Update: December 8, 2016
New Story Details and First Official Image from SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
Directed by Jon Watts (
Cop Car), the coming-of-age story features Peter arker (Tom Holland) attending his high school for gifted kids, trying to impress his new benefactor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and also dealing with a pesky arch enemy, the Vulture (Michael Keaton).
For Holland, it's less an action movie and "more a character piece about this kid who's struggling to talk to girls and also struggling to save the city," says the 20-year-old British actor.
Homecoming begins with Peter wrestling with a return to his normal life in Queens after being recruited by Stark and surviving his first huge superhero battle (see:
Civil War). Taking the subway to school again for his sophomore year is tough for the kid.
“He literally just went to Europe with the coolest clique of them all,” says co-producer Eric Hauserman Carroll. “And now he’s back with the academic decathlon and the mathletes and going, ‘What am I doing here?’ ”
But
Homecoming is skipping the origin story. The filmmakers want to focus on his life as a teen crushing on girls and navigating his formative years, albeit with really cool abilities.
“This is really a movie where Spider-Man’s not the finished article,” Holland says. “He really does learn and he makes massive mistakes. It’s nice to see a kid do that and then try to rectify those mistakes.”
The young supporting cast includes Jacob Batalon as Peter’s best friend Ned Leeds, Laura Harrier as his dream girl Liz Allan, Tony Revolori as bully Flash Thompson and Zendaya as their classmate Michelle.
“The first time we see the Vulture is terrifying,” Holland teases. “It’s like a horror movie: really scary, very intense and shocking.”
The Spidey foe is different than other Marvel baddies such as Thanos and Ultron, Watts says. “It’s fun to think that if Spider-Man is a regular kid who becomes a superhero, there’s got to be a bunch of regular guys who become supervillains, too.”
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