I don’t know which is worse, superhero casting rumors or Star Wars speculation, but neither are going away any time soon and it seems Sony and Marvel are moving quite quickly when it comes to their new Spider-Man now that the two companies have joined forces.
Spider-Man will first appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) on April 6, 2016 in Captain America: Civil War. In what capacity no one really knows, but from there the character will have his own film on July 28, 2017. Now we’ve also learned the character will be going back to Midtown High School and perhaps in the form of Miles Morales, the character that took up the Spider-Man mantle following the death of Peter Parker in the comics. Of course, this also means bringing audiences a Spider-Man of African American and Puerto Rican descent. Oddly enough, the first two names rumored for the role are a pair of white guys in Logan Lerman (Fury) and Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner).
Lerman has been in this position before after being considered a frontrunner for the role when it eventually went to Andrew Garfield (who supposedly turned down the chance to return). Of course, fans may want Donald Glover for the role, but with the intent to go younger with the role, the 31-year-old comedian isn’t a likely choice. My pick would be to forget the high school business and go with Tyler James Williams from Dear White People, or maybe Keith Stanfield (Short Term 12), but that’s just me.
In other news in the Spidey universe, Sony is apparently still planning on moving forward with Sinister Six and Venom, a pair of Spider-Man spin-offs, though while the new Spider-Man feature will be part of the larger MCU, neither of these films will be. Why they would do that is beyond me, though I have to assume they also won’t include this new iteration of Spider-Man… or maybe they will, I don’t know.
