What Marvel Studios Wants in Their Version of SPIDER-MAN in the Marvel Cinematic Universe



Fans are getting a young-looking high school teen Peter Parker in the Marvel Studios produced SPIDER-MAN movie. Actor Tom Holland looks the part but how will he portray this new iteration of Spider-Man?

Studio president Kevin Feige shed some light on this topic with the LATimes.

"You look at the early comic books of Spider-Man and what was so great about what Stan Lee and Steve Ditko did was they said what if one of the most powerful heroes we have is a high school kid who also has to do homework and isn't a billionaire, or isn't a genius scientist, or isn't a trained assassin, or isn't another scientist who had an accident but is a kid? 
"That the younger he was, the more truer he was to the original Spider-Man comic book stories and also the more unique and different he would be in comparison to the other Marvel heroes."

Go back and read those old 1960s Amazing Spider-Man comics as well as the Ultimate Spider-Man comic book series from the early 2000s by creator Brian Michael Bendis to really get a taste of the version of Spider-Man Feige wants to see on the big screen.

"The one thing that hasn't been able to be explored in the other five ['Spider-Man'] movies is his relationship to the broader Marvel Universe and that's something that was exciting to us. To go back to those Stan Lee, Steve Ditko origin tales of having him be younger and that dichotomy with dealing with the rest, and also in Brian Michael Bendis' 'Ultimate Spider-Man.'"