January of this year things had hit their peak with Raimi. Sony Pictures could not come to any type of agreement with production and script issues and the 2012 release date. So Sony announces that they are scrapping the Spider-Man 4 project with Sam Raimi and plan to reboot the entire franchise with a brand new director and nearly entirely new cast. (This just happened to come at the time when they almost had John Malcovich on board to play Vulture! Blast!)
All the big hitters then come out to play. James Cameron, David Fincher, Marc Webb and Wes Anderson all were in talks to pursue the Spider-Man 4 film. Somehow Marc Webb pulled it out of his ass to nail the job. Webb also directed 500 Days of Summer and a random episode of The Office.
Sony had decided that they were going to adapt the 4th installment to focus on Peter Parker as a teenager and battling being a hero (wasn't that what the first one was?). They put Alvin Stargent to work on re-writing the script to focus on someone young. Several actors were in the pool to play Peter Parker including Jamie Bell ("Jumper"), Alden Ehrenreich ("Somewhere"), Frank Dillane ("Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"), Josh Hutcherson ("Cirque du Freak") and Andrew Garfield ("The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus").
Andrew Garfield will be Peter Parker. If you do not know Andrew Garfield, I suggest you get to know him. Andrew played opposite of Johnny Depp, Colin Farrel, and Heath Ledger in the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. He also killed it in Spike Jonze's I'm here.
If you would like to get more familiar with Mr. Garfield prior to Spider-Man 4, i suggest you all take a look at David Fincher's project The Social Network coming later this year.
Andrew Garfield with Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
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