Garfield's Acting Break Can Make Amazing Spider-Man 3 Even Better
The Amazing Spider-Man 3 starring Andrew Garfield never hit theaters as planned, but as Garfield plans to take an acting break, it could mean good news for a future release. Sony also had planned for The Amazing Spider-Man 4 and spin-off films featuring Spider-Man villains to build a wider universe around Garfield's Peter Parker. However, after a disappointing response to The Amazing Spider-Man 2 both at the box office and critically, all of these films were canceled.
Garfield was fired and Sony negotiated with Marvel to bring Spider-Man into the MCU in Captain America: Civil War with Tom Holland in the role. Hopes for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 were dashed until Garfield's surprise return in Spider-Man: No Way Home. In his reappearance, Garfield's Peter is still mourning the death of Gwen Stacy, but the opportunity to work with Holland and Tobey Maguire's Spider-Men gave him some needed optimism for a potential cinematic future. It also reminded viewers of just how much they had missed Garfield's version of Peter Parker/Spider-Man.
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In the years following the 2014 release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Andrew Garfield has seen no shortage of work. After an extremely successful past year, which included Garfield's standout performances in No Way Home andtick...tick...BOOM!, he said he wants to rest for a bit. This rest could be just what The Amazing Spider-Man 3 needs to produce a balanced, meaningful story. What has been consistently cited as one of the main flaws with The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is that it was rushed and overstuffed. Sony was too focused on setting up a future universe and ended up juggling too many of Spider-Man's villains and
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