Marvel Studios and Sony Studios announced their new Spider-Man who will be a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) where the Avengers, Guardians, Daredevil, etc. reside. The lucky actor is 19 year old Tom Holland. Despite bigger names like Logan Lerman and Dylan O’Brien being thrown around, Holland is at the perfect age to play a teenage Peter Parker.
Holland is perhaps best known for his theatre role of Billy Elliot. He will also be appearing in In the Heart of the Sea with Chris Hemsworth, who portrays Thor in the MCU.
Meanwhile, Jon Watts who may be just as unknown has been tapped to direct the Spider-Man movie slated for 2017. Watts’ most recent work was Cop Car featuring Kevin Bacon. Despite both actor and director being new names to most people, Marvel and Sony expressed their faith in the duo and is looking forward to the success of the character and upcoming film.
Source: Marvel
Pass… Nothing to do with Tom, just tired of all these Spider-Man reboots. He keeps getting younger and younger. If you want to do young Spider-Man then just do a movie around Mile Morales, not constantly de-aging Peter.
Damn it Marvel!
Com’on Keith, I know everyone’s getting infected by the PC bug but you should know better: You CANNOT Have Miles UNTIL you are done with Peter. That is how it works, that is how it makes sense. That is how Miles shines: as a character that respects the legacy of Peter’s sacrifice through his own actions while still having a strong mythology and supporting cast of his own.
He’s way too raw and new to just hop on as his own just yet.
Plus, The Amazing Spider-Mole can apparently do his own stunts…or at least he can flip like Spider-Man.
Peter NEVER dies. That’s a roadblock, and there’s tons of spider people running around as it is, there’s more than enough space for another spiderman. Hell, even Peter in Ultimates was like “Here you go Miles, I’m done”.
C’mon.