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Emma Stone Dating Andrew Garfield

February 8, 2012 by · Comments Off on Emma Stone Dating Andrew Garfield 

Emma Stone Dating Andrew Garfield, The actors, along with their producers, Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, held a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, and discussed some major plot lines. Garfield admitted that he does feel a large amount of pressure taking on a role that is still so fresh in the public’s mind. The last installment of Tobey Maguire’s version hit theaters in 2007.

“Not just because of the fact Tobey, Sam [Raimi] and Miss [Kirsten] Dunst did incredible work and honored the vision of Stan Lee, but actually because of the further history of the character,” he said, adding, “Of Peter Parker, how he originated and all the original evolutions that he’s ever gone through.”

But it’s not something Garfield feels has gotten out of control. “I think if we didn’t feel any pressure, we wouldn’t be doing our jobs properly,” he said. “It’s an important, mythical, fictional figure, that I know is deeply, deeply important to me personally. I think a healthy amount of pressure is probably a positive thing.”

Garfield also discussed the highly physical role. “I had about four months of training … where I would exhaust myself every day and get into near-death experiences every hour, on the hour,” he said. “It was just fantastic and terribly, terribly challenging.” The actor admitted he had not one but three stunt doubles.

As for a worthy follow-up to the “iconic” upside-down kiss shared between Dunst’s Mary Jane and Maguire’s Peter Parker in the first Spider-Man, Stone, who plays Gwen Stacy, says there will be kissing, but it will be up to the viewers to decide its importance.

“You don’t wanna know, you wanna watch the movie and find out,” Stone teased, adding, “It would be weird if we were like, ‘Yes, there will be something iconic coming up.’ You’ve gotta decide if it’s iconic or not. There is a nice first kiss, I will say that, and it’s different than the upside-down one.”

The Amazing Spider Man

February 8, 2012 by · Comments Off on The Amazing Spider Man 

The Amazing Spider Man, “The Amazing Spider-Man” dropped in on hundreds of fans Monday. Sony Pictures teased the latest incarnation of the web-slinging superhero, which doesn’t arrive in U.S. theaters until July 3, at preview events held Monday at movie theaters in 13 cities spanning the globe, including Mexico City, Berlin, Rome, Paris and Moscow, with the cast and filmmakers appearing in Los Angeles, New York, Rio de Janeiro and London.

The event began with the debut of the 3D full-length “Amazing Spider-Man” trailer, which will hit theaters this weekend and debut online Wednesday. The trailer featured footage of Andrew Garfield as a charmingly awkward Peter Parker being bullied at school, testing out his new web-slinging gadgets and battling the villainous Lizard high above New York.

“I think there are a lot of things from the Spider-Man canon that haven’t yet been explored cinematically,” said director Marc Webb in Los Angeles. “This movie really starts off with Peter Parker and his parents, which is something we’ve never really seen before, and I think that was something we were all really interested in exploring as filmmakers.”

Garfield, who appeared in New York, said Spider-Man is more than just a character. He’s a symbol that was once portrayed by Tobey Maguire and now by himself, and he hoped the next person to play the crime-fighting superhero would be a “half-Hispanic, half African-American actor,” referencing the latest incarnation of the character in the comic books.

Emma Stone, who plays love interest Gwen Stacey, told fans in Rio de Janeiro that Stacey and Mary Jane Watson, Parker’s girlfriend portrayed by Kirsten Dunst in the previous films, are “polar opposites,” while Rhys Ifans said in London that his character, Dr. Curt Connors, who becomes the Lizard, has “a very complex and emotional” link to Parker.

After the cast addressed fans, Webb unveiled extended 2D footage from the film peppered with music from the Rolling Stones and Coldplay. The scenes included Parker asking Stacey out on a date, Spider-Man humorously blasting a car thief with webs and the one-armed Dr. Connors telling Parker that “your father and I were going to change the lives of millions.”

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