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Initially, the plan was to find an Andrew Garfield look-a-like between the age of 4-6 years old.
Sony is now letting agents know that they’ve changed the age of the character and will now see “boys 6-9 years old”.
The production will “no longer be testing anyone under the age of 6 for that part”, we’re told.
Either the casting director struggled to find a “match” within those age confinements, or simply decided the sequences would work better with a slightly older boy.
Word is the sequences will involve Parker’s biological parents. The scene likely explains how he came to be in the care of Aunt May and Uncle Ben (Sally Field and Martin Sheen, respectively).
The Spider-Man reboot film starts filming in December with Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, and Rhys Ifans up for the role of Curt Connors/Lizard and Marc Webb serving as director.