Tobey Maguire Cut From Ang Lee's Life of Pi

Sometimes you can be too famous.

Actor Tobey Maguire has been cut from the final edit of director Ang Lee's upcoming Life of Pi, where he had a small role as a writer interviewing the other characters. According to sources for The Hollywood Reporter, "the actor's performance wasn't working -- he may have been too famous for the role." The cast is made up of relative unknowns.

The character has been recast and reshot with Prometheus actor Rafe Spall.

Maguire told THR, "I fully support Ang's decision to go a different direction for this role in Life of Pi. Ang shared a lot of the film with me, and what I saw was absolutely beautiful."

"To be consistent with the other casting choices made for the film, I decided to go with an entirely international cast. I very much admire Tobey and look forward to working with him again in the future," said Lee.

Life of Pi opens December 14.

Source : ign[dot]com

Charlie Sheen Almost Played Spider-Man

We may know Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield as the faces of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, but apparently there was once a time when Charlie Sheen nearly joined that roster.

"I had an office at Orion at the time, and I brought them Spider-Man," Sheen told Jay Mohr on the latest episode of his podcast Mohr Stories. "I said, 'Look, in a couple of years, I'll be too old to play Peter Parker.' And they said, 'Yeah, we're just thinking that cartoons are not the future, comic books are not the future.' And I said, 'But it's Spider-Man, I'm perfect.' And they were like, 'Nah, we're gonna wait.'"

But did Sheen really have the rights to the character? According to him, it didn't matter. "I had a guy in my pocket who was going to get them for me," he said. As for Orion, the actor added, "They didn't know s***."

Of course, it wasn't Charlie, but his father Martin Sheen, who would finally make it into the franchise as Uncle Ben in this year's reboot.

Via The Hollywood Reporter

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Source : ign[dot]com