{"id":129784,"date":"2024-05-12T22:46:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T22:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/12\/john-leguizamo-slams-marvel-for-giving-his-spider-man-villain-role-to-michael-keaton\/"},"modified":"2024-05-12T22:46:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T22:46:16","slug":"john-leguizamo-slams-marvel-for-giving-his-spider-man-villain-role-to-michael-keaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/12\/john-leguizamo-slams-marvel-for-giving-his-spider-man-villain-role-to-michael-keaton\/","title":{"rendered":"John Leguizamo Slams Marvel For Giving His Spider-Man Villain Role To Michael Keaton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Back in 2023, whereas selling <em>Violent Night<\/em>, John Leguizamo revealed that he was initially in talks to play the Vulture in 2017\u2019s <em>Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was supposed to be the Vulture,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/marvel\/news\/john-leguizamo-spider-man-vulture-michael-keaton-exclusive\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/comicbook.com\/marvel\/news\/john-leguizamo-spider-man-vulture-michael-keaton-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leguizamo advised Comicbook on the time<\/a>. \u201cWe had negotiated and I was about to play him, and they said that Michael Keaton wanted it back and they asked me if I would give it up. I said, \u2018Well, okay I guess.\u2019 They said, \u2018No, we\u2019ll work with you again, we\u2019re gonna\u2026\u2019 That\u2019s what happened there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/john-leguizamo-movie-tv-roles-encanto-ice-age-carlitos-way-2024-5\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/john-leguizamo-movie-tv-roles-encanto-ice-age-carlitos-way-2024-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a brand new interview with Business Insider<\/a>, Leguizamo nonetheless feels a sure manner about it and advised the outlet: \u201cI didn\u2019t understand it. I think another actor would\u2019ve sued because we had agreed on terms. We went through a huge negotiation period, and we had agreed on terms. I hadn\u2019t signed a contract, but we had agreed. I think those are sueable terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leguizamo added: \u201cAnd then the head of the studio called me up and said, \u2018This is terrible. I feel horrible, and would you give it up?\u2019 And I did. I felt like, if you didn\u2019t want me, I don\u2019t want to be there either, you know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if Leguizamo is speaking about <a href=\"https:\/\/heroichollywood.com\/kevin-feige-marvle-exec-mcu-rough-years\/\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marvel studios head Kevin Feige<\/a> who produced the movie, or Sony Pictures studio chief Tom Rothman, who distributed the movie.<\/p>\n<p>The complete expertise left Leguizamo feeling \u201cdissed,\u201d and he mentioned: \u201cMy grandma was like, \u2018If they don\u2019t want you at a party, don\u2019t go.\u2019 So I was like, you don\u2019t want me at the party. I don\u2019t want to be there. I felt dissed and diminished, so I didn\u2019t really want to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the door closed for Leguizamo to hitch the <a href=\"https:\/\/heroichollywood.com\/ralph-ineson-mcu-galactus-the-fantastic-four-casting\/\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MCU<\/a>, he&#8217;s nonetheless right down to be part of DC Studios saying, \u201cI would if I was offered The Riddler or some part like that. I would go back to other franchises. I mean, if you make it up to me. But then they offered me some tiny scientist in the movie. I was like, \u2018No thank you. Thank you, but no.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/em> ended up grossing $880 million worldwide on the field workplace.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Back in 2023, whereas selling Violent Night, John Leguizamo revealed that he was initially in talks to play the Vulture in 2017\u2019s Spider-Man: Homecoming. \u201cI was supposed to be the Vulture,\u201d Leguizamo advised Comicbook on the time. \u201cWe had negotiated and I was about to play him, and they said that Michael Keaton wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3199,575,3406,3404,735,828,471,337,3405,3014],"class_list":{"0":"post-129784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood","8":"tag-giving","9":"tag-john","10":"tag-keaton","11":"tag-leguizamo","12":"tag-marvel","13":"tag-michael","14":"tag-role","15":"tag-slams","16":"tag-spiderman","17":"tag-villain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}