Marc Webb Articles

Andrew Garfield, the next Spider-man, in Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Lions for Lambs, Boy A) will be the new Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Sony/Columbia has announced. Marc Webb of (500) Days of Summer will direct the Spider-Man reboot, from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt (Zodiac, The Losers). Tobey Maguire played Parker and his alter ego in three highly successful [...]

Marc Webb directs Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer (Chuck Zlotnick / Fox Searchlight) Former music video director Marc Webb, whose quirky romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer became one of the sleeper hits of 2009, will be the next Spider-Man director, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios have announced. After disagreements over the screenplay, director Sam Raimi and actor Tobey Maguire [...]

Robert Pattinson as Spider-Man. Why not? For Tobey Maguire’s replacement, some have suggested Michael Cera (!), Shia LaBeouf (acceptable), George Clooney (as a teenager?), Brad Pitt (see Clooney), Channing Tatum (also too old to play teen), Megan Fox (heck, why not a Spider-Woman somewhere down the line?), Taylor Lautner (who’d be fine), Chace Crawford (fine as well), and Jay Leno (now that he’s out of [...]

Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson in The Messenger There were quite a few surprises among the nominees for the St. Louis Film Critics Association 2009 Awards. I mean, Kim So Yong’s Treeless Mountain for best foreign language film? Jeff Stilson’s Good Hair for best documentary? Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Oren Moverman (The Messenger) for best director? Patton Oswald (Big Fan) and Ben Foster (The [...]