The Hiring, Firing and Re-Hiring of Spider-Man

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 13, 2003 @06:49AM from the doing-the-things-that-a-spiderman-can dept.

Obiwan Kenobi writes "Remember that rumor that Tobey McGuire was fired and Jake Gyllenhaal was going to be Spider-Man? Well, it's true. According to the LA Times, McGuire's unwillingness to reveal the extent of his back injuries from his last project (Seabiscuit) resulted in a huge power struggle that incurred the wrath of Universal president Ron Meyer (whose daughter is 'coincidentally' dating McGuire), a pissed off Sam Raimi, and a now-fired agent. Interesting read about the politics of making a big budget blockbuster." Really just a gossipy story frankly, but McGuire seems to be in for the sequel despite the back problems.

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A quality day on slashdot by Gortbusters.org · 2003-05-13 06:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

first we have a review of a freebsd reference manual, and now some mindless celebrity gossip!

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Leave this type of story.... by UnixRevolution · 2003-05-13 07:04 · Score: 1, Offtopic

For Star or Entertainment or People or the other 3000 tabloids and mindless mass-market celebrity magazines to cover.

Give us a story on overclocking or something.

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Re:Huh? by dalamcd · 2003-05-13 08:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What? The ending to Brazil was great!
Did you turn it off in disgust or something? You really shouldn't.
dalamcd

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