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[BrokenFiction]

...Tom Holland!

http://marvel.com/news/movies/24758...udios_find_their_spider-man_star_and_director

Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios are proud to announce that after a full worldwide casting search, Tom Holland will play Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the next Spider-Man film, in theaters in IMAX and 3D on July 28, 2017. The film will be directed by Jon Watts, director of "Cop Car," the upcoming thriller that made its debut earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.

Marvel and Sony Pictures, and producers Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal conducted an extensive search for both the actor and the director. The studios and producers were impressed by Holland’s performances in "The Impossible," “Wolf Hall,” and the upcoming "In the Heart of the Sea," and by a series of complex screen tests. Following Marvel’s tradition of working with the brightest next wave of directors, Watts also went through multiple meetings with Feige, Pascal, and the studio, before winning the job.

 

[BigJonsson]

And Jon Watts will direct

http://marvel.com/news/movies/24758/sony_pictures_and_marvel_studios_find_their_spider-man_star_and_director


No idea who either of them are

 

[Thatonemoor]

Beat me

 

[BronsonLee]

Oh shit!

They announced the director too!

 

[OnPoint]

Should please people asking for relative unknowns.

 

[alr1ght]

Spider-Manziel

 

[BodiesWithoutOrgans]

Picture?

 

[Carl]

Who?

 

[Slayven]

thank god

 

[Buddha Beam]

I have no idea who Tom Holland or Jon Watts are.

Should I be happy?

 

[PeskyToaster]

Is that director any good? I am not familiar with his work.

 

[BadWolf]

Never heard of him :/

 

[Mumei]

Well, now I have to watch The Impossible.

 

[biosnake20]

.

 

[canadian crowe]

Good for him. He was great in The Impossible.

 

[brochiller]

Definitely young.

 

[Squalor]

Another Brit taking our American superhero roles, haha.

Anyway, is it going to be another origin story?

 

[TheBaldEmperor]

Spider-Manziel

Too bad Proactive doesn't bite.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Sick.

 

[infiniteloop]

Another English Spiderman 🇬🇧

 

[Rapscallion]

He seems like a good actor. I don't know how much I like the younger slant on Spidey, but we'll see. Anything has to be better than the Garfield movies.

 

[kirblar]

Jon Watts is from The Onion: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1218281/

 

[Vik]

Well, better than the alternative... I hope

 

[User 479360]

Who?

This

 

[Dunlop]

 

[Immaculate]

smh

 

[BrokenFiction]

Nothing in the press-release about Civil War, though.

 

[Kraftwerk]

Too bad Proactive doesn't bite.

Damn

 

[Penguin]

Oh thank heavens

The search is over!

 

[shadyspace]

Another English Spiderman 🇬🇧

Fuck this.

 

[bigkrev]

He looks... really young. Could almost pass as a middle schooler.

 

[adamsapple]

What happened to that percy jackson kid

 

[alr1ght]

Yeah, who the heck is this director?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1218281

He must have been super cheap.

 

[Squalor]

Nothing in the press-release about Civil War, though.

They'll wait for this to succeed or bomb before deciding if he'll be in it, haha.

 

[The Cretan]

Very good choice, he can look like Ultimate Spider-Man's Peter. I have no idea for the director, though.

 

[MrChom]

Finally we can escape from the long worldwide nightmare that was Amazing Spider-Man 2.

 

[Blade30]

Sounds ok to me, although I'm a bit worried with the Director and the very few movies he did.

 

[BronsonLee]

What happened to that percy jackson kid

He was up for it until I chop blocked him for being such a dick in 3:10 to Yuma

 

[Swag]

Who is this guy

 

[Maninthemirror]

I cant feel it. not yet

 

[CrazyDude]

He looks... really young. Could almost pass as a middle schooler.

He's 19.

 

[Sky Interloper]

A british Spider-Man? Judging by his looks, origin story pretty much confirmed.

 

[BearPawB]

That chin wart already bothers me

 

[J10]

They got an actor and a director they can leash.

 

[Kouichi]

I don't know who he is, but I can't wait to see him in action!

 

[adamsapple]

Nothing in the press-release about Civil War, though.

says so here though:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/spider-man-finds-tom-holland-794761

The actor will appear in both Sony's 2017 stand-alone films as well as 'Marvel Studios' Captain America: Civil War,' which will preceed it.

 

[Carl]

Born in 1996? Christ.

 

[arab]

that chin mole is buginn the fuck out of me

 

[Van Owen]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=169462192&postcount=382

 

[Xamdou]

Tom Holland has Spidey skills for sure, just like the guy they casted as the Daredevil:

http://comicbook.com/2015/06/21/tom-holland-shows-he-has-the-skills-to-be-spider-man/