Captain America: Civil War is only a year away, and with Marvel set to introduce Spider-Man into the mix for the first time, casting the wallcrawler needs to happen soon. While some fans were hoping they'd go a different route and choose Miles Morales over Peter Parker, that ain't happenin'. Yet. It's still going to be Parker, but at least now we know when the Spider-Man solo film arrives we won't have to sit through his origin story yet again.
Marvel's Kevin Feige confirmed the news to CraveOnline, while also revealing their version of Peter Parker will be high school-aged, meaning it will have more in common with Brian Michael Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man comic.
“It will not be an origin story. But, with great power comes great responsibility. It is inherent to who his character is. But we want to reveal it in different ways and spend much more time focusing on this young high school kid in the MCU dealing with his powers...There is a young kid [already] running around New York City in a homemade version of the Spider-Man costume in the MCU, you just don’t know it yet."
"In terms of the age of an actor we’ll eventually cast, I don’t know,” Feige admits. “In terms of the age of what we believe Peter Parker is, I’d say 15-16 is right… [S]ome of my favorite Spider-Man arcs and Spider-Man stories, he’s in high school for a lot of it. We want to explore that. That also makes him very, very different from any of our other characters in the MCU, which is something else we want to explore: how unique he is when now put against all these other characters.”
Not only have we seen Spidey's origin twice in only a few years, but that costume is in need of an overhaul. Fortunately, Feige says we're going to get something completely different. Maybe something similar to the 2099 version? Pretty please?
"...we’ve already designed the costume, which is different than any of the ones that have come before. And yet ours is classic Spidey, as I think you’ll see.”
Okay, so probably not the 2099 version. Oh well. Marvel's Spider-Man film, possibly titled Spectacular Spider-Man, will be directed by Drew Goddard and open July 28th 2017.
