Here's an interesting little thing. LatinoReview recently got their hands on this audition tape featuring actor Josh Hutcherson auditioning for the lead in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot. Hutcherson, as you may recall, was one of several different actors who auditioned for the Peter Parker role, which eventually went to Andrew Garfield.
I'm always fascinated by the auditions process, especially when it's for action-heavy stuff like this. Looks like Sony was far more interested in how nerdy-slash-bad ass Hutcherson could be, as opposed to little things like, you know, dialogue delivery.
What do you all think? Did Hutcherson nail the landing, or web-swing into the side of a building?
To be fair the video is labelled 'Fight Demo' so there could have been additional auditions for dialogue heavy scenes.
Don't like how he's constantly pouty and has his mouth open when he's trying to look "badass" or whatever, though. That's real bad.
And although this might not be an actual scene in the movie, I hadn't realized that 'reboot' meant 'redo origin story'. I was kind of hoping they'd just jump straight into him being spiderman, since, y'know, it's not like everyone's forgotten who he is or anything. Maybe that'll still be the case, I dunno.
I dunno. It could work. But I still have trouble seeing him as Peter Parker. I hope they don't use the same music as they did for the previous Spideys, because that felt completely out of place.
Why would you say that? I think the same stuff happened to Spider-Man Classic.
Does anyone else think this reboot will do horribly?
I very much want it to do so, not that I ever want things to do horribly, but if it does not this means we will be being seeing alot more reboots of I don't know - everything from Iron Man and Cats & Dogs.
I enjoyed his fighting though. Even for a demonstration, it makes the fighting from the first films look pretty average. Honestly, I barely remember a lot of it, because it was mostly cg, and the live action was the default "kick, punch, kick kick, punch punch, dodge, repeat."
Hutcherson's kicks weren't default kicks. They were Spider-Man kicks. His punches, dodges, leg sweep, all very Spider-Man. The Maguire Spider-Man didn't really have cool moves like that (At least in live action).
That backwards push was pretty sick too. I watched it twice.
This is literally the stupidest thing I've seen since the Jersey Shore.
And if this is a scene from the actual movie, I hold VERY little hope for the final product. Good lord...