'I Would Have Been So Miscast': Hamilton Star Lin-Manuel Miranda Reveals Surprising MCU Spider-Man Role He Turned Down

Spider-Man: Homecoming astir starred Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, the award-winning songwriter and histrion has revealed.

Speaking via the Happy Sad Confused podcast astir 10 years on, Miranda confirmed for the archetypal clip that helium had turned down the relation of Spider-Man villain Vulture, yet played Michael Keaton.

It's hard to ideate anyone but Keaton successful the relation present — and Miranda himself said that helium believed helium would person been "deeply miscast" arsenic Vulture — but the predominant Disney collaborator suggested helium inactive would person loved to instrumentality part, had the timing been better.

"I would person been miscast," Miranda began. "It was Vulture, and [Marvel Studios boss] Kevin Feige told maine the full crippled [of Spider-Man: Homecoming] implicit the phone.

"'And they get to the doorway and it's her dad'," Miranda continued, recalling Feige telling him astir the infinitesimal that Vulture's concealed individuality is revealed. "I went 'OH!' implicit the phone. I was the canary successful the ember mine," helium added, claiming that Feige aboriginal told him that his shocked absorption was the infinitesimal helium realized that the movie was going to work.

But contempt being impressed with the movie's plot, Miranda felt helium had to crook down the relation arsenic it began shooting "literally arsenic [I] stepped disconnected the signifier doing Hamilton" aft a astir 18-month run, which had near him successful request of a break.

"I went, 'I would truly similar this, I truly similar these movies, but I would similar to enactment married, truthful I cannot bash this.' And god, it would person been terrible," Miranda continued. "Michael Keaton was perfect, they recovered precisely who they needed. And I'm precise glad. I person nary regrets, I needed a abrogation truthful badly, and I deliberation I would person been profoundly miscast."

Released successful 2017, Spider-Man: Homecoming was the archetypal solo outing for Tom Holland's instrumentality connected Spidey, and a immense deed for Marvel. This period sees the motorboat of Holland's 4th Spider-Man movie, Brand New Day, which is expected to unfastened with the year's champion container bureau truthful far. Over the weekend, Feige suggested that the movie would diagnostic an quality by Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova, alongside an tremendous swathe of different Marvel characters — including whoever Sadie Sink is playing.

Could Miranda person different ace astatine the MCU successful future? Asked whether helium had immoderate different Disney-backed projects connected the horizon, Miranda claimed helium did not — though was keen to enactment connected a signifier mentation of Pixar movie Encanto erstwhile helium had clip to bash so.

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