Spider-Man Movie Reboot Latest News: Marvel to Reboot With 15-Year-Old Peter Parker
The recent announcement from Marvel indicates that the new Spider-Man will still be Peter Parker and not the rumored Miles Morales.
The news came after Marvel struck a deal with Sony Pictures, who owns the said superhero franchise, to revive the web slinging New Yorker by first featuring him in MCU's upcoming big screen offering, "Captain America: Civil War" with Chris Evans as Steve Rogers/Captain America and Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron-Man on May 6, 2016.
After the attached comeback, a new Spider-Man standalone reboot will be on its way this July 28, 2017. This would be the Web-Slinger's third reboot film after the Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield-led movies.
After several speculations concerning the new Spider-Man identity, Marvel's head Kevin Feige stepped into the light to announce that it would still be Peter Parker.
However, Parker will still be only 15 years old years when he returns to the big screen. The plan is to skip the origin story.
"In terms of the age of what we believe Peter Parker is, I'd say 15-16 is right. Some of my favorite Spider-Man arcs and Spider-Man stories, he's in high school for a lot of it. We want to explore that. That also makes him very, very different from any of our other characters in the MCU, which is something else we want to explore: how unique he is when now put against all these other characters," said Feige.
"In Spider-Man's very specific case, where there have been two re-tellings of that origin in the last whatever it's been – [thirteen] years – for us we are going to take it for granted that people know that, and the specifics," he continued.
As of the actor, Marvel and Sony still has to find the right person to don the red and blue suit.
About the costume, Feige added that the studio already had the design "which is different than any of the ones that have come before."
