Homecoming Casting a teenager(ish) actor for a teenager Peter Parker (Spider-Man)

[Talion]

This weekend Collider broke the news that Kevin Feige himself confirmed Peter Parker in the role of Spider-Man in the upcoming Civil War film and his first solo film set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Here are his exact quotes:

“In terms of the age of an actor we’ll eventually to cast, I don’t know. In terms of the age of what we believe Peter Parker is, I’d say 15-16 is right.”

“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. 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.”

“I think it was midway through the first film that he graduated high school. At the beginning of the second Marc Webb film, he graduated high school. And 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.”

In an interview for Crave Online (the parent company of SHH), Kevin Feige added more information about Spider-Man, confirming that the next Spider-Man is not an origin story. He elaborated on that, and here are iis exact quotes:

“In Spider-Man’s very specific case, where there have been two retellings 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,“

“It will not be an origin story,“ ]/i]Feige continued. “But, with great power comes great responsibility. It is inherent to who his character is. But we want to reveal it in different ways and spend much more time focusing on this young high school kid in the MCU dealing with his powers.”

“There is a young kid [already] running around New York City in a homemade version of the Spider-Man costume in the MCU, you just don’t know it yet,“ he said, laughing.

So does does this mean Kevin Feige thinks the previous Spider-Man adapted certain aspects of the character correctly?

“Yeah. Sure, I think they did a lot of things really, really right. In particular the look of Spider-Man, and the emotion of Spider-Man, and the women in his life. I think there are a lot of things they haven’t done, which is A) his interactions with other heroes in the universe, because that was not possible, and also exploring more the notion, as the comics did for many, many years, as Ultimate Spider-Man did for ten years, [of] a much younger version of Spider-Man than we’ve seen in the movies. [The previous films] get him in and out of high school really fast.”

“And also the notion that he is very, very funny and very, very witty when he’s in that costume, swinging around,” Kevin Feige added. “Not as a standup comedian, obviously, but as almost his nervous energy, bothering the criminals with banter as much as with his powers. That’s something that I think we’re excited to explore.”

When asked about whether his compliments about “the look of Spider-Man” meant he favored any of the earlier iterations of the superhero’s costume, Kevin Feige responded, “Well, yeah, I mean look, I was more involved in the Raimi ones, and think they did a very good job. But that being said, we’ve already designed the costume, which is different than any of the ones that have come before. And yet ours is classic Spidey, as I think you’ll see.”

“Spider-Man we knew about when we were doing that announcement in October. It could have gone either way, and Marvel as you well know doesn’t announce announce anything officially until it’s set in stone. So we went forward with that Plan A in October, with the Plan B being, if it were to happen with Sony, how it would all shift,“ Feige told us, adding, “We’ve been thinking about it as long as we’ve been thinking about Phase Three.”

Alright, knowing all that was quoted above and that they are going all the way with the High School setting, I thought it would be interesting to have a new thread focusing on teenager(ish) actors to play a teenager 15-16 year old Peter Parker.

One of the most popular names out there for Spider-Man is Dylan O'Brien. But let's make a what if exercise here and consider that the information that we've been told and that what I'm telling you guys to is the truth, that Dylan O'Brien is off the Spider-Man race. Let's consider that for a moment, shall we?

Dylan O'Brien is a 23 year old at the moment, and he will be 24 coming next August. So when he started playing a HIGH SCHOOL TEENAGER in Teen Wolf, what's the age he was around? Well, he was around 19-20, since Teen Wolf started filming in 2011.

So... while actors around 15-17 can be a little too young, especially considering child labor laws and the amount of work that a Spider-Man actor would go through, if Marvel hypothetically found an actor around 18-20 years old, he would play a high schooler just as convincing as Dylan O'Brien did in Teen Wolf, don't you think?

Hereis what ElMayimbe said last Saturday regarding the casting of Spider-Man:

So Spider-Board, what I propose to you is this: knowing that Marvel is hypothetically casting teenager from 15 to 19, and having 20 years old as the oldest they would go for, having the age ranging from 15 year olds to 20 year olds, what are your favorite choices to play Spider-Man?

 

[PeterBenParker]

Dylan Everett and Asa Butterfield.

 

[Web-Head]

Tom Holland. He is currently filming Pilgrimage, so he might be out. Another thing is that he plays a 15 year old in the movie Backcountry and that is currently in post-production.

 

[Jekecy]

This age range is tough because there's not much to gleam from actors who have such limited acting experience. And the type of shows/movies I watch don't feature many young children, so I'm clueless in this regard (as I'm sure more are here as well).

 

[Talion]

I have added a poll and we can vote on more than one actor. I did my best to include everyone that were mentioned from that age range, but if somehow one of them isn't mentioned, please use the option "Other actors from the age range going from 15 year old to 20 year old", and please specify who this actor is.

 

[Airwings]

18-20 year olds, that leaves out the bunch of kids born 1999, as the studios don't go younger than 1998.


95-98 is the age group that's considered.

Here's a list:
Joel Courtney (96)
Asa Butterfield (97)
Bill Milner (95)
Troye Sivan (95)
Zachary Gordon (98)
Nathan Gamble (98)
Zach Mills (95)
Jacob Lofland (96)
Robbie Kay (95)
Liam James (96)
Tom Holland (96)
Thomas Horn (97)

Max Records (97) was the denied guy(?) and Lucas Hedges' birth year is unknown (it seems to be somewhere around the others in the list)

I just want to tell you guys something:

I still root for Isaac!!!

EDIT: Great poll!!!! But aren't Kodi and Sheridan absolutely out of the question? They're X-Men now!

 

[John Locke]

I vote for Isaac as well and he just turned 16 a couple days ago.

 

[Web-Head]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/21937426

 

[Airwings]

I voted for a lot of the choices, even the mutants (lol) and for the "other" option, I have actually four picks: Liam James, Hedges, Kay and Gamble.
My votes are the complete list I would be happy to see in the role,
However, just a couple are actually favorites. The rest of the votes are just decent and acceptable, people I wouldn't have anything against.

 

[JOE]

If they don't cast someone in their early 20's, which is what I think will happen, I think Charlie Rowe definitely looks the part.

 

[Airwings]

I vote for Isaac as well and he just turned 16 a couple days ago.

Come let me hug you!

 

[Airwings]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/21937426

Interesting

Check this out:

http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-R...-are-max-records-and-vincent-landay-interview

Q. If you were a Wild Thing for the day, what would you do?
Max Records: I’d be pretty psyched up on Spider-Man powers, being able to climb and shoot webs…
A. Are you a big comic fan?
Max Records: Yeah, sort of. Not of Spider-Man or anything like that, but of Bone by Jeff Smith and lots of [Japanese] manga… More like graphic novels, instead of superhero stories.

 

[Web-Head]

If they don't cast someone in their early 20's, which is what I think will happen, I think Charlie Rowe definitely looks the part.

I like Charlie Rowe, too. He apparently likes photography as well. Holland and Rowe are probably my top two choices.

 

[Talion]

Interesting

Check this out:

http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-R...-are-max-records-and-vincent-landay-interview

Yeah we've heard that Max Records got denied for Spidey, and I have no idea what he is up to now but I thought that wouldn't hurt to keep him as an option, since he fits the age.

 

[Airwings]

Yeah we've heard that Max Records got denied for Spidey, and I have no idea what he is up to now but I thought that wouldn't hurt to keep him as an option, since he fits the age.

He's back in the business, a thriller co-starring Christopher Lloyd

 

[Shanio1]

Asa for spidey!

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

Interesting

Check this out:

http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-R...-are-max-records-and-vincent-landay-interview

Hes not even a spidey fan

 

[Airwings]

Hes not even a spidey fan

He thinks the powerset is cool.
Why would he be denied if he didn't show any interest in the role? That's something to think about

 

[Webhead2006]

Talion did we really need another casting thread for peter. When we already have the general thread and cast the next spidey threads. Where we already been discussing everything surrounding Pete casting.

 

[harryoscop]

Asa and Chalamet

 

[Oscorp]

Talion did we really need another casting thread for peter. When we already have the general thread and cast the next spidey threads. Where we already been discussing everything surrounding Pete casting.

I think he kinda wants to rub it in people's face that Dylan might be out of the picture.

 

[harryoscop]

Lol, Max Records.

 

[Chris B]

Limiting the options to younger actors, then I'm supporting Charlie Rowe. He strikes me as a natural fit. Nick Robinson might not be bad but I'm not convinced that he can do comedy well. Asa Butterfield seems like a better fit for Harry, IMO.

 

[Pecola1]

I think he kinda wants to rub it in people's face that Dylan might be out of the picture.

He does... this doesn't deserve a new thread either way. Else we should make a thread for everyone elses theories on who Marvel is looking at... and that would be chaos. This thread should be closed and redirected to the original thread IMO. :/

 

[harryoscop]

He does... this doesn't deserve a new thread either way. Else we should make a thread for everyone elses theories on who Marvel is looking at... and that would be chaos. This thread should be closed and redirected to the original thread IMO. :/

No he doesn't.
He just wants to see who people want the most for a teenage Spider-Man.
Asa is winning.