That’s right, webheads. According to The Hollywood Reporter, chain-smoking stand-up comedian and star of FX’s Rescue Me Denis Leary is in negotiations to play Captain George Stacy in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot directed by Mark Webb. The Reporter had this to say:
Denis Leary is negotiations to play the father of Emma Stone in Columbia’s new Spider-Man movie.
Stone is playing the love interest of Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) and Leary will play police captain George Stacy, her father who frequently came into contact with the web-slinging superhero.
In Marvel Comics lore, Stacy perished in an accident during a battle between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus, an event that led Gwen Stacy to hate the hero.
Columbia and director Marc Webb are keeping the James Vanderbilt and Alvin Sargent-penned script under lock and key so it’s uncertain how faithful to the core story Leary’s version of the character will be.
Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach and Laura Ziskin are producing the movie, which begins shooting in December.
WME-repped Leary hasn’t appeared in a theatrical movie since 2002’s The Secret Lives of Dentists, although he has been starring in the acclaimed drama Rescue Me since 2004. He appeared in HBO’s Recount and has continued to voice the character of Diego the sabertooth in the Ice Age movies.
Thanks to Crawl Space MB poster Kassady86 for pointing us to the article, and feel free to jump onto the board and discuss the story in that thread here!
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I love Leary’s work and hopefully he’ll be more like his character in The Thomas Crown Affair than the one in Rescue Me. How was he on The Job?
Interesting. Hope we get to peak behind the curtain soon and keep the cosmic trigger happy.
Well considering it’s benn written about in the past how Ultimate Spider-Man in a major influene for the film, This is great casting. The Ultimate Capt/ Stacy was a younger man who looked alot like Leary. Google a picture of the two and it’s pretty close. Now if Marc Webb could take a diiferent approach to the music score and hopefully get someone outside the “hollywood box” to compose the music for the film.