YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN Showrunner Hints At Role For THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN's Josh Keaton

YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN Showrunner Hints At Role For THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN's Josh Keaton

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man showrunner Jeff Trammell has strongly hinted that The Spectacular Spider-Man and What If...? star Josh Keaton could lend his voice to a character in the series...

By JoshWilding - Jan 30, 2025 10:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Spider-Man (Animated)

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is off to a good start on Disney+. The first two episodes premiered yesterday and, as we write this, it sits at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes (unlikely many other MCU TV shows, critics got to see the entire series in advance). 

Now, showrunner Jeff Trammell has dropped a big hint about what's to come in the Marvel Animation TV show by sharing a recent X post from The Spectacular Spider-Man star Josh Keaton. 

As you can see below, Keaton appears to have attended some sort of cast event, prompting Trammell to say, "Huh... Would ya look at that..." We're not going to spoil whether the actor lends his voice to a character in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man - you'll have to wait and see - but in a Reddit AMA this week, Trammell repeatedly shared his love of the series. 

"My favorites were the 90's series and The Spectacular Spider-Man," he told one fan. "They definitely influenced my storytelling, especially the slow-burn approach to building the villains, which is a big lesson I took from Spectacular."

"I would just say the wide breadth of Spider-Man shows, such as the 90's series, Spectacular Spider-Man, the original 60's series, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends," Trammell added. "They all have something really special and enticing for me as a storyteller."

The writer also commented on Uncle Ben's importance to Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man's version of Peter Parker. "I think Spider-Man fans are conditioned to expect certain things, but one thing I wanted to do here was make sure Uncle Ben's lessons are something that encapsulate Peter throughout his life," he teased. "I wanna make sure that his presence isn't just from one big lesson but numerous lessons he's imparted in Peter from the beginning."

While Keaton could show up as any number of characters from the wider Spider-Man Universe, we know he's not playing Daredevil. Instead, the MCU's Man Without Fear, Charlie Cox, will reprise his live-action role to play a black-suited Variant.

"We never thought we'd be able to use Daredevil, much less Charlie as Daredevil," Trammell admitted, "so that was really cool and we're really excited for him to be a part of the show."

As well as voicing Peter Parker in The Spectacular Spider-Man, Keaton has played the web-slinger in video games like Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and Spider-Man: Edge of Time.

Who do you think Keaton could be playing in Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man?

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man follows Peter Parker on his way to becoming a hero, with a journey unlike we've ever seen and a style that celebrates the character’s early comic book roots.

The talented voice cast includes Hudson Thames, Colman Domingo, Eugene Byrd, Grace Song, Zeno Robinson, Hugh Dancy and Charlie Cox.

The head writer is Jeff Trammell and Mel Zwyer is the supervising director. Brad Winderbaum, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt and Trammell serve as executive producers.

The first two episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man are now streaming on Disney+.

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Wahhvacado
Wahhvacado - 1/30/2025, 10:28 AM
Here he is!

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ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 1/30/2025, 10:43 AM
Wouldn't mind a little multiverse storyline to pay homage to the Spidey series that came before. It does look like some kinda extra-dimensional timey-wimey thing was happening with Doctor Strange in the opening. He seemed to recognize the time and the place as being important (Midtown High and Spidey's origin).
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 1/30/2025, 10:48 AM
He’s obviously gonna be replacing Hudson Thames now as the voice of Peter on this show lol.

Kidding aside , he’s voiced Iron Man and Captain America before too so he could be doing the same here or likely he’s one of the villains…

My bet is on Speed Demon.

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Anyway , I like his approach to Uncle Ben’s influence in this Peters life…

I completely understand not wanting to do Uncle Ben dying again but I feel the MCU overcorrected by not mentioning him at all aside from brief blink & you miss it initials on a briefcase in FFH so I’m glad they aren’t apparently doing that here aswell.
KennKathleen
KennKathleen - 1/30/2025, 11:07 AM
My guess:


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MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 1/30/2025, 11:12 AM
What are the worst aspects of the show, for those who have watched any of it?
ElJefe
ElJefe - 1/30/2025, 3:13 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - I don’t like the CGI cell-shading animation style - same as the old Spider-Man The New Animated series had back in the day. The all look like weightless puppets.

The characterizations are also all a little off for me, even Petey. I knew ten minutes in that it wasn’t for me. But I’ll check out the Daredevil episodes.
IcePyke
IcePyke - 1/30/2025, 11:20 AM
Oh, Lord....

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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 1/30/2025, 12:01 PM
@IcePyke - They woke the f**king lizard
Mrnorth1921
Mrnorth1921 - 1/30/2025, 2:56 PM
@IcePyke - why does this bother you?
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 1/31/2025, 7:33 AM
@Mrnorth1921 - Sometimes I realy don't like changing things too much from comics to animation as you know what they DID look like unlike with words only books and they are not limited by who they can cast as to how a character looks. Especialy with A list characters and when something about them ties them to specifics (obvious A list examples of to me tied to a race Black Panther, less obvious ones like old money founding family types like Batman). Lesser characters, esp one that only becomes iconic realy when they change into a giant lizard I don't know why anyone cares TBH.

So I can get it folks taking issue changing Osborne as the single most know Spidey villain but Connors I don't see why it would be a big deal in an otherverse story IF well written esp as for new audiences who have watched the MCU movies there is the whole subverting expectations aspect as many won't connect her to the guy we saw in No Way Home.

Ultimately I like there to be strong narrative reasons for big changes but even when there isn't if well written, produced and entertains I don't normaly care cos no adaption stays 100% source accurate.

I can see reasons why if setting an otherverse story in the 2010's why some would think they need to make changes cos in the 60's, 70's and 80's we were still all told girls don't do maths and science (even tho even then they had the same or slightly better high school grades in those) but now who we see as top scientist has shifted even more than the changes in demographic changes of who lives in your city (but again, as an old fart, get why folk don't like too much change).

TLDR If a show is good realy shouldn't matter whilst still understanding why many don't like too much change to characters they grew up loving (but for me loved the Lizard, not the scientist he was prior to becoming that).
bobevanz
bobevanz - 1/30/2025, 11:32 AM
They change the origin, Doctor Strange is involved for no reason. [frick]ing Luna Snow is in it.. and it looks like something I made in Poser back in high school. He instantly has web fluid and a suit. I hate everything about this show
ReverseFlasher
ReverseFlasher - 1/30/2025, 12:29 PM
@bobevanz - they did a time jump after the strange scene, i think it said six months? So not instantly at all really.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 1/31/2025, 7:40 AM
@bobevanz - Putting aside changes, I get why many don't like change...

...but as I understand from reporting on it Dr Strange isn't from that universe so tend to think having switched from the original idea of being the sacred MCU timeline to give more narrative freedom they still want to use some established sacred timeline versions of characters. As such tend to think the reason Strange was there was to say is is part of the wider MCU multiverse and crossovers to film characters can and will occur from the start.

I don't like that style of animation however, an aesthetic issue that can make me averse to watching but if it turns out good can live with (just hold off watching till I can binge in such cases as I'm doing with this one, if consensus remains good I'll check the season out when it is all online to binge).
MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 1/30/2025, 11:55 AM
Why did a bunch of degenerates have a meeting and decide to make Lizard a woman?
TheManWithoutFear
TheManWithoutFear - 1/30/2025, 2:02 PM
I enjoyed the episodes for the most part. The change to the origin is my biggest issue, but I am reserving judgement until the season finale to see if there is some reason they did that.
encyclopedicmin
encyclopedicmin - 1/30/2025, 2:40 PM
I'm definitely going to watch FNS and Josh Keaton should return to the Spiderverse as maybe Flash Thompson.
FlixMentallo21
FlixMentallo21 - 1/30/2025, 3:34 PM
I’ve got one idea for a character Keaton could work as—

Richard Parker, Peter’s father. Team him with Vanessa Marshall (Spectacular’s Mary-Jane Watson), and we could get an episode showing their days as SHIELD agents.
DiegoMD
DiegoMD - 1/30/2025, 7:16 PM
I´m calling it now. He's gonna play Uncle Ben!
BIGBMH
BIGBMH - 1/30/2025, 7:24 PM
@DiegoMD - I had the same thought. It'd be fun to have him as anyone, but I think it's going to be more purposeful and significant than when Keaton played Electro in the PS4 game.

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