The next Spider Man is going to be younger.
Sony Pictures is getting ready to put out a casting call to find its next web slinger. The plan is for the character to go back to high school in the next films, according to sources with knowledge of the studio’s plans.
Several actors already have been mentioned as being considered for the role, including “The Maze Runner” and “Teen Wolf’s” Dylan O’Brien and the “Percy Jackson” franchise’s Logan Lerman. Lerman most recently co-starred in Sony’s “Fury.”
Sony has put the character of Spider Man, played by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, in Midtown High School before, but the plan is to spend more time in the setting and explore his awkward relationship with other students while fighting crime out of the classroom.
Midtown is a major setting in the comicbooks, and Peter Parker also returns to the school to become a science teacher in storylines.
Sony needs to move fast, as Marvel wants to introduce the new actor playing Spider-Man in “Captain America: Civil War,” in theaters in 2016, before launching his own solo franchise at Sony in 2017.
