There's a new “Spider-Man” in town
Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios are proud to announce that after a full worldwide casting search, Tom Holland will play Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the next “Spider-Man” film, to release on July 28, 2017. The film will be directed by Jon Watts, director of “Cop Car”, the upcoming thriller that made its debut earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Marvel and Sony Pictures, and producers Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal conducted an extensive search for both the actor and the director. The studios and producers were impressed by Holland's performances in “The Impossible”, “Wolf Hall”, and the upcoming "In the Heart of the Sea" and by a series of complex screen tests. Following Marvel's tradition of working with the brightest next wave of directors, Watts also went through multiple meetings with Feige, Pascal, and the studio, before winning the job.
Sony Pictures will finance and release worldwide the next installment of the mega “Spider-Man” franchise on July 28, 2017, in a film co-produced by Kevin Feige and his expert team at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago. Together, they will collaborate on a new creative direction for the Web-Slinger.
“Spider-Man”, embraced all over the world, is the most successful franchise in the history of Sony Pictures, with the five films having taken in more than $4 billion worldwide.
Source: Marvel
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