BREAKING: Tom Holland Cast As Spider-Man

[MartyMcFly]

Marvel and Sony have found their Peter Parker.

“The Impossible” actor Tom Holland is set to play the web-slinging superhero in the next “Spider-Man” franchise. Jon Watts (“Cop Car”) will direct the film.

“I’ve worked with a number of up-and-coming directors who have gone on to be superstars and believe that Jon is just such an outstanding talent,” Tom Rothman, Sony Pictures Motion Pictures Group chairman, said in a press release. “For Spidey himself, we saw many terrific young actors, but Tom’s screen tests were special. All in all, we are off to a roaring start.”

The actor is first expected to make an appearance in “Captain America: Civil War” in order to properly introduce him into the Marvel film universe, with standalone films to follow.

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/tom-holland-spider-man-new-marvel-1201510563/

Watts, meanwhile, beat out contenders such as Jonathan Levine, the team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein. Sources said it was Feige that made the ultimate call regarding the new director.

“As with James Gunn, Joss Whedon, and the Russo brothers, we love finding new and exciting voices to bring these characters to life," said Feige in a statement. "We spent a lot of time with Jon and find his take and work inspiring.”

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/spider-man-finds-tom-holland-794761

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Wack

 

[TheGodling]

the joint with Naomi Watts?

Yup. She got most of the widespread recognition but dude was easily on par with her.

 

[MartyMcFly]

This morning Marvel announced that they had found their new Spider-Man, and the director of their next Spider-Man movie: Tom Holland will be Peter Parker and Cop Car director Jon Watts.

Tom Holland is excellent casting; young but experienced, Holland has the right look and, judging by what I've heard about him from his co-workers, is exactly the kind of team player Marvel needs as they continue their ever more massive shared universe. Holland has been extraordinary in a number of roles, especially in his part in the truly treacly The Impossible - he pretty much elevates the whole movie. Holland will be heading to Atlanta soon, as the worst kept secret in the business is that Spidey will show up in Captain America: Civil War.

Holland has been in the running for a long time, and he's been through a rigorous series of screen tests. Sources tell me that Holland was always the favorite but that Marvel didn't want to fukk this up - they needed to make sure this Spidey was the right choice. Last week I reported to you that the Spidey list was down to Holland and Charlie Rowe, with Asa Butterfield totally getting kicked to the curb.

Jon Watts, meanwhile, is more of an unknown quality. His Sundance movie, Cop Car, has a few Spidey-aged kids stealing a cop car; the Drafthouse team flipped out over the film at Sundance, and everyone I know who has seen it thinks it's really fun and really propulsive, with great action sensibilities. This isn't a romcom director making the leap to big action, this is a genre director making the leap to bigger genre.

The next Spider-Man movie still doesn't have a title. I'm holding out hope for Spectacular Spider-Man or Web of Spider-Man, two of my favorite Spidey books from back in the day.

I'm excited! A young Spider-Man is refreshing, and I can't wait to see how Holland interacts with the madness that is the mighty Marvel Cinematic Universe. And this gives Kevin Feige one less question to have to answer at this weekend's Ant-Man junket.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06/23/tom-holland-is-spider-man-jon-watt-to-direct

 

[Jello Biafra]

Holland was the best of the bunch that they were looking at for the role so I am I cool with this casting.
I hated Clown though so Watt getting the director gig is

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

i'm gonna be real honest here


if this is a core origin story


i'm not paying for it


i just can't watch that story again...i've seen it 10000x since i was a kid, and I will get nothing from it besides waste 90 minutes waiting for the conflict to start

 

[The Mad Titan]

Seems more of a harry than a peter, but I've never seen any of his work just that picture.

Meh...

 

[Sad Bunny]

i'm gonna be real honest here


if this is a core origin story


i'm not paying for it


i just can't watch that story again...i've seen it 10000x since i was a kid, and I will get nothing from it besides waste 90 minutes waiting for the conflict to start

It isnt. That has been said multiple times.

And you're gonna pay no matter what once you see that first trailer.

 

[MartyMcFly]

i'm gonna be real honest here


if this is a core origin story


i'm not paying for it


i just can't watch that story again...i've seen it 10000x since i was a kid, and I will get nothing from it besides waste 90 minutes waiting for the conflict to start

They already said it won't be breh. According to Feige, he's already spider-man and he's been doing it in a makeshift costume for an unspecified amount of time

 

[FlyRy]

Hopefully they whiten his teeth first

 

[Erik Killmonger]

Vareity said it was down to Holland and Rowe so if Holland is Peter that means Rowe is Harry

 

[wire28]

Time to brush up on his films so I can be a knowledgeable stan

We back for the first time

 

[BodeineBrazy]

great pick

 

[MartyMcFly]

Vareity said it was down to Holland and Rowe so if Holland is Peter that means Rowe is Harry

I said it before but I wouldn't mind if they kept harry out of this for a while. He and harry didn't meet till college anyway so changing it up wouldn't be a bad idea at least in my mind

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Excelsior.