10 Teen Actors Who Should Play The New Spider-Man
It's not a one horse race.
Spider-Man is going through some changes, and about time too. Both Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's on-screen versions of the comic hero have been older than the source material's classically teenaged dork, who nonetheless dons a colourful costume to become a hero. According to a possibly leaked shortlist of actors Sony are looking at for their third rebooted Spider-Man, they're going back to school. That's what the age range of those prospective actors suggests, and it's been backed up MCU mastermind Kevin Feiege as well: "In terms of the age of an actor well eventually to cast, I dont know. In terms of the age of what we believe Peter Parker is, Id say 15-16 is right. We want to play with Spider-Man in the high school years because frankly thereve been five Spider-Man films and the amazing thing about it is, there are so many things from the comics that havent been done yet." Unfortunately they're not changing things quite so radically as they could - many were disappointed at the decision to put Peter Parker under the mask again for Spider-Man's long-awaited introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, rather than giving the half-Latino, half-black Miles Morales from the comics a chance. Still, it's a big deal that Peter Parker is actually going to look like Peter Parker for the first time. Almost as big a deal that he's now going to be part of the MCU (rumour has it the new film will even bear the subtitle The New Avenger), which will require a performer of some stature and talent. With all that in mind, here are ten actors who should play the new Spider-Man.