Spider-Man: Dylan O’Brien & Logan Lerman Being Eyed for MCU Reboot

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I'm more interested in how Spiderman is introduced into the MCU, given that there was no trace of him thus far, particularly during the attack on New York. Could they use some interdimensional shenanigans?

You're over-complicating it. It's not very hard for him to just become Spider-Man after Avengers.
 
Ugh, going with a older Spider-Man makes more sense for the civil war. I don't understand how they would be able to push trivial high school crap during such a major arc.
 
I'm more interested in how Spiderman is introduced into the MCU, given that there was no trace of him thus far, particularly during the attack on New York. Could they use some interdimensional shenanigans?

I don't think they will bother. I expect them to just mess with the timeline and pretend that Spiderman came into being much later than he did in the comics.
 
Ugh, going with a older Spider-Man makes more sense for the civil war. I don't understand how they would be able to push trivial high school crap during such a major arc.

People still got to go to school even if the world is ending.
 
It also amazes me how people just ignore the comics and imagine Peter Parker how they want it to be. Newsflash: he's only a geek when he was in high school. He grew up to be a rather hot guy over the course of the story. Hot enough, like others have said, that he attracts super model like Mary Jane Watson.
Even in high school multiple chicks were chasing after him. Hot secretary lady? Check. Jock's ex-girlfriend? Check. Heck even Jessica Jones had a crush on him. And this was the Ditko era when he was still acting like a dick to everyone.
 
I refuse to watch another "Logan Lerman is thrust into responsibility" movie. Isn't it enough that he tanked his own franchise?
 
Here it comes. Another hipster pretty boy

They learned nothing from the garfield fiasco
People need to stop complaining about this. Peter Parker has always been the male equivalent of the nerdy girl from high school movies that takes off her glasses and suddenly everyone suddenly realizes she's beautiful. He's socially awkward, not a CHUD.

He married a model for Christ's sake.
 
O'Brien is perfect. Born to play the part.

Peter Parker has always been the male equivalent of the nerdy girl from high school movies that takes off her glasses and suddenly everyone suddenly realizes she's beautiful. He's socially awkward, not a CHUD.

O'Brien will deliver all that in spades. He can easily give you the vibe of a guy who used to be a nerd, but isn't really anymore... Smart, funny, awkward, extremely likeable. And with enough acting range to put you into a serious frame of mind when the story calls for it.

Unless the script was just garbage, O'Brien would be better than either Garfield, or Tobey, and I really liked Tobey in the role.

Edit// Also, personally I think there will be a shortened version of the origin story in there somewhere. It might just be Peter explaining to somebody how he became Spider-Man with a little flashback thrown in.

Obviously if they are going for the high-school angle, this will occur very shortly after the bite, and he'll still be trying to learn to juggle high-school with superhero responsibilities. The Origin will almost have to be there. It doesn't have to take up a lot of screen time, but it is needed to establish the character in the MCU.
 
Logan isn't THAT bad.

Just a significant step down.

I'm not saying he's a horrendous actor, but he has the charm of a block of concrete and nothing about his physique or look really does it for me in terms of this role. Dylan on the other hand was what mostly kept me watching Teen Wolf and his action scenes in The Maze Runner showed off a lot of versatility.
 
Both are 23 years old...

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I'll admit Dylan has a good comedic side but his seriousness in The Maze Runner is nowhere near as good as Logan.

Spidey is mostly jokes so the comedy is more important than the dramatic element. Now that said, I haven't seen Maze Runner (which I'm pretty sure was not the best directed or acted film in the first place) so I don't know how bad Dylan was in the serious moments. I wouldn't judge anyone's acting capabilities off of Hunger Games for example unless they were atrociously bad.
 
They are not going to choose an actual high schooler.

They were always going to go with a 20-something that could pas as younger.
I was assuming his reaction was about how young they were. And how 23 is far from young when Spider-Man was meant to be 15 years old when the comic started.
 
Spidey is mostly jokes so the comedy is more important than the dramatic element. Now that said, I haven't seen Maze Runner (which I'm pretty sure was not the best directed or acted film in the first place) so I don't know how bad Dylan was in the serious moments.

He wasn't bad. The movie was mostly an action/mystery type deal with only a few "heavy" moments and he was fine during them.
 
Ah. I C.

Oh well. I prefer a young spidey if they are doing a reboot. They lack a young character in the MCU right now.

Agreed.

I'm completely disagreeing with all these Gaffers clamoring for an adult spiderman, because there are NO young people in the Avengers, and if they are going to do someone young, it should be Spidey.
 
Not really concerned about age. 23 isn't that old. Garfield is what over 30 now yet plenty of people seemed to have liked him going by this recent news.
 
Not from my experience. In the dailies and Amazing Spider-Man series, he was an adult for as far back as I can remember.

The first 3 years of the classic Stan Lee run he was a high-schooler. A ton of the most iconic Spider-Man stories happened as part of that era.

Edit: Not to mention pretty much the entire run of Ultimate Spider-Man, and Marvel has often used the Ultimate comics as the basis for their movies (Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, and the Avengers in general were heavily based on their Ultimate counterparts).
 
Yeah, after 50 of 700 issues he was done with school.
They should make him a student.

I'm fine with him mid-college while looking for employment/income, but mostly the latter point.

I am referring to the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko run on the series, which is the era of Spider-Man that is by far the most popular and well known.

Unless they are bringing Raimi back, I would just assume they would create more modern story arcs to fit with the MCU.
 
so this confirm a third reboot

LMAO

Welcome to 2 days ago.

I'm fine with him mid-college while looking for employment/income, but mostly the latter point.

Why is that somehow better than high school era Parker? From the casting names being mentioned by Variety not to mention the Sony leaks of Marvel wanting Spider-Man to be a high-schooler is pretty clear that is where they are going.
 
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