{"id":23837,"date":"2015-06-23T13:59:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/?p=23837"},"modified":"2015-06-24T08:11:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T15:11:21","slug":"tom-holland-officially-playing-spider-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/tom-holland-officially-playing-spider-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel and Sony Finally Find Their New Spider-Man in Young English Actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tom-holland-cast-as-spiderman-announced-final.jpg\" rel=\"prettyphoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tom-holland-cast-as-spiderman-announced-final-640x384.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Holland Spider-Man\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tom-holland-cast-as-spiderman-announced-final-640x384.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tom-holland-cast-as-spiderman-announced-final.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tom-holland-cast-as-spiderman-announced-final-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Marvel&#038;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Marvel<\/strong><\/a> was looking at Asa Butterfield to be their new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Spider-Man&#038;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Spider-Man<\/strong><\/a> but that is no longer the case.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, <strong>Tom Holland<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/spider-man-finds-tom-holland-794761\" target=\"_blank\">officially<\/a> your new friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!<\/p>\n<p>The relative unknown actor is best known for his role in <em>The Impossible<\/em> and his stint on the miniseries <em>Wolf Hall.<\/em> He can next be seen in Ron Howard&#8217;s <em>In the Heart of the Sea.<\/em> However, his <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/tomholland2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Instagram<\/a> shows that he already has the moves to play Spidey.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long search for the new webslinger but the 19 year-old English actor landed the part after extensive testing under Marvel president <strong>Kevin Feige<\/strong> and <em>Spider-Man<\/em> producer <strong>Amy Pascal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Peter Parker will get a new solo film in 2017 from Sony and under director <strong>Jon Watts<\/strong> (which has been promised <em>not<\/em> to be an origin story), we&#8217;ll first see Holland in the role in the upcoming (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/2015\/05\/07\/marvel-captain-america-3-begins-production\/\" target=\"_blank\">crowded<\/a>) <em>Captain America: Civil War.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After a lot of speculation and fans voicing who they wanted to be the new Spider-Man, this is an unsurprising choice. Next year we&#8217;ll find out if he&#8217;s up to the task!<\/p>\n<p><em>Captain America: Civil War,<\/em> directed by Joe and Anthony Russo is set to hit theaters on May 6, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited to see another Spider-Man? How do you think Tom Holland will do? Sound off in the comments!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"4\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf\/\/42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB\/lQPb79drWOyJVa\/DAvg9B\/rLB4cC+Nqgdz\/TvBbBnr6GBReqn\/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I\/fZou\/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/yrQP0iMdmk\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_top\">Boom!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A video posted by \u270c\ufe0f (@tomholland2013) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2015-02-04T10:26:02+00:00\">Feb 4, 2015 at 2:26am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We reported that Marvel was looking at Asa Butterfield to be their new Spider-Man but that is no longer the case. As of today, Tom Holland is officially your new friendly neighborhood Spider-Man! The relative unknown actor is best known for his role in The Impossible and his stint on the miniseries Wolf Hall. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":23850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,388,558],"tags":[3145,112,1215,1980,1979,406,2892],"yst_prominent_words":[9103,8128,21220,15789,8116,6232,15788,15785,19949,12840,22833,11995,6073,22729,7480,6116,6217,12611,22832,9000],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23837"}],"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=23837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23934,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23837\/revisions\/23934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23837"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}