Marvel announces Tom Holland will play Spider-Man, Jon Watts to direct
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This. Go to high school again, guys. They'll look 12 to you.
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Donald Glover fan cast can finally stop
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I'm just sooo happy that Butterfield didn't get the role.
Donald Glover is already playing Spider-Man.
He plays Miles Morales in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon.
TheKaeptain
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Actors are usually short. RDJ is short too.
The English Conquistador
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Tom Cruise is 5 foot 7.
But this is actually being produced by Marvel Studios, which means this will likely be the last reboot.
TheKaeptain
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Always subtract two inches from an actor's height. They lie.
Still. That quote about 5 Spider-Man movies in the last 13 years... jeez. 6 movies in fifteen years, plus sequels after. The public burnout could be real.
People think one of the reasons Jurassic World did well is because we haven't really seen dinosaurs since before there were Spider-Man movies
TheKaeptain
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Yep.
Movies do a good job of hiding height. I remember when I saw Seth Green and he was the same height as my friend who is like 5'1" or 5'2". Seth claims to be 5'4".
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Yeah, I've been shoulder-to-shoulder with Seth Green and no way is he 5'4".
I've been through that moment, but I truly dread the day that someone cast as Batman is younger than me. That's when I'll know I'm over the hill.
ReplacementPelican
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Why Ant-man? There are 11 of their films currently out.
excelsiorlef
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edit nevermind I'm a moron
its just a matter of taste, I grew up with Arnold movies, more muscles = more bad ass and more powerful.
In spidey 1 when toby look in the mirror and was pretty jacked, it was just impressive and gave me the impression that hes was very powerful.
I think you might want to re-read that post.
excelsiorlef
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Time constraints of the movie format.
I still wish we could have a Spider-Man television series. I feel like his soap opera-ish plots would really work best in that long form, serialized format, as opposed to the sort of Big Event plots that we're likely to get in films.
WadiumArcadium
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They definitely would. But it would cost a hell of a lot of money.
No worries!
On topic I'm excited to see how it all turns out. I'm really interested to see someone who is so clearly younger than everyone else get involved in the Avengers.
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He's going to be, there's no getting around it. In fact, if he's in high school in this, he was born right around 2000. Meaning he's on the younger end of Gen Y, pretty damn close to Z. If they don't characterize him like someone that age, it'll be odd.
But hey, that can lead to some great character moments as he plays off people like Stark and Cap. Stark is more than old enough to be his dad... they're like, over thirty years apart. But I think that can result in a pretty awesome dynamic as we hopefully get to compare their different approaches to being in the super hero biz (not to mention they're from wildly different walks of life anyway).
I get this for sure.
It's definitely a problem that every super hero film seems to need to have world ending stakes. Some characters just aren't suited to stories of that scope. I mean, his powers relate to him being able to climb walls and swing on webs. Fighting crime, yes. Saving the world, not so much.
You do realize he could kill Captain America with one punch?
- Dylan O'Brien was too old for what Marvel wanted.
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It's hard to say. Personally, I welcomed a reboot after Spider-Man 3, and then again after Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Spider-Man in MCU was always the impossible dream. Now it's happening. I think audiences will show up to Civil War big time to see Spidey in this universe for the first time. More than they did for Avengers 2.
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I find it funny how many people confusingly thought that Marvel had full rights or decisions to Spider-Man in threads within the last few weeks and even when we have a press release that specifically says "Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios are proud to announce that after a full worldwide casting search", Marvel is the only one mentioned.
I guess we are going to continue to get people that are confused about the arrangement.
I guess we are going to continue to get people that are confused about the arrangement.
Not all of us, I was the one who made the "It's Sony's car, Marvel's just the designated driver" analogy since Day 1.
Seems so. Funny how his new picture seems to surfaced just this month prior from this announcement.
I'm guessing he realized his public pictures won't garner much confidence from Spiderman fans.
Or maybe he was just self-conscious about it, as dozens of posts in this thread have well validated by now. :lol
They should stick that on the poster with an asterisk that says 'a legally binding promise'.
And if this does work then it will be a case of recasting rather than rebooting which we already know is something that they plan to do with Downey's Iron Man at some point.
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