Ok, this has to be one of the strangest sources for movie news we’ve had in a while, but buried in a recent profile by The Globe And Mail of hockey player Mike Comrie, and thanks to the eagle eyes of Latino Review, it was revealed that among the contents of his kitchen table of late was a script with the title “Spider-Man.”
Of course, speculation is high, but facts are minimal at this point except that lines were highlighted in yellow for a character simply called “girl.” Is Comrie’s wife, Hilary Duff, eyeing a leading lady role in Marc Webb’s film? Or is it another, smaller part? If the former, she’s joining a long list of actresses vying for the part who last we heard include Imogen Poots (“Cracks,” Cary Fukunaga’s “Jane Eyre”), Ophelia Lovibond (“Nowhere Boy,” William Monahan’s upcoming “London Boulevard”), Teresa Palmer (“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” the upcoming “I Am Number Four”) and Emma Roberts (“It’s Kind Of A Funny Story,” “What’s Wrong With Virginia”).
We’ll leave the guesswork to others only to say that after landing someone like Andrew Garfield to play Peter Parker, sending a script to Hilary Duff seems to take casting in the totally opposite direction. It seems she’s simply one of many taking auditions for the film, so Spidey fans needn’t get too upset. Yet.
Sounds like she's reading for a friend of either Mary Jane's or Peter Parker's. Why would MJ's dialogue be marked with the generic "Girl"??
She's completely wrong for the part of MJ anyway.
He still doesn't look like Peter Parker…
Mary Jane isn't the love interest in the new Spider-Man, ATM: http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/08/contenders-for-love-interest-in-spider.html
Keta, like you I live in the midwest (mitten)and I'm not looking forward to the nasty white stuff. I got to miss out on some of last years nastiness-clearing the sidewalks at work because of eye surgery. So I got to stay home and let hubby clean our walks only going out to walk the dog-couldn't do any lifting. This summer I tried to catch up on some of my reading in our air conditioned house when the heat got too bad and I will probably hibernate as much as I can when not at work with hot coffee and good books-stocked up on both paper and ebooks lately.