Kevin Feige Confirms Marvel's SPIDER-MAN Sends 'Peter Parker' Back To High School
Peter Parker is Spider-Man. We all know that, but whether or not we'd see the original Spidey in the upcoming 2017 reboot was a little uncertain.. until now that is!
While on the press tour for his next release Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Marvel's head honcho Kevin Feige shared a few details about Marvel's upcoming joint collaboration with Sony Pictures, possibly the most anticipated Marvel film ever, Spider-Man!
Ever since the initial announcement that Spider-Man would be retuning to Marvel Studios to team-up with the Avengers as well as receive a brand new solo movie, rumors have been circulating about which Spidey we would actually get to see. Would it be the classic Peter Parker, who's been Spidey for over fifty years, but someone we've seen on the big screen five times before, or would Marvel shake things up by introducing Miles Morales, a relatively new property who's only been around for a little over three years?
While speaking with the good people at Collider, Feige revealed that the new Spider-Man will once again be the iconic Peter Parker, albeit a considerably younger Parker than we've seen before, and also confirmed that the upcoming movie will place Marvel's most cherished hero back into a high school setting, something which he says the previous five films barely explored and a time period where he says some of his favorite Spider-Man stories originate from. Check out his comments in the video below and/or read the transcript that follows:
“We want to play with Spider-Man in the high school years because frankly there’ve been five Spider-Man films and the amazing thing about it is, even though there’ve been five Spider-Man films, there are so many things from the comics that haven’t been done yet. Not just characters or villains or supporting characters, but sides to his character. The most obvious being the ‘young, doesn’t quite fit in’ kid before his powers, and then the fella that puts on a mask and swings around and fights bad guys and doesn’t shut up, which is something we want to play with and we’re excited about.
I think it was midway through the first film that he graduated high school. At the beginning of the second Marc Webb film, he graduated high school. And some 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.
In terms of the age of an actor we’ll eventually to cast, I don’t know. In terms of the age of what we believe Peter Parker is, I’d say 15-16 is right.”
A young Spidey opens up a lot of possibilities for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe post-Infinity War as he could rightfully take the mantle from Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man and become the face of the franchise starting with Phase 4.
What do you guys think? Who would you like to see cast as Spider-Man? There have been rumors that multiple ethnicities have been testing for Parker, so would you be okay with Marvel possibly changing up his race? Are you ready to see Spidey make his rumored MCU debut in 2016's Captain America: Civil War or would you rather he debut in Doctor Strange? Sound off with your thoughts below!
Spider-Man swings back into theaters July 28, 2017