He’s happy Spidey moved to Marvel, isn’t sorry he wasn’t asked back, but is still heartbroken over what happened

Sep 1, 2015 12:20 GMT  ·  By
Andrew Garfield in costume for official poster for “The Amazing Spider-Man”
   Andrew Garfield in costume for official poster for “The Amazing Spider-Man”

Sony Pictures’ “The Amazing Spider-Man” reboot was one that nobody (but Sony) wanted. With all this, the 2 movies that did get made fared well with critics and fans, even though they fell short of financial expectations.

Andrew Garfield, who took over from Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, never really got into the details of what happened behind closed doors when the Spider-Man franchise moved to Marvel, but he’s doing it now. The British actor is actually promoting a new movie, “99 Homes,” but he inevitably had to take questions pertaining to the Spider-Man movies.

And as Pajiba puts it, his answers will probably break the hearts of all those fans who actually enjoyed his performance - and the movies, such as they were.

“I never felt like I was able to do enough”

Garfield isn’t resentful for not being asked to reprise the part when Spider-Man moved to Marvel, before Marvel even started negotiations with Tom Holland, who was eventually cast in the role. He’s actually happy this happened because he believes that this superhero needs to have his story told again for the younger audiences.

This is what stands out the most from what he’s saying: Andrew admires Spider-Man and he feels as if he didn’t do justice to the character, though not necessarily through a fault of his own but rather because of a sum of things that simply didn’t work out.

He sounds defeated, in that he wanted the franchise to be great and it didn’t turn out to be this way.

“I never felt enough. I never felt like I was able to do enough. And I couldn’t rescue those films… even though I didn’t sleep,” he says. “And I wanted to… not to say that I needed to rescue those films, but I couldn’t make them as deep and soulful and… life-giving as I could ever dream.”

He knows that he will never be able to do that with any of his films, but the Spider-Man failure hurt him the most because the character had meant the world to him growing up.

He also mentions his appearance at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 and what high hopes he had for the franchise at the time, all of which he saw dashed in the following years.

Spider-Man is now part of Marvel’s Avengers universe

In the weeks following November’s Sony Hack, which dug up a lot of dirt on “Amazing Spider-Man” and Garfield, up to the day when the franchise went to Marvel, there was a lot of talk of how Sony did wrong by Garfield and everyone else involved in the making of the movies.

By the time the first “Amazing Spider-Man” movie came out, Sony was already desperate for it to be a success, so they opted to trade storytelling quality for whatever it took to make it a blockbuster. It could very well be that both movies turned out to be something else than what Garfield had signed up for, which would explain his disappointment and frustration.

On the bright side, Spider-Man will be getting a new lease of life with Marvel, but that means he will be an entirely different character from the one we’ve seen in these two Garfield movies.

Rumor has it that Holland will be making his first appearance as Spidey in “Captain America: Civil War,” which drops in May 2016.