Originally published December 30, 2016. Updated April 16, 2018.
While Sony and Marvel left some fans disappointed when they chose to stick with Peter Parker for the MCU version of the wall-crawler, an alleged casting call has surfaced online which suggests that Miles Morales will be making his big screen debut at Sony after all, albeit as part of the animated Spider-Man movie.
Backstage has posting a casting call for ‘Cabin Fever’, an upcoming Sony animation project that “chronicles the adventures of two unlikely friends, Terrence and Pete” and is thought to be a codename for the animated Spidey feature.
The casting call for the lead, the 13-15 year-old ‘Terrence’, reads: “a young African-American/Puerto Rican teen from Brooklyn; he is new to this suburban school and now feeling out of place, overwhelmed, pressured with new responsibilities, and dealing with puberty; while trying to fit in he must do his best to stay out of trouble; along the way in developing his identity he’s losing old friends but now making a new one, Pete.”
‘Pete’ is also described as a 13-16 year-old male, and “a young, slighgtly geeky, Asian-American teen; he’s smart, sweet, and encouraging; although very unlike any of the friends Terrence had in his old Brooklyn neighborhood, Pete proves to be a good fit for Terrence making good decisions.”
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