![]() Sheen admits that he hadn’t yet acquired the rights - though he “ had a guy in pocket who was going to get them.”Ī few years after Sheen’s brush with superhero-dom, Orion – which brought us Oscar winners like Platoon (which, incidentally, featured a young Sheen) and The Silence of the Lambs – fell into bankruptcy. I said, 'Look, in a couple of years, I'll be too old to play Peter Parker.' And they said, 'Yeah, we're just thinking that cartoons are not the future, comic books are not the future.' And I said, 'But it's Spider-Man, I'm perfect.' And they were like, 'Nah, we're gonna wait.'" "I had an office at Orion at the time, and I brought them Spider-Man. As it turns out, though, none other than Charlie Sheen almost beat Maguire to the original role.Īppearing on Jay Mohr’s new podcast Mohr Stories, Sheen – whose series Anger Management just received a massive 90-episode pickup – described the circumstances that nearly led to him donning the iconic red and blue costume: Fans were skeptical when it was first announced that Andrew Garfield – best known for his memorable supporting work in The Social Network – would take over the role of Peter Parker in this year’s The Amazing Spider-man ( and subsequent sequels).Īfter all, Tobey Maguire had portrayed the webslinger in Sam Raimi’s smash Spider-man trilogy - becoming "the" Peter Parker for many movie fans.
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