I'd just laugh if Webb gave into pressures and chucked the actress for being too unattractive.

What's make it worse is that the actress allegedly filmed scenes as MJ, but they're all going to be cut from the film :p

Haha I feel sorry for the poor actress but they are right, part of MJ's character is how sexy she is in contrast to Peter. I know that might be muted a little now Peter is a sexy hipster but still.

The same thing annoyed me about the casting of Amy Adams as Lois Lane. Lois is supposed to be sexy and ferocious, her sex appeal is part of her character no matter what the shitty excuse for feminists we have on the internet say, not look like your best friends Mum.

Seriously? That's a pretty large cut!

The problem is that introducing MJ will kind of give a Lois Lane vs. Lana Lang sort of thing.
It makes Peter seem shallow, makes him only care about the looks of the other character, despite knowing the first one longer and essentially having an established relationship with the first.

While Gwen was conveniently killed off in the comics so that Peter wasn't pining over two women, I'm unsure how they're gonna handle it in the movies.

They're also recasting Mary Jane, so there might be more to this that we don't know.

At least with MJ out of the picture ASM2 should at least have enough free space to let Gwen die with dignity.


And no, that doesn't count as a spoiler! :P

Oh so they are recasting her? Looks like my joke is right.

So wait they are planning to kill of gwen

I think she did have the potential to be a pretty MJ. At least prettier than Kirsten Dunst was (not dissing on her, just that she was a different kind of pretty compared to MJ).

At any rate, I'm fine with leaving MJ out until they need her. Develop Gwen first and foremost and let MJ come in after Gwen's (inevitable) death.

A relatively famous comic plot is Gwen Stacy's death.
So killing her off isn't exactly a spoiler.