January 11 2010, the day Sony Pictures announced that the film itself, it's star Tobey Maguire, director Sam Raimi, and filmmaking team involved with "Spider-Man 4" was scrapped, and the franchise would get the ol' reboot. Shocking "webhead" fans everywhere by that announcement alone, yesterday Sony announced unknown British actor Andrew Garfield as the new lead for the reboot.
Well in the exact press release that announced Sony moving forward with Spidey's reboot, based on a script by James Vanderbilt, the plot would focus on a teenager grappling with both contemporary human problems
in high school and amazing super-human crises. But now moving forward with Garfield, many believe that the 26 year old is in fact too old to portray a high school student throughout the entire film, and that Sony may be starting the film with the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man a high school graduate, and off to college.
Drew McWeeny from HitFix acknowledging this idea, has apparently heard word that the new plan for the reboot would include
"Parker (starting) the series as a college student". With no official word of this rumor, it is just that; a rumor.
And Whatever will be the new webslinger's education level, the reboot begins production this December. And with Andrew Garfield leading, the studio can now move on to casting supporting characters around him.
In Marc Webb's direction, Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad will produce the film from Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios. And Spidey swings back into theaters July 3, 2012, in the chronic 3D.