'The Amazing Spider-Man 3' Cast News: Andrew Garfield to Be Replaced?

The 'Amazing Spider-Man 3', the final installment in the reboot of the webslinger based series, may experience a few tangles in its web as details were revealed about how Sony plans to reinvent the character once again. Apparently, Sony is taking lead actor Andrew Garfield and director Marc Webb out of the picture.

With the second film in the series plunging into a nosedive during it's release, Sony executives were supposedly planning to re-license the franchise to Marvel and inevitably to Disney, to allow the web-slinging hero to appear in the third installment of the 'Captain America' movie series.

The recent email hacks from Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal's inbox revealed further details on how the media conglomerate plans to fix the franchise.

Sony Pictures also planned to hire the Russo brothers of 'Captain America: Winter Soldier', to direct the 'Amazing Spider-Man 3' with the story moving away from Peter Parker's love interests and more on to the challenges he would face as he moves towards adulthood. The past five spider-man movies have dealt with and exhausted much of Peter Parker's lovelife.

Regarding Garfield's future in the film, it was reported that his critical remarks on the cause of the recent low returns of the spider-man movie sequel ticked Sony Pictures executives off and have caused him to get the boot. Garfield said that "certain people at the studio had problems with certain parts of [the movie], and ultimately the studio is the final say in [it] because they're the tentpoles."

Spider-Man first appeared 52 years ago starting with the comic series, 'The Amazing Spiderman', before hitting television in an animated series, and later the movies, with Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker in the first trilogy before the latest reboot in 2012.

The news on the planned reboot of the spider-man franchise was part of a set of leaked emails from Sony Pictures executives, known as "Sony hacks."