Emma Roberts Could Be The Love Interest In The New Spiderman Movie

Rumor is that actress Emma Roberts could possibly be Gwen Stacy, the girl that Andrew Garfield falls for in the upcoming Spiderman Reboot movie which is not scheduled for release until July of 2012.

In case you were unaware, just about everyone was let go from the Spiderman franchise for this new version of the webslinger. Out are Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker aka Spiderman, and Sam Raimi who directed the first 3 movies.

Emma Roberts is just one of several young actresses up for the Stacy role opposite Garfield. Here is a list of those under consideration:

Imogen Poots - who played the young Valerie in V For Vendetta and Tammy in 28 Weeks Later.
Ophelia Lovibond - another English actress who has lots of film experience.
Lilly Collins - Recent seen on 2 episodes of 90210 and about to appear in Romero & Juliet. Very pretty if a little on the lean side. Also English - is that a requirement of being Peter Parker's love interest?
Teresa Palmer - A new actress from Australia. Recently in The Sorcerer's Apprentice and was also cast in The Grudge 2.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Winstead was in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World as Ramona Flowers. She's also a part of the remake of The Thing which I wanna see when it comes out next year.

Roberts is of course the front runner at this time having been in 2007's Nancy Drew and currently filming Scream 4.

Tobey Maguire; Sam Raimi Out ~ Won't Be In Spidey 4!

The word is that both out for Spiderman 4, with production pushed back to 2012 as the braintrust at Sony scrambles to rustle up a Peter Parker and director.

Raimi helmed the first three Spiderman blockbusters all with Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spiderman battling against various super-villans garnering bucketloads of money at the box office (and in after sales like merchandise), but that's all over. There was some talk of Maguire being in the upcoming version of The Hobbit, but Maguire quashed that saying he hadn't spoken with anyone involved and his participation was simply gossip.

Because of problems with the latest installment of the Spiderman franchise (supposedly script re-writes), production was stalled, and Marvel Studios started pushing to get the new Thor movie, starring Australian newcomer Chris Hemsworth as the God of Thunder, fast-tracked. Filming on that movie began yesterday.

Don't know what to make of this move by the studios. There are rumors that Spidey 4 is supposed to be more about teenaged Peter Parker, and Maguire, 33, may be a little long in the tooth to play a youthful Spiderman. It seems sort of like they are trying to take a page from Batman Begins, with a new take on Spiderman's origins, BUT, wasn't that all taken care of in Spiderman back in 2002 when Maguire took on the role?

As far as Maguire himself, he has tons of films lined up: The Details, a dark comedy due out this year, as well as The Crusaders a story about segregation. He also has at least ten more films in the pipeline for the next several years, as well as the critically acclaimed Brothers which was just recently released.

Raimi also has a very busy itinerary for the next five years, with 3 movies out this year, two more the next and several television projects on the backburner.

Guess we'll need to get more information before we find out the real cause of the split between Raimi/Maguire and Sony. What's your take on this mess?