"Amazing Spider-man 2" discussion

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Told by who exactly?

He didn't say. If MJ is only being introduced in the third film it would be odd to cast the part now. If Gadon is playing MJ and they've cast her now that might indicate, contrary to prior indications, that they're going to introduce MJ in the second film, with Gadon replacing Woodley in reshoots. Weird things going on with this film.

 

[Turtletrekker]

This has been debunked and REbunked.

 

[JD]

Yeah, it is kinda weird that they'd say they weren't going to introduce MJ, and then go and possibly recast her.

Given how crowded the film already is, this might not be a bad thing, though obviously it sucks from Shailene's POV (especially if she is re-cast for part 3).

Not to much though. There's a pretty good chance Divergence is going to be at least fairly popular, and she's the lead in that rather than the supporting role she would have played in ASM2.

 

[Dream]

Gadon is such a babe!

 

[Aldo]

She looks fifteen years old.

 

[Captain Craig]

Sarah Gadon might have been cast as the new new Mary Jane Watson

Carlie Cooper anyone?

 

[Dream]

She looks fifteen years old.

Sarah Gadon is actually 26 and older than Shailene Woodley who is 21. Woodley is the one the looks like a teenager to me.

 

[Thestral]

They finally got a glamourous actress this time!

 

[Christopher]

Latest update:

Sarah Gadon IS in Amazing Spider-Man 2 briefly. She is NOT playing Mary Jane Watson, who will NOT appear until Part THREE.

(Yes, it's the same link from post #142, but apparently it's just been updated.)

 

[Shazam!]

She looks fifteen years old.

Yeah, they need to be casting those closer to 30 to play these teenagers...

 

[Aldo]

Touche.

I think she's a step down from the other girl they had cast to play MJ though.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Latest update:

Sarah Gadon IS in Amazing Spider-Man 2 briefly. She is NOT playing Mary Jane Watson, who will NOT appear until Part THREE.

(Yes, it's the same link from post #142, but apparently it's just been updated.)

Round and round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows...

 

[Dream]

Latest update:

Sarah Gadon IS in Amazing Spider-Man 2 briefly. She is NOT playing Mary Jane Watson, who will NOT appear until Part THREE.

(Yes, it's the same link from post #142, but apparently it's just been updated.)

Remember that Marion Cotillard lied and said she wasn't playing Talia in TDKR in her interviews.

SONY might have told her to deny it because of some of the negative reactions. We won't know for certain until the movie is released.

 

[Gaith]

I think she's a step down from the other girl they had cast to play MJ though.

Who, for all we know, might still. This Divergent could always flop, after all.

 

[Christopher]

Remember that Marion Cotillard lied and said she wasn't playing Talia in TDKR in her interviews.

But that's because her character's identity was a secret within the film itself. It's not an analogous situation.

SONY might have told her to deny it because of some of the negative reactions. We won't know for certain until the movie is released.

That's really kind of paranoid. They'd have to be incredibly inept at PR to replace Woodley with Gadon, release a false story about MJ being cut out altogether, then reveal the next day that Gadon was playing MJ, then try to walk that back by claiming she was playing someone else. That seems like just making things worse for themselves for no reason. It's far, far more likely that, because the news about Gadon's participation in the film came out around the same time as the unrelated news about Woodley's part being cut, someone in the perpetual game of telephone that is the Internet misinterpreted the two news items as being connected, or thought she looked right for the part and jumped to a conclusion.

Gadon herself has now tweeted to confirm that she's playing a different character in the film:

To all those a twitter, I will not be playing MJ in Spider-Man. I have a role in the film, but it is not that one

(same link as above, just updated yet again)

 

[Dream]

ASM2 filming has completed according to Marc Webb

 

[DevilEyes]

Not sure why she can't find the time for both like what Jennifer Lawrence is doing with X-men and The Hunger Games.

Lionsgate and Fox coordinated shooting schedules, with Fox pushing the shoot for DOFP back a bit, to make sure Jennifer Lawrence could do both. Sony is looking to crank out Spider-Man films at a very fast pace, leaving little wiggle room for coordination with another franchise.

According to what I've heard, Fox didn't push the shooting schedule to accommodate Jennifer and Lionsgate at all. They locked her for a shoot starting in January 2013, because she signed the contract for X-Men before she signed for The Hunger Games, which means her X-Men obligations legally take precedence.

That's why Lionsgate had a very tight schedule, which was the reason why Gary Ross decided to walk away, believing he wouldn't have enough time for pre-production. He's a director who doesn't delegate much and likes to have control over every aspect of the filmmaking. Simon Beaufoy walked away with him, and Lionsgate had to find a new director and a screenwriter. They were initially going to shoot Catching Fire from September to January. But then in November X-Men: DOFP got pushed back because of the change of director and Jennifer was free again until May, which gave Lionsgate more breathing room and more time for filming - so after Jennifer's break for the awards season, she and the rest of cast and crew went back to continue filming and do some reshoots in Hawaii.

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

^^^
It was reported that Fox initially wanted to start production on Days of Future Past in fall 2012, but pushed it back to January 2013 to accomodate Lawrence's schedule on Catching Fire. There's this from IFC, for example:

Fans are going to have to wait half a year longer to see the planned "X-Men: First Class" sequel, and it’s all the fault of those darn "Hunger Games."

At least, that’s the case according to The Hollywood Reporter. The outlet is reporting that 20th Century Fox has changed their planned shooting start date for the “X-Men” sequel to accommodate Jennifer Lawrence's filming schedule on “The Hunger Games” sequel, "Catching Fire."

If Fox had wanted to, they could have made Lawrence film the untitled “X-Men” sequel first. She signed a sequel clause in her contract before she came on board “The Hunger Games,” so technically Fox had first dibs. The plan originally was to have the follow-up to “X-Men: First Class” start lensing in the fall, but now Lionsgate is planning for “Catching Fire” to go in front of the camera in August or September. Instead of having a fuss about it, Fox has opted to start shooting “X-Men” in January 2013.

 

[Captaindemotion]

First official look at Electro, facing off Spidey in an Entertainment Weekly cover. I think the make-up and visuals look great and will probably look even better in motion.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=106319

Immediately under is a pic of Peter and Harry.

 

[Dream]

Andrew Garfield on Spider-Man's sexuality: 'Why can't he be gay?'

Andrew Garfield has loved Spider-Man since he was a little kid. He can speak eloquently and at length about how open the Spider-verse is for interpretation. Recently, he says, he had a philosophical discussion with producer Matt Tolmach about Mary Jane or “MJ” to fans. “I was kind of joking, but kind of not joking about MJ,” he tells EW. “And 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?”

SONY won't be pleased when they hear this!