Garfield wants Spider-Man to get properly strange
Andrew Garfield would consider playing Spider-Man again if the project explored an unexpected genre and offered something creatively different.
During an appearance on The Playlist’s “The Discourse” podcast with Mike DeAngelo, Garfield was asked what another chapter for his Peter Parker would need. His answer set a considerably higher bar than turning up through another glowing multiverse doorway.
“I would need it to be very, very odd,” Garfield said. “I would need it to be very strange, and I would need it to be completely unconventional and almost—I wouldn’t say boring—but I would want it to be just completely unexpected, like a genre of Spider-Man that you’ve never seen before, that feels very left field.”
As our sister site IGN Middle East reported in its coverage of Garfield’s condition, the actor remains open to another Spider-Man film when the idea is sufficiently unusual. He did not announce a new project or say that discussions were under way.
The road trip movie was an idea, not a tease
Garfield’s Spider-Man road trip suggestion was a hypothetical example of the kind of unconventional film that might interest him.
“And I don’t even know what that would be,” he continued. “Maybe like a road trip movie.” The phrasing is important: Garfield was thinking aloud, not cryptically unveiling Sony Pictures’ next production between podcast questions.
A road movie would certainly move his Peter Parker away from familiar blockbuster machinery. It could place the emphasis on character, conversation, and whatever exactly happens when a superhero must spend several hours looking for somewhere safe to park.
The question arrived amid recurring online theories that Garfield might appear in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. His response offers a fairly direct reality check for that speculation: another cameo alone does not appear to be the creative challenge he is seeking.
His Peter Parker already received meaningful closure
Garfield’s reluctance to return without a strong idea reflects where Spider-Man: No Way Home left his version of Peter Parker.
Garfield first played the character in The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012 and returned for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014. His surprise appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home in 2021 allowed the character to revisit his grief and receive a second ending after the earlier series concluded.
That makes another appearance creatively trickier. Repeating the same emotional beats would weaken the closure No Way Home provided, while a cameo built mainly around audience recognition would offer Garfield little of the strange, left-field territory he described.
The comments came while Garfield was promoting The Magic Faraway Tree, a family fantasy film in which he and Claire Foy play parents Tim and Polly. Their family relocates to the English countryside, where the children discover a magical tree leading to fantastical worlds. Ben Gregor directed the film from a screenplay by Simon Farnaby.
Garfield will probably keep receiving Spider-Man questions, because the internet remains undefeated at assigning actors secret superhero jobs. At least his answer points towards a return with an actual creative reason behind it—and possibly a very uncomfortable amount of luggage.
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