Andrew Garfield Blames Studio for 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' Sucking; Praises 'Sinister Six'

Despite earning more than $700M worldwide, Sony's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is considered a huge failure. It's generally with the second film that a franchise starts to gain its legs but that didn't happen in this case as audiences didn't care for it and and the domestic box office was weak by genre standards. It seemed as if Sony had begun looking forward to the expansion of the franchise and the film's story was sacrificed to that effort. And it sounds like Andrew Garfield has similar feelings about the studio's meddling. While talking to The Daily Beast, he blames Sony for removing parts of the film that he felt worked best.

Garfield: “I read the script that Alex [Kurtzman] and Bob [Orci] wrote, and I genuinely loved it. There was this thread running through it. "[But] once you start removing things and say, ‘no, that doesn’t work,’ then the thread is broken, and it’s hard to go with the flow of the story. Certain people at the studio had problems with certain parts of it, and ultimately the studio [has] the final say in those movies because they’re the tentpoles, so you have to answer to those people.”

And it's probably a safe bet those things they removed were so we could get more of Rhino, Electro, and Green Goblin, three villains that did not work in the movie at all. And yet they're all expected to return for Sinister Six, which sees Spidey's fiercest villains all in one place. Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) is on board to direct that one, but Garfield's participation has been something of a mystery. While at TIFF hyping his new drama, 99 Homes, Garfield kept his involvement in Sinister Six up in the air....

Garfield:  “I can say I’m really excited about Drew Goddard, who’s going to be writing and directing ‘The Sinister Six’ movie. And whether I’m involved in that or not is kind of immaterial."

It's probably not immaterial to Sony who will definitely want their biggest star on board in some way, even if just in a cameo.  They'll probably want him for Venom, as well, a character last seen in Spider-Man 3 played with comic awfulness by Topher Grace. Alex Kurtzman is writing and directing the film based on Spidey's symbiotic nemesis, and he offered up to MTV his approach to the character....

Kurtzman: “The idea…is that you can do things with Venom that you can’t do with Spider-Man. Venom is the representation of every line that will get crossed... he’s a much darker character.”

Uh, no shit? Honestly, he didn't tell us anything we didn't know there. What should have been asked is which version of Venom we're going to see. Will it be the original Eddie Brock version? Or the current one with Spidey's friend Flash Thompson as a more militaristic antihero Venom?