Originally published September 28, 2016. Updated June 30, 2023.
You may want to have your pinch of salt at the ready for this one, but according to Bleeding Cool, the Marvel superhero Nightwatch could be set for an appearance in next year’s Spider-Man: Homecoming.
The site reports that Sony employees have been out and about picking up as many Nightwatch comics as they can in order to research the character for a movie appearance, potentially in Spider-Man: Homecoming. They also speculate that Nightwatch could be Bokeem Woodbine’s character rather than Shocker, which seems a bit of a stretch given that a) we’ve seen Woodbine listed as Shocker on a leaked call sheet, and b) he looks nothing like Nightwatch in costume.
Nightwatch was created by Terry Kavanagh and Alex Saviuk and made his debut back in 1993 in Web of Spider-Man #99 (hence the reason the character falls under Sony’s remit in terms of movie rights). He gains his powers after witnessing the death of a costumed hero, who turns out to be a future version of himself; taking his strange, sentient costume, he sets out to try and avoid his fate before accepting his destiny as a crime-fighter.
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A young Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland), who made his sensational debut in Marvel Studios’ “Captain: Civil War,” begins to navigate his newfound identity as the web-slinging superhero in “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”
Spider-Man: Homecoming sees Tom Holland and Marisa Tomei reprising their roles from Captain America: Civil War as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Aunt May, alongside Marvel veterans Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark and Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan. New additions to the cast include Michael Keaton (Birdman), Michael Barbieri (Little Men), Zendaya (K.C. Undercover), Angourie Rice (The Nice Guys), Tony Revolori (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus), Martin Starr (Silicon Valley), Donald Glover (Community), Laura Harrier (One Life to Live), Kenneth Choi (Captain America: The First Avenger), Hannibal Buress (Broad City), Isabella Amara (The Boss), Jorge Lendeborg, Jr. (Graceland), JJ Totah (Glee), Abraham Attah (Beasts of No Nation), Michael Mando (Better Call Saul), Selenis Leyva (Orange Is the New Black), Bokeem Woodbine (Riddick), Tyne Daly (Cagney & Lacey), Garcelle Beauvais (Hollywood Today Live), Tiffany Espensen (Kirby Buckets), Michael Chernus (Orange is the New Black), Jona Xiao (Halt and Catch Fire) and Martha Kelly (Baskets). The film is set for release on July 7th, 2017.
