A New Spider -Man?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Director Marc Webb has been enticing actors in his web(b) as he searches for a new Peter Parker to star in Columbia's "Spider-Man" reboot. He has been meeting actors quietly for several months, but the list has narrowed in the past week or two.

See the candidates for the new web-slinger:

*Josh Hutcherson: The youngest actor of the bunch -- he turns 18 this year -- is also the one with the most experience. The past six years alone have seen the Kentucky-born kid rack up credits with key roles in Jon Favreau's Zathura, drama Bridge to Terabithia, the upcoming Red Dawn remake, and starred with Brendan Fraser in Journey to the Center of the Earth.

*Andrew Garfield: The L.A.-born actor had a short stint on a BBC TV series called "Sugar Rush," but gained notices for playing a young reporter in a gritty British TV movie trilogy titled "Red Riding." The 27-year-old also appeared in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

*Frank Dillane: The 19-year-old Brit's main credit is last year's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,  where he played a young Tom Riddle.

*Alden Ehrenreich: The 20-year-old Los Angeles native who was "discovered" by Spielberg, who saw a comedy video starring Ehrenreich at a bat mitzvah of his daughter's friend. A couple of TV appearances followed, but the actor's next big leap came when he was cast by Francis Ford Coppola in 2009's "Tetro."

*Jaime Bell: The 24-year-old English actor, who made his film debut playing the title character in "Billy Elliot," has been doing the proper British actor thing in period movies such as Nicholas Nickleby and Jane Eyre (he's also appeared in Hollywood movies such as Peter Jackson's King Kong and Ed Zwick's Defiance).

The group of actors seems to fall in line with what Webb has been looking to do with his take on Spider-Man, which is to cast relative unknowns in a story that roots Parker back in high school. The movie will be an angst-ridden tale of a teen dealing with the knowledge that his uncle died even though he had the power to stop it. Columbia wants to begin production by year's end, but Webb and the studio are taking their time choosing the actor while scribe Alvin Sargent gets the script in spider-shape.

So you mean to tell me they are trying to revamp Spider-Man kind of like how they did The Incredible Hulk? I guess Tobey McGuire was getting a little boring, a fresh, young face was needed. Hmmmmm we shall see....