Despite the fact that both Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan feigned ignorance when asked about Spider-Man's role in Captain America: Civil War during Entertainment Weekly's set visit, the site has confirmed what we pretty much already knew; the wall-crawler will indeed be making an appearance in Marvel's first Phase 3 movie. After spotting a stuntmant wearing "a very familiar red and blue suit that covered him from head to toe," the magazine quizzed Kevin Feige about what they had spotted. "Listen, if there was a cosplayer running around that set when you were there, I don’t know what to tell you." Well, we did get fooled by that cosplayer on the Suicide Squad set!
However, what happened next confirms that what the magazine saw was no cosplayer.
During the very same battle sequence, Robert Downey Jr. comes strolling by. He’s laughing and talking with his arm slung over the shoulder of a young man who is doing some pinpoint Tom Holland cosplay, wearing a full Spider-Man suit, except for the mask.
"[Don] Cheadle and I are just going, ‘Wow, dude, look at this,'" Downey Jr. later told them in an interview. "We’re now like the old guard, and our storyline carries real weight just because of our history in the [canon]. But we’re also looking around like, ‘Who thought that Falcon and Black Panther and Ant-Man and now Spider-Man…?’ I mean it’s like wow, this thing is just crazy." So, the cat is officially out of the bag, but company man Chris Evans was quick to try and save the day by pointing out: "You never know with Marvel. Sometimes they shoot things and then don’t use them." Yeah, see you next May Spider-Man. What do you guys think about these latest details?