Kevin Feige On Casting "Amazing" Tom Holland As SPIDER-MAN, Deciding On The Villain And More
The head of Marvel Studios now talks about how he and Sony are deciding which villain Spider-Man will take on in the new standalone movie, and he also praises the reboot's new star, Tom Holland.
Kevin Feige added that Spider-Man's relationship with other superheroes of the broader Marvel Universe is also what makes this new interpretation different from the previous. "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," he explained. "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."
In a separate interview with Fandango, the Marvel Studios producer elaborated on his and Sony's collaborative decision in casting Tom Holland as Peter Parker. "It was a universal decision," said Feige. "We do a lot of tests and a lot of meetings so we can really try to find someone who becomes a unanimous choice. And in this case, it was Tom. He's just amazing! And he can do his own flips, which is just an added bonus. We didn’t cast him for that reason. We cast him because he’s an amazing actor and he’s going to have all of those flavors Peter Parker needs to have." It was previously said by Kevin Feige that the new standalone Spider-Man movie will feature a villain that has never graced the big-screen before, but the producer was asked in another interview (via Io9) about the status of who or what villain that will be. "He’s got an amazing Rogue’s Gallery and bench and we’re honing in on who will get the call to be in that standalone movie," he replied.