Peter Parker actor Andrew Garfield came forward and talked about the primary reason why "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" failed in the box office in an interview with the Daily Beast.
Those who have seen the second installment of the "Spider-Man" reboot franchise may have been enamored by the cinematic effects, actions scenes and of course seeing a masked superhero fight off bad guys.
However, many critics and film viewers alike felt the "Spider-Man 2" lacked linearity especially in terms of its plot, according to review by Cinema Blend. In addition, the site pointed out that the film featured so many villains that it didn't have enough space fully develop each of the characters' stories.
But for Garfield, this isn't the fault of the director, Marc Webb, or the film's screenplay writers, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The actor believes the film was poorly handled by Sony, the studio behind it.
With so many important scenes cut from the film, Garfield thinks movie fans only got to see an incoherent version of "Spider-Man 2."
"For me, I read the script that Alex and Bob [Orci] wrote, and I genuinely loved it. There was this thread running through it," he said.
"I think what happened was, through the pre-production, production, and post-production, when you have something that works as a whole, and then you start removing portions of it-because there was even more of it than was in the final cut, and everything was related," he added.
"Once you start removing things and saying, 'No, that doesn't work,' then the thread is broken, and it's hard to go with the flow of the story," Garfield continued. "Certain people at the studio had problems with certain parts of it, and ultimately the studio is the final say in those movies because they're the tentpoles."
As to what those rejected scenes were about, Garfield hinted that one of them involves showing a young Parker, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
According to the actor, reading about Parker growing up as an orphan in Kurtzman and Orci's original draft gave him a lot of emotional resources to work with to portray the wall-crawling hero.
