Ok, this has to be one of the strangest sources for movie news we’ve had in a while, but buried in a recent profile by The Globe And Mail of hockey player Mike Comrie, and thanks to the eagle eyes of Latino Review, it was revealed that among the contents of his kitchen table of late was a script with the title “Spider-Man.”
Of course, speculation is high, but facts are minimal at this point except that lines were highlighted in yellow for a character simply called “girl.” Is Comrie’s wife, Hilary Duff, eyeing a leading lady role in Marc Webb’s film? Or is it another, smaller part? If the former, she’s joining a long list of actresses vying for the part who last we heard include Imogen Poots (“Cracks,” Cary Fukunaga’s “Jane Eyre”), Ophelia Lovibond (“Nowhere Boy,” William Monahan’s upcoming “London Boulevard”), Teresa Palmer (“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” the upcoming “I Am Number Four”) and Emma Roberts (“It’s Kind Of A Funny Story,” “What’s Wrong With Virginia”).
We’ll leave the guesswork to others only to say that after landing someone like Andrew Garfield to play Peter Parker, sending a script to Hilary Duff seems to take casting in the totally opposite direction. It seems she’s simply one of many taking auditions for the film, so Spidey fans needn’t get too upset. Yet.