

He’s a working-class boy from Queens that knows struggle and loss and is deeply empathetic. "Peter and Spider-Man, those characters are all about service, to the greater good and the many.


"I mean, yes, definitely open to something if it felt right," he said when asked whether he'd be interested in another entry in The Amazing Spider-Man series.

Considered to be one of the movie's bright spots, the actor's reprisal of Peter Parker garnered a great deal of critical and audience acclaim, with many fans now clamoring for a conclusion to the Garfield trilogy. After nearly a year full of denials, Andrew Garfield finally owned up to his co-starring gig in No Way Home during an exclusive conversation with Variety (his first major interview about his return to the Marvel Universe since the movie's wide theatrical release last month). But where Maguire's Spider-Man had confessed his role in Ben's fate to May and forgiven his uncle's true killer by the end of Raimi's trilogy, the "Amazing Spider-Man" films concluded before Garfield's superhero got the chance to do either of those things.Don't count out Sony's Amazing Spider-Man just yet. It's only upon becoming a legal adult and taking control of Oscorp after his father's death that Harry rekindles ties with Peter (who knows a thing or two about having an absentee dad) - at least before things take a dark turn, which we will touch on later.īy comparison, Ben's demise in "The Amazing Spider-Man" hits the same general beats as his death in Raimi's "Spider-Man," with Ben getting shot after Peter allows an armed thief to escape in retaliation for the burglar's victim screwing him over minutes earlier. As "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" reveals, Harry's father Norman sent him off to boarding school when was eleven to focus on finding a cure for retroviral hyperplasia: the genetic terminal illness that's long plagued their family. Where Peter and Harry were high school besties in Raimi's "Spider-Man," Harry hasn't been present in Peter's life for years when "The Amazing Spider-Man" picks up and doesn't even appear in the film.
