The Amazing Spider-Man 2 saw director Marc Webb originally cast Shailene Woodley as Mary Jane Watson, but ultimately removed her from the final cut. The director explained that introducing a competing love interest so late in the process was difficult.
The monstrous success of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002 helped usher in the superhero era. Starring Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker and Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson, the Spider-Man trilogy became a love story as much as it was an action franchise. We quickly got a reboot in 2012 with Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man, and now Andrew Garfield as the webslinger, but this time, Mary Jane was nowhere to be found. Now, it was Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy who was the focus.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Marc Webb said it was a difficult decision to remove Woodley's performance: Mary Jane Watson Would Have Taken Away From Gwen Stacy's Death Shailene Woodley herself backed up what Webb said in an interview with Perri Nemiroff to promote Divergent, saying,"Mary Jane was in four scenes in the whole film, and it didn't make sense, they're introducing so many new characters, it really didn't make sense to introduce such a vital character to the comic books in a movie that had so much going on.
Posts Gwen Stacy is a vital character to the Spider-Man world as well, having first appeared in the comics in 1965. She's important as Peter Parker's first girlfriend, but she is also a tragic character who propels Peter forward when she dies. Gwen did have a part to play in Spider-Man 3 , but that trilogy always belonged to Peter and MJ, and Gwen felt like she was getting in the way.
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