Kevin Feige Shares More 'Spider-Man' Details
With a new "Spider-Man" already signed up for the web-slinger's solo reboot movie, Marvel is baring additional details about how the film is going to shape up. No less than Marvel's Kevin Feige has been sharing interesting tidbits about how different this reboot will be.
Young actor Tom Holland has been cast to play a young Peter Parker who is high school age. Marvel has revealed early on that they will focus on the story of Peter Parker as he lives and goes through high school.
According to a report in Variety, Kevin Feige said in an interview with SlashFilm that the new Spider-Man movie will be "a 'John Hughes' movie." His reference to John Hughes has to do with Hughes' career in filmmaking which is mainly composed of flicks set in high school or comedies. These include "The Breakfast Club," "Pretty in Pink," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Sixteen Candles," "National Lampoon's Vaction," "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" among others.
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"Some of my favorite Spider-Man arcs and Spider-Man stories, he's in high school for a lot of it," he continued. "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."
Feige also cited that the new Spider-Man will also show how different the web-slinger is from the other superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In a SlashFilm report, he cited that Spider-Man is more "a kid among other larger than life superheroes." Unlike the first Spider-Man films, the reboot will show him as "a kid in Queens with these powers and has other [superheroes] to look to."
He also mentioned that a new villain who has not been any Marvel movie might be appearing as Spider-Man's nemesis.
