UPDATED: Martin Sheen Joins the Cast of Marc Webb's 'Spider-Man'
Sheen fills out one-third of the Parker household
UPDATE: On the heels of the Martin Sheen casting, it's being reported Sally Field is in talks to play Aunt May.
The cast of Marc Webb's Untitled Spider-Man Reboot has added one more piece of the puzzle by casting Martin Sheen as Peter Parker's Uncle Ben, the role played by Cliff Robertson in Sam Raimi's original film in 2002. Here's the description of the character courtesy of Marvel.com:
Ben Parker was a boy around the time of World War II. He was in love with May Parker, who was in love with a criminal. Ben convinced her that her lover was no good, and the two married.
When Ben's brother Richard and his wife Mary died, Ben and May decided to raise their son Peter as their own. Peter loved his uncle and aunt more than anyone in the world. Ben was killed when a burglar was robbing their house. Ben accidentally surprised him causing the burglar to shoot him. His death sparked the transformation of Peter Parker into Spider-Man.
He once returned for five minutes as part of a birthday present from Doctor Strange for Peter Parker.
As depicted in Raimi's film, Ben Parker is murdered, serving as just part of the inspiration for Peter Parker to fight crime as Spider-Man.
Sheen joins Andrew Garfield who will play Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy and Rhys Ifans as the film's villain, The Lizard. Ifans, in fact, recently spoke about the role with the Associated Press saying he's "very, very excited about it… I'm constantly suppressing a very wide smile. It's a great script, great director and the money ain't bad."
The film is set to begin production in December for a July 3, 2012 release.
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Martin Sheen, hmm not a bad choice at all.
I really like this choice. Sheen is a fantastic actor and seeing as uncle ben is an extremely important character in the spidey universe it helps to have an actor that can bring some gravitas to it. I just hope they don't follow too closely to the original trilogy and kill him off too early. I'd rather see things pick up after Peter is already spiderman and paint a more detailed picture of their relationship through various flashbacks instead of just having him there at the beginning.
Have to say, I like the direction this is going. Garfield is a solid choice for Parker, Ifans is a good actor and Lizard is an interesting choice for the first villain. I hope Webb can pull it all together and come out with something that stands on it's own from the Raimi films.
Thus far I'd say casting is 4/4. I'm a huge fan of all 4 actors that have been announced thus far, and while I'm not the biggest fan in the world of (500) Days of Summer, I still think Marc Webb is an interesting choice for director, and am very excited to see what he can do, and James Vanderbilt is a terrific screenwriter.
I'm not really a big fan of any of the Spidey films thus far (2 was decent, 1/3 were pretty bad in my opinion), but with this sort of cast/crew building up, it's hard not to get excited for the possibilities.
I'am in agreement with other posters, this is actually looking good.
I'm glad there going with a new villian unused by Sam Raimi too, keep the redundancy lower.
I don't like The Lizard as the villain. Doctor Connors should have had more character development before he turned in a later movie.
I wish they would have gone with Electro or Rhino.
I still hope they cast Norman and Harry so they can debut Green Goblin in the second one. And not the armored Green Goblin we saw in Raimi's Spiderman, I want the green psycho goblin-looking villain from the comics/animated series.
So who do you guys think should play the Osbournes?
My choices for Norman are:
#1 Ralph Fiennes
#2 Viggo Mortensen
#3 Jason Isaacs
#4 Josh Brolin
#5 Bruce Greenwood
And for Harry:
#1 Armie Hammer (I know he was with Garfield in The Social Network, but he proved to me that he can be a great actor)
#2 Alden Ehrenreich
#3 Connor Paolo
#4 Jamie Bell
#5 Anton Yelchin
I'm fine with Martin Sheen, Sally Field, I just don't know.