These deep fakes are getting better – and, honestly, a lot creepier. We suppose it was inevitable that someone, somewhere would eventually put the cast of the 2002 Spider-Man movie in Marvel’s Spider-Man, and that someone is YouTube user BabyZone. Tobey Maguire features as the titular web-slinger, while Kirsten Dunst looks perfectly natural as MJ Watson. Willem Defoe also fits in well as Norman Osborn, although Beyond: Two Souls prepared us for the uncanny valley there.
Hilariously, this is not the first deep fake based on Marvel’s Spider-Man, as Tom Holland’s likeness has also been attempted in less convincing form:
You probably need to be of a certain age to appreciate Tobey Maguire as the wall-crawler, but that period of PlayStation 3 fonts, upside-down snogs, free PSP UMDs, and Activision licensed games is etched into this author’s memory forever.
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Brilliant, he’s still the best Spider-Man to me. Really hope he makes it into the Spider-Verse sequel.
Kirsten Dunst fits in a little too well.
Its the real Spiderman its Tobey.
This needs to be an official patch.
Sometimes, I feel like I am the Bomb Squad.
It is crazy how good this technology (and the voice one) is getting.
@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Maguire is the best of the three for me. Does both Spiderman and Peter Parker extremely well.
I personally never got the hype around Tobey Maguire. His attempt at playing a high schooler makes John Travolta in Grease look 16 by comparison.
@TheFrenchiestFry He understands that Peter Parker is supposed to be an absolute dork. The other two are essentially ‘too cool’. Andrew Garfield was woefully mischaracterised as a brooding sk8r boi and Tom Holland is good but I just can’t buy him being unpopular in school.
@nessisonett Actually the whole being a loser thing was kind of created by the Raimi films. In Lee/Ditko's run after he started out as Spider-Man, he was a wallflower who was socially impressionable but personally elected never to go out to parties or interact with more popular people even though girls like MJ, Gwen Stacy and Liz Allan in the Ultimate comics were clearly into him. He chose not do stuff like dating or going out with them for a while because he didn't want to put them in harm's way due to his line of work. He isn't actually that much of a loser. He puts on that facade in school because it was easy for him given he was one of Midtown High's only booksmart and academically dedicated students, which is what made him a bullying target for people like Flash Thompson.
Holland gives off that exact kind of vibe for me, even if he's more in line with Ultimate Peter with a bit of Miles Morales. The problem with Tobey is that he's too much of a loser, while Andrew Garfield was way too much of a rule breaking punk doing stuff like skating in the hallways at school. Holland is the first time any of the live action actors properly captured that Peter is actually capable of having strokes of bad luck without literally being a loser with no friends. He's meant to be in a world of pain but I'd argue the Raimi films took it a bit too far at times. Both of his closest friends act like complete jerks to him on multiple occasions and it felt abrupt in a lot of areas
Deep fakes are reaching crazy levels way faster then I can handle lol.
@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L I just love Maguire and while I can see how he doesn't look like he has that quippy liner feel to him, at least he does quippy one liners instead of none at all. Andrew Garfield Spiderman is the one I dislike the most and especially his Peter Parker. Tom Holland certainly has a good mix of both though. The first 2 films are my absolute favorite of any Spiderman movie. 3 would've been better if they had cut out Venom but sadly Raimi was forced to work with a character he(and even states it) didn't understand. It was just supposed to be Sandman and New Goblin. Also yes Amazing Spiderman 2 was just terrible.
Maguire didn't do it for me, he looked too geeky to be Spidey for me. I grew up in the 90's when Peter was more streetwise, Tom Holland does both parts well.
As for these deep fakes, it creeps me out a bit.
@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Yeah he'd be great, especially when Into the Spiderverse came out and Spiderman Miles Morales is coming out for the PS5
This is brilliant!Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst will always be THE Spiderman and Mary Jane.
To be honest I haven't really enjoyed a Spiderman film since.
@nessisonett I don`t know why people don`t know this but the blond Spider-man in Spiderman into the spider verse was actually Tobey Maguire`s version.
@PeakyBlinder Except they were voiced by Chris Pine. I did watch the movie, they had plenty nods to the Raimi movies but it’s the multiverse, universes can be as similar or as dissimilar as they come. There’s still a place for Tobey Maguire to turn up in a sequel.
Tobey looks a bit weird... but Krinsten looks super good, way better then the original MJ from the game.
0/10. I was hoping for, "Who am I? Are you sure you wanna know?"
@PeakyBlinder I just viewed those as references. I don't really think the intention was to imply that Chris Pine's Peter Parker was the Tobey Spider-Man at all. They're just cute references to his history. Much like how The LEGO Batman Movie satirized a lot of tropes from the characters' film incarnations
@nessisonett But how will they now introduce him ? To introduce a new character, they need a background story which was used by Chris Pine`s version. The only way they could include Tobey Maguire now could be as a voice actor for another new Spidey we don`t know much about.
@PeakyBlinder They can just have the Raimi Spider-Man with the suit. Nobody will care that they had references in the first one with Pine’s Spider-Man. For all we know, every Spider-Man has done the train, the upside-down kiss and the dreadful dance, due to the multiverse theory. There are an infinite number of universes, therefore it stands to reason that some are more similar than others. We didn’t see every event from the Raimiverse and that universe had a female Doc Ock. Miles and Spider-Pine exist in a separate universe from Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man, with some similarities.
@nessisonett @nessisonett my feelings exactly. Maguire looked liked a skinny shrimpy dork that would get pushed around at school and would never argue back. Garfield was way too cool to play Parker, had a kinda suave about him and i feel Holland, whilst looking young is way too buff in the upper body. As far as spiderman goes i couldnt say but Peter Parker? Im with you on Maguire.
@Kidfunkadelic83 Agree so much you tagged me twice 😎
@nessisonett 😂😂 i actually agreed even more with you but must have missed the third tag off by mistake 😝
Tobey's Spider-Man movies were the only one watchable.
@Incarna fax
Kirsten Dunst pretty much sucks in everything. No need to fake her in. She's about as good of an actress as Spider-Man 3 was a movie.
Ha, that was pretty good.
Kirsten Dunst and Tobey with Raimi directing was especially good. Those first 2 spider man films were fantastic. Haven't watched any since.
Tom Holland's face is far more convincing than Toby's on that body (and with that hair). He's just the only one deepfaked in that video, so it stands out more.
For me the absolute worst Spider-Man is Andrew Garfield. Damn that guy was overreacting and cringey.
Toby and Tom are my favorite. Alfred Molina makes a perfect Doc Ock and Defoe is the definitive Goblin!!!
The original Spidey and still the best. Sorry kids but Holland just doesn't do it for me and why he was cast as young Nathan Drake is beyond me. If they had to go young they'd have been better off casting Joe Keery from Stranger Things.
Also, wow that is really impressive and spine-tingling stuff. It's also slightly disturbing as well!
@vegeta11 So so wrong.
The Virgin Suicides and Melancholia say otherwise. Oh wait, you probably only watch comic book films.
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