From Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy made Tobey Maguire forever synonymous with the crime-fighting web-slinger, but if Yellowstone star Wes Bentley interested, we could very well have had a completely different Peter Parker. Released in 2002, that first Spidey movie came before the comic book movie boom that would eventually sweep Hollywood. In recent years Spider-Man: No Way Homewhich featured Maguire’s Spider-Man alongside those of Tom Holland and Andrew Maguire is one of the highest-grossing films of all time.
Bentley couldn’t have predicted any of this when the offer to play Spidey came his way before Maguire was officially cast. For better or for worse, Bentley just wasn’t interested in the part. He points to a deterioration in the quality of the Batman movies, culminating in widespread film Batman and Robin, to suggest that the future of comic book adaptations seemed much grim at the time. That made him too nervous to accept the part, as Bentley recalls in a new interview for Jimmy KimmelLive!.
“From what I understood, I had the offer—one of the offers, or the first offer. Whether I did or not, I wouldn’t… At that point, we’d come off the Batman disaster. You know, the last few Batman movies weren’t great. Comic books didn’t look good. It was nervy.”
Puzzled, Kimmel asked again if Bentley For real didn’t want to play Spider-Man, and the actor added:
“I didn’t. And I like comic book movies, but at the time I was looking for — I really wanted to do things that weren’t comic book movies.”
Spider-Man is now a widely coveted role
Sam Raimi’s success Spider-Man dramatically changed the perception some actors had when it came to being cast as the Marvel superhero. When Raimi parted ways with the franchise with spiderman 4 When he got screwed, it was time to cast another actor The awesome Spider-Man. We now know that Andrew Garfield got the part, and Joe Jonas recently talked about how stupid he was not to get the part, saying he was lobbying to get it done.
“Right now you’re destroyed or defeated. But you realize this person was brilliant,” Jonas told Variety, admitting that he later realized it was the right decision. “I remember years ago when I was ready for Spider-Man and I was so, so excited and it was the year Andrew Garfield got it. Obviously he was the right one.”
For now, Tom Holland is Spider-Man in the MCU. When it’s time to make another one Spider-Man movie starring the next actor, chances are there won’t be a shortage of interested actors lining up to audition.