Spider-Man: Homecoming - 10 New Things We've Learned (Aug 19th)

New villains, love interests and Avengers cameos...

The Tinkerer Mary Jane
Marvel

With Spidey set to swing back into cinemas in July 2017, relaunching the franchise that Sony have conspired to fudge twice, the interest in news and rumours dedicated to his return is reaching feverous levels.

It's not hard to see why the film warrants so much discussion.

Could the team-up with Marvel be Sony's answer to giving new life to the Wall-Crawler? Could other studios with the rights to Marvel characters be tempted to work with Kevin Feige and co with other characters? Will this be the start of a beautiful relationship and an extended franchise that gets past the difficult third outing?

Let's hope so in all cases.

For now, though, it's a matter of sifting through the news and collecting all of the latest information we definitely know about Spider-Man: Homecoming...

10. The Tinkerer

The Tinkerer Mary Jane
Marvel

We already sort of "know" that Michael Keaton is playing the Vulture in Homecoming - though there hasn't actually been a confirmation of that fact just yet. What has been confirmed however is that Orange Is The New Black's Michael Chernus will be playing secondary villain The Tinkerer.

In the comics, Tinkerer has worked with Vulture a couple of times - forcibly in the first instance and as his employer in the Ultimate universe at one stage. It seems he'll be at least partly comical in Homecoming, since Chernus has been hired.

Given that we know that Vulture will be a tech-based character, it makes sense that Tinkerer would be the genius behind the suit. Hopefully he'll take on more of a cross-movie recurring role, rather than just being another villain to throw in against Spider-Man, to avoid Too Many Villains syndrome again.

Chernus actually played a geeky, tech-loving character in Men In Black III. He's the son of the inventor of the time travelling device J uses to jump back in time to save the world.

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