Will Bryce Dallas Howard Return as Gwen Stacy in SPIDER-MAN?

Published: August 16, 2022

Will Bryce Dallas Howard Return as Gwen Stacy in SPIDER-MAN?

By Movieguide® Contributor

Bryce Dallas Howard, fresh off her JURASSIC PARK success, is eying one of her former roles as something she may revisit.

Howard played Gwen Stacy in 2007’s SPIDER-MAN 3, nominated for the Epiphany Prize® and the Movieguide® award for Best Movie for Mature Audiences.

“That would be so fun,” Howard said of reprising her role in a future project. “Since we are exploring multiverses — and by ‘we’ are exploring it, they are exploring it, and I’m enjoying it. I would always be game.”

“With Gwen Stacy,” she added. “Emma Stone, in my perspective as a fan, is the definitive Gwen Stacy in that universe.”

Stone played the character in both AMAZING SPIDER-MAN movies in 2012 and 2014. Her co-star, Andrew Garfield, appeared as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME. Tobey Maguire, who played the same role opposite Howard in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies also appeared in the 2021 movie.

Movieguide®’s review of SPIDER-MAN 3 reads:

SPIDER-MAN 3 begins with Spider-Man, a.k.a. Peter Parker, surveying the crime-free paradise he has created in the city. There’s trouble in paradise, however. Peter is getting a big head from all the public adulation for Spider-Man. This endangers his relationship with M.J., the girl of his dreams. Also, Peter’s friend Harry takes up the Green Goblin mantle to get revenge against him for the death of Harry’s father. Meanwhile, a new villain shows up, an escaped convict who may be the person who killed Peter’s beloved Uncle Ben and who, due to a science experiment gone wrong, turns into the Sandman. Finally, a malevolent, intelligent black sticky goo from space latches onto one of Peter’s Spider-Man suits, turning him and his alter ego into a bad guy.

SPIDER-MAN 3 is not as thrilling as the second movie, but it still gives moviegoers a wonderful treat of action, humor, adventure, suspense, and spectacle that firmly endorses hope, faith, sacrifice, forgiveness, compassion, and love. Best of all, SPIDER-MAN 3 takes the Christian allegories of the first two movies and transforms them into an overtly Christian, inspiring message of good.