Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige must be exhausted this week. Having been on the press tour for the upcoming Ant-Man, he’s been talking about Edgar Wright’s departure from the project [see here], the studio’s “big plans” for The Wasp [see here], gender-swapping The Ancient One in Doctor Strange [see here], introducing an LGBT character into the MCU [see here], Black Panther’s role in Captain America: Civil War [see here], the chances of The Hulk appearing in the Phase Three threequel [see here], integrating Spider-Man into the Cinematic Universe [see here], and the “John Hughes vibe” of the reboot [see here].
Well, just incase that’s not enough Marvel for you for one week, Feige has now shared a few more thoughts on the new Spider-Man – set to be played by Tom Holland – and how a younger version of the character will stand out from what we’ve already seen from Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield:
“[Tom Holland’s] younger by I think five or six or seven or eight years than either Tobey or Andrew when they were cast and that’s very intentional,” Feige told the Los Angeles Times. “You look at the early comic books of Spider-Man and what was so great about what Stan Lee and Steve Ditko did was they said what if one of the most powerful heroes we have is a high school kid who also has to do homework and isn’t a billionaire, or isn’t a genius scientist, or isn’t a trained assassin, or isn’t another scientist who had an accident but is a kid?”
“The one thing that hasn’t been able to be explored in the other five [Spider-Man] movies is his relationship to the broader Marvel Universe and that’s something that was exciting to us,” he adds. “To go back to those Stan Lee, Steve Ditko origin tales of having him be younger and that dichotomy with dealing with the rest, and also in Brian Michael Bendis’ Ultimate Spider-Man. That the younger he was, the more truer he was to the original Spider-Man comic book stories and also the more unique and different he would be in comparison to the other Marvel heroes.”
Holland’s Spider-Man is expected to debut in Captain America: Civil War, which is set for release on May 6th 2016, followed by the as-yet-untitled Spider-Man reboot on July 28th 2017.
https://youtu.be/_0aWTKimZj4?list=PL18yMRIfoszEaHYNDTy5C-cH9Oa2gN5ng
Originally published July 1, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
