“Audiences want you to be faithful to a certain degree and then also invent things so they feel unique to the experience. “You have the kind of reservations that are good reservations when you feel like you’re doing something exciting,” says producer Matt Tolmach, who notes they haven’t yet decided what to do about the Mary Jane Watson casting. (With three more Divergent films on her plate, Woodley says she’s probably not returning to the franchise.)Īs necessary as Gwen’s death is to tell the complete story of Peter Parker, even the producers admit they weren’t sure they were making the right decision at first.
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“It had such a huge effect on Peter in the comic books and feeds into his relationships in the future in such a major way.” Including romantic ones: The Spectacular Now actress Shailene Woodley was originally cast to play the other love of Peter Parker’s life, Mary Jane Watson, in the film, though her brief scenes were cut to reportedly slim down the movie and focus on concluding Peter’s and Gwen’s relationship. During a clock tower battle with the Green Goblin, Spider-Man’s spider silk catches a falling Gwen just as she hits the ground, where her neck snaps with a gruesome sound effect. “But it was not meant to be.”Īs moviegoers discovered this weekend, Peter Parker’s girlfriend dies in a way that’s similar to her death in the comics. “I wondered if they would extend it further,” Stone says. Could Webb and the producers really kill off a character who added as much new energy to the films as Andrew Garfield did in the titular role?
At the same time, so much of what made The Amazing Spider-Man movie a hit was the thrill of watching Peter and Gwen fall in love on-screen.
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