We recently learned that the young boy saved by Iron Man at the Stark Expo in the Armoured Avenger's 2010 sequel was in fact, Peter Parker. Tom Holland made the cameo official and now Spider-Man: Homecoming director Jon Watts has shed some light on the thought process that went into that.
The filmmaker was the one who actually came up with the idea and even found a way to link Adrian Toomes to The Avengers by taking a line mentioning "damage control" and introducing that group.
"I was watching all these other movies and being like, ‘What if that little kid at the Stark Expo was Peter Parker? In the Iron Man mask.' Like, he’d be about the right age for that. And he loves Tony Stark. ‘Oh, what about after the Avengers battle, who would clean that stuff up?’ Because they mention damage control at one point in the movie. So it’s this thing where, because it’s not completely figured out, that you can just go back and basically write fan fiction for those movies, then the fan fiction becomes reality."
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige was the one who approved this change and Watts went on to explain who was wearing the Iron Man mask and was cast as the young Peter Parker. "I remember watching that with [Marvel Studios head] Kevin Feige and everyone and being like, ‘Does the math work on that?’ He was like, ‘It might, maybe.’ Then I found out that was Jon Favreau’s kid."
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