SPIDER-MAN Will be in His Mid-Teens and Focus on How "Young Doesn't Quite Fit In"



Since Marvel Studios and Sony announced they were teaming up to bring Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there have been a few silly rumors bouncing around the Internet. Some about if it would be Peter Parker wearing the suit and others on how Spidey wouldn't be Caucasian.

Not that anything needed to be confirmed, since the official Marvel and Sony press release clearly spoke about Peter Parker, but Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has confirmed all of those ridiculous rumors were not credible and completely false.

In an interview with Collider, Feige talked about having Parker in the MCU and how he will be a mid-teens kid.

“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.”

The Marvel executive then spoke about how he cannot wait to have a Spider-Man movie with a bigger focus on a high school kid who doesn't fit in with the MCU's older heroes.

“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.”