Andrew Garfield recently told GQ UK that rumors claiming he has signed on to star in Marvel’s “Spider-Man 4″ are not true, although he is blatantly aware that no comic book movie fan is going to believe him. After all, Garfield spent all of 2021 denying he’d be back as the web-slinger in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” Then he popped up opposite Tom Holland and Tobey Maguire’s iterations of Spider-Man, which powered “No Way Home” to $1.9 billion at the worldwide box office.
“I’m gonna disappoint you. Yeah, no,” Garfield told the publication about “Spider-Man 4” rumors. “But I know no one’s gonna trust anything I say from now on.”
When asked if he’d be interested in coming back as Spider-Man or signing on to star in another big-budget Hollywood franchise, the Oscar nominee answered: “If it felt in line with my soul and was gonna be fun. Maybe I’m gonna have like five kids at some point, and I’m gonna need to start saving up for the school tuition or something.”
Rumors have also circulated online that Garfield will be reuniting with his “Silence” director Martin Scorsese to play Jesus in a new movie, but the actor said “it’s not true to my knowledge.” Garfield would love the chance to make another Scorsese movie, but “you can’t just keep waiting for Scorsese to call, because he makes a movie every three years and a lot of the time Leo DiCaprio is in it.”
Garfield debuted as Peter Parker in 2012’s “The Amazing Spider-Man,” but his tenure as the superhero was cut short when 2014’s “Amazing Spider-Man 2” underperformed at the box office. The actor told Esquire magazine last year that he was “left dangling” when his Spider-Man role came to such an abrupt end. Returning for “No Way Home” was a homecoming of sorts.
“I thought Tobey is not going to want to do that. He’ll act every 10 years much to my chagrin, and I’ve shared that to him,” Garfield admitted about his “No Way Home” doubts. “When I heard that he was kind of leaning in I thought it was either going to be the greatest thing in the world or the worst thing in the world. I am so grateful because it was the most joyful thing ever. All the pressure was on Tom.”
Garfield added to Esquire at the time that “I would 100% come back [as Spider-Man] if it was the right thing, if it’s additive to the culture, if there’s a great concept or something that hasn’t been done before that’s unique and odd and exciting and that you can sink your teeth into. I love that character, and it brings joy. If part of what I bring is joy, then I’m joyful in return.”
As for “Spider-Man 4,” Holland said on the “Rich Roll Podcast” last month that the pitch for the movie was “excellent,” adding: “The writers are doing a great job. I read it three weeks ago and it really lit a fire in me. Zendaya and I sat down and read it together and we at times were bouncing around the living room like this is a real movie worthy of the fans’ respect.”
