This is Tobey’s third swing into action as Spiderman. In the first two episodes, he struggled to maintain his life as a super hero crime fighter and a reporter. This time, the stakes are higher; Peter Parker a.k.a Spiderman fights his inner evil and the enemies as usual. In an interview with Collider.com, Tobey Maguire talked about the latest sequel of Spiderman. What were the challenges he faced and his future plans about the movie.
Here is the interview:
Did you ever think that you were going to be an action figure when you were growing up? What does it mean to you?
Uh, I didn't think so, and not much.
When you were getting ready to do this movie Sam was particularly collaborative in getting you guys involved pretty early on as to how the characters were going to be arced in this movie?
Yeah.
How much involvement did you have in that?
Well, the basic storyline was laid out and for me it had to do with, you know, I'd like to see him go further in this direction, I'm not interested in that stuff as much. Kind of getting into the specifics of it and adjusting the tone. But the basic story was there.
The dark side of you in this movie, and the funniest moment in this movie, are the swaggering down the street and seeing all the girls and getting a reaction. How much of that was improved, and how much of that was your involvement?
Uh, you gave me like a multiple choice, it was like the same choice. Was it A or A? I'm like, it was A. Uh--
I think he meant how much of it was scripted and how much of it was you?
Yeah, no, I get it, I get it. You know, it's hard, I do all these interviews and pretty soon I just answer how people ask. I'm not trying to think for myself anymore. But it was, I had a choreographer, or I had a couple of people I worked with for the walk. Basically the general idea of it was choreographed and then, you know, we riffed from there, and Sam would say throw this out, do this, and then I would throw in some thoughts and ideas and you know, just kind of messed around with it.
I apologize for asking this question, because I know everybody asks it, about the 4th film.
Yes.
We talked with Sam about it and he said he wouldn't do it unless you were onboard. We asked Sam what it would take to get him onboard, and now I'm going to ask you what it would take for you?
What did Sam say it would take to get him onboard?
He said he would have to see a deficit in the character of Peter Parker that still needed to be addressed.
That's a good answer. Mine won't be as interesting or as well thought, but, for me there would have to be a great screenplay, a great story, something really worth telling. Some new territory for us to go on with Peter Parker. Sam would have to be involved, the right cast would have to be in place, and then I would consider it.
At one point you said that the third one would probably be your last one. Are you now, so the door is just a little bit more ajar than before?
Yeah, I mean, I just, there's no absolutes for me, so you never know what happens, I guess.
When we talked to the producers, they said that in the last ten days everything is a little bit wider open in that people have changed their minds a little bit. Are they just being producers or is that true?
Well, I mean, they, the studio will make more Spiderman movies one way or another and you know, you never know until you're there, so it's hard to say what people's mind frames are. Today it might be one thing--there's a lot that has to happen, and like I said, they'll figure out how to make them one way or another. You know, Warner Brothers with Superman and Batman, it's like, they can recast, they can bring in new people and they can reconceive things and come at it from, have a different take. Who knows? Whether we continue this story with this cast of people or not, we'll see, and how open people are, I don't really know. You don't know until there's something in front of you.
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