![Andrew Garfield Says Any Potential Spider-Man Return Would Need To Be “Very Odd,” Floats A Road Trip Movie [Exclusive]](https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/03113106/Andrew-Garfield-Spider-Man-No-Way-Home.jpg "Andrew Garfield Says Any Potential Spider-Man Return Would Need To Be “Very Odd,” Floats A Road Trip Movie [Exclusive]")
For better or worse, Andrew Garfield will probably be asked about Spider-Man for the rest of his life. His surprise return in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” only made it worse, convincing fans that he might now appear in every Spider-Man movie from now until the end of time.
Garfield recently joined Mike DeAngelo on The Playlist’s “The Discourse” podcast to discuss “The Magic Faraway Tree,” the new family fantasy film in which he stars opposite Claire Foy. Based on Enid Blyton’s children’s novels, the film follows a family that relocates to the English countryside, where the children discover a magical tree that transports them to a series of fantastical worlds. Garfield and Foy play the parents, Tim and Polly.
Naturally, with “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” poised to dominate the box office at the time of the interview, DeAngelo squeezed in a Spider-Man question before the conversation ended. Noting that the internet collectively convinces itself Garfield has secretly filmed another Marvel movie roughly every six months—including wild speculation that he would appear in “Brand New Day”—the podcast host asked what another chapter with his Peter Parker would need to offer, emotionally or creatively, to convince him to return.
“I don’t know. I really don’t know,” Garfield said. “I would need it to be very, very odd. I would need it to be very strange, and I would need it to be completely unconventional and almost—I wouldn’t say boring—but I would want it to be just completely unexpected, like a genre of Spider-Man that you’ve never seen before, that feels very left field.”
Garfield then offered one potential direction, although he was clearly thinking aloud rather than teasing an actual project.
“And I don’t even know what that would be,” he continued. “Maybe like a road trip movie.”
A Spider-Man road-trip movie would certainly qualify as something audiences haven’t seen before. What that would actually look like is another question we can’t answer. At the very least, it would be more interesting than another multiverse cameo designed largely to make an audience cheer.
Garfield’s answer is consistent with what he has said before about returning to the role. He has repeatedly left the door open, but only for an idea that feels unusual, surprising, and worth doing rather than a return for its own sake.
“No Way Home” already gave his Peter Parker a second ending after the premature conclusion of “The Amazing Spider-Man” series, allowing him to revisit the character’s grief and find some measure of emotional closure. Any future appearance would presumably need to add something rather than repeat that trick.
Whether Sony Pictures or Marvel Studios would ever gamble on Garfield’s Peter Parker starring in a strange, unconventional road movie is anyone’s guess. But if he is destined to answer this question forever, at least he has finally offered the internet a more interesting possibility to obsess over.
Directed by Ben Gregor from a screenplay by Simon Farnaby, “The Magic Faraway Tree” stars Garfield and Claire Foy as parents whose family discovers a magical tree after relocating to the English countryside. Vertical releases the film in U.S. theaters on August 21. Look for The Playlist’s full interview with Garfield soon. — Additional reporting by Mike DeAngelo.
