Back in July, Sony Pictures Entertainment officially announced that they had cast Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) as the next Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the forthcoming, as yet Untitled Spider-Man Reboot, directed by Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer).

We haven’t heard much from Andrew Garfield since he scored the webslinging role, until now! Thankfully, THR cornered the future web-head at the Telluride Film Festival and he spoke about landing the role of Spidey.

Garfield said,

“I have been waiting for this phone call for 24 years, for someone to call me up and say, ‘Hey, we want you to pretend to be a character that you’ve always wanted to be all your life, and we’re going to do it with cool cameras and cool effects and you’re going to feel like you’re swinging through New York City. Do you want to do that?’ [laughs] ‘Let me just consult with my seven-year old self and see what he thinks…’ So my seven-year-old self started screaming in my soul and saying, This is what we’ve been waiting for. Like every young boy who feels stronger on the inside than they look on the outside, any skinny boy basically who wishes their muscles matched their sense of injustice, God, it’s just the stuff that dreams are made of, for sure. It’s a true f**king honor to be part of this symbol that I actually think is a very important symbol and it’s meant a great deal to me, and it continues to mean something to people. So yeah, I feel like I’ve been preparing for it for a while. Ever since Halloween when I was four years old and I wore my first Spider-Man costume.”

[The Shakedown]

I’ve got to admit, his reaction and enthusiasm gives me a ray of hope about this film that, to-date I haven’t really had. I always try to be ‘cautiously optimistic‘ about movies, but even I have been very “meh” about this re-boot.

The Untitled Spider-Man Reboot is slated to hit theaters on July 3rd, 2012