, asking that the franchise be handed over to Marvel. The article also mentions Sony not being able to "capture the first wave of Spidey fans that the first franchise outing had." The first Spider-Man franchise had two movies going successfully until the third movie had fans wondering if the studio had taken time to ponder over the script. This was apparently a reason why they needed a reboot, shares Air Herald.
Considering the reboot's second movie not meeting expectations, Air Herald says, "SONY cannot afford to do things fast, cheap, and whittled down. These 'Spider-Man' movies have to be bigger than life."
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