{"id":21759,"date":"2015-05-15T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=21759"},"modified":"2023-01-19T12:26:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T20:26:34","slug":"asa-butterfield-might-be-the-next-spider-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/asa-butterfield-might-be-the-next-spider-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Wants This Young Actor to Be Their New Spider-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Spider-Man&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Spider-Man<\/strong><\/a> finally went back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2015\/02\/10\/spider-man-coming-to-marvel-studios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">home to Marvel<\/a>, the question has been: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2015\/02\/24\/non-white-spider-man-in-marvel-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who will play<\/a> the web crawler? We might finally have our answer. Many sources are reporting that the role is most likely going to <em>Hugo&#8217;s<\/em> <strong>Asa Butterfield.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Butterfield has been a frontrunner for a while now, along with the likes of Tom Holland (<em>In The Heart of The Sea<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>While no contract has been signed, negotiations are happening and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Marvel&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Marvel<\/strong><\/a> is apparently rooting for him. <em>The Hollywood Reporter&#8217;s<\/em> Borys Kit tweeted this yesterday:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Are they done testing? What I know: There certainly is no offer. Yet. What I also know: There are certainly many rooting for Asa.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Borys Kit (@Borys_Kit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Borys_Kit\/status\/598969631122980864\">May 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely Butterfield is just testing for the role right now, but a lot of signs are pointing that we could get confirmation soon. The same thing happened with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2014\/12\/05\/doctor-strange-jessica-jones-casting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We know that Marvel is going to be introducing Peter Parker as a teenager (reports say around 15-16), and Butterfield fits the role as a young Spider-Man nicely. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see his dynamic with the other characters, given he&#8217;ll easily be the youngest.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear when we&#8217;ll first see Spider-Man in a Marvel film, but many expect to see him in <em>Captain America: Civil War,<\/em> which is currently filming.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Will Asa Butterfield make a good Spider-Man? Sound off in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Spider-Man finally went back home to Marvel, the question has been: who will play the web crawler? We might finally have our answer. Many sources are reporting that the role is most likely going to Hugo&#8217;s Asa Butterfield. Butterfield has been a frontrunner for a while now, along with the likes of Tom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,388,558],"tags":[2771,3145,112,1216,1215,1980,406],"yst_prominent_words":[21527,21524,21529,21525,21526,21530,7008,6073,7480,21528,6116,6217,21531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21759"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68500,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21759\/revisions\/68500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21759"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}