'Amazing Spider-Man 3' News: Andrew Garfield Talks Some Faults That Happened With The Story For Second Film, Could Mean Creative Issues In Future Movies [VIDEO]
With a fair amount of negative response that followed this year's Spider-Man movie, it seems like the face of the franchise is behind doing the character right, but there are larger powers at work that may have poisoned the product that could have implication for the rest of the franchise.
Speaking with The Daily Beast on Wednesday, Andrew Garfield talked about the "crammed" story that Amazing Spider-Man 2 had and why there were changes behind the scenes that may have contributed to that.
"It's interesting. I read a lot of the reactions from people and I had to stop because I could feel I was getting away from how I actually felt about it. For me, I read the script that Alex [Kurtzman] and Bob [Orci] wrote, and I genuinely loved it. There was this thread running through it," Garfield said.
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"I think what happened was, through the pre-production, production, and post-production, when you have something that works as a whole, and then you start removing portions of it -- because there was even more of it than was in the final cut, and everything was related."
Garfield added that it seems like the studio has an agenda that may not align with what the creative powers want to have with the franchise.
"Once you start removing things and saying, 'No, that doesn't work,' then the thread is broken, and it's hard to go with the flow of the story," Garfield said.
"Certain people at the studio had problems with certain parts of it, and ultimately the studio is the final say in those movies because they're the tentpoles, so you have to answer to those people."
While there is stuff behind the scenes that is questionable, Garfield is clearly excited about the work ahead and still believes in the project.
"But I'll tell you this: Talking about the experience as opposed to how it was perceived, I got to work in deep scenes that you don't usually see in comic book movies, and I got to explore this orphan boy -- a lot of which was taken out, and which we'd explored more," Garfield said.
"It's interesting to do a postmortem. I'm proud of a lot of it and had a good time, and was a bit taken aback by the response."
The Amazing Spider-Man 3 is set to come out in 2018.
