Hollywood Insider : Editor wanted for Daily Bugle
By Hollywood Insider | October 26, 2010
Writing to you on a laptop in the Coffee Bean adjacent to the Roosevelt. Chewbacca sits a few inches away.
Marc Webb is meeting with actors at the moment, filling the remaining slots in his 2012
Spider-Man reboot.
Francine Mailer is working through the night helping Webb find the remaining actors for the remaining roles. She reaches out to agents with an offer to meet for “Untitled Teen Action Adventure Movie”, apparently.
The latest piece of the puzzle they want to lock in place is J.Jonah Jameson. It’s apparently proving quite a difficult role to cast - no big surprise, right?
Of the dozen or so actors currently under consideration (seems to be as many up for this job as there were Spidey himself!) for the role of the Daily Bugle’s gruff editor is John Slattery, one of the stars of
Mad Men. Slattery previously worked with Marvel on
Iron Man 2, in which he played the title character’s father, and reportedly has a good relationship there. Can Slattery do grizzled though? that, I don’t know. Could work. Sam Elliot’s name I’ve also heard mentioned, but I don’t know whether that got any further than an inquiry as to his availability (but again, someone has worked with Marvel already; in this case,
Ghost Rider). He might be fun.
Webb and the team are reading these actors, and likely more, for the part over the next few weeks - no doubt complete with cigar and mustache - so a J.Jonah Jameson announcement should be just around the corner. Personally gunning for Stephen Lang (surely he’s in the mix!?)… or a relative unknown (Gotts to be someone out there from the theater world) who embodies the character down to a tee? After all, it’s not a part that really calls for a super big name - just a good, fun impersonator.
Whoever gets the gig is going to be hard pressed topping J.K Simmons’ turn as Jameson in the first three
Spider-Man movies, though.. don’t you agree!?
Sam would rock!
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