Marvel's Kevin Feige has confirmed that the new Spider-Man will be Peter Parker and will be in high school. Fans were throwing around other possibilities, like professor Miles Warren, who was temporarily Spider-Man in a "controversial" clone storyline.
“We want to play with Spider-Man in the high school years because frankly there’ve been five Spider-Man films and the amazing thing about it is, even though there’ve been five Spider-Man films, there are so many things from the comics that haven’t been done yet. Not just characters or villains or supporting characters, but sides to his character," Feige said. "The most obvious being the ‘young, doesn’t quite fit in’ kid before his powers, and then the fella that puts on a mask and swings around and fights bad guys and doesn’t shut up, which is something we want to play with and we’re excited about.”
He also said in terms of casting, they are envisioning Peter Park as about 15 or 16 years old.
"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 [Marvel Cinematic Universe], which is something else we want to explore: how unique he is when now put against all these other characters."
Watch the full interview above. The Marvel Spider-Man film is set to come out July 28, 2017.
