Bray Corbet, Dane DeHaan, and Alden Ehrenreich in running for Harry Osborn in ‘AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2.’

Harry Osborn up in the house! I’m really intrigued with where they’re going in this second Amazing Garfield flick. They’ve up and dropped the news that Emma Stacy is sloughing her mortal coil, but how literal are they keeping the rest of the story? Eh!? Who knows. What I do know is that I want Dane DeHaan as Harry.

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The absence of Mary-Jane and Harry were among the big differences between Webb’sThe Amazing Spider-Man and Sam Raimi’s earlier trilogy, but the characters are apparently too central to the mythos to stay away for long. Last month’s reveal that 2and 3 would build to a certain classic storyline had fans speculating that the Green Goblin, a.k.a. Harry’s father Norman Osborn, would make an appearance.

THR describes Webb’s Harry as a college kid who becomes friends with Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield). Unless the sequel has Peter heading off to college (which is possible), this suggests Harry’s a little older than Peter. In Raimi’s films, the character was played by James Franco.

Interestingly, the filmmakers originally envisioned Harry Osborn as a bulky, athletic type. Over the course of development, however, Harry’s been transformed into a darker, edgier character. Corbet, DeHaan, and Ehrenreich are said to be in the mix right now, but as the part continues to evolve, other names might enter the fray as well.

Of the three, DeHaan is probably hottest at the moment. He’s coming off a good year that saw him starring in Chronicle, Lawless, and Lincoln, and he has Derek Cianfrance’sThe Place Beyond the Pines and Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot due out next year. Ehrenreich, who previously starred in Francis Ford Coppola’s Tetro and Twixt, will next be seen in Chan-wook Park’s Stoker and the YA fantasy Beautiful Creatures. Corbet’s recent roles include Melancholia and Martha Marcy May Marlene.