Spider-Man Producer Hopes Tom Holland Sticks Around in His Role 'Forever' — Even Though He's Already Discussed Handing Over the Marvel Character to a Younger Star

Veteran Spider-Man shaper Amy Pascal has said she hopes Tom Holland volition play the relation "forever" — contempt the histrion having already discussed handing implicit the portion to a younger star.

Holland is of people acceptable to look successful this month's Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and has privately suggested helium volition instrumentality for astatine slightest 1 much sequel. Publicly, however, Holland has been vocal astir wanting to yet manus implicit the Spider-Man mantle, and adjacent suggested actors to instrumentality connected the relation successful future.

Sony seems keen to support Holland astir — perchance with an oculus connected the information that Brand New Day looks acceptable to go enormously successful, with the movie's trailer mounting a caller ticker grounds that not adjacent Avengers: Doomsday could beat.

Asked astir the anticipation of Holland hanging up his Spidey disguise astatine immoderate constituent successful the future, and whether Brand New Day was intended arsenic portion of a trilogy oregon its ain standalone thing, Pascal made it wide she'd similar to spot the histrion proceed for a agelong portion yet.

"I deliberation each movie has to beryllium its ain thing, nary substance what," Pascal told Collider. "From the precise beginning, Kevin [Feige, Marvel Studios boss] and I person been moving unneurotic connected these movies, we realized this morning, for 27 years, and each clip we acceptable retired to archer different saga successful Peter Parker's life, it has to beryllium capable to basal connected its ain completely. Having said that, we anticipation Tom's going to beryllium our Spider-Man forever."

Holland archetypal appeared arsenic Spider-Man erstwhile helium was aged conscionable 19, backmost successful 2026's Captain America: Civil War, and has grown up arsenic a regular fixture of the MCU. Now aged 30, thing has officially been announced astir his ongoing engagement beyond Brand New Day, though Sony has suggested this could beryllium the commencement of a caller epoch for Holland's character, and there's a wide anticipation among fans that he'll popular up successful 2027's Avengers: Secret Wars.

But however galore much Spider-Man movies volition Holland look successful aft that? Infamously, the histrion stated backmost successful 2021 that if helium was "playing Spider-Man aft I’m 30, I’ve done thing wrong." Reminded of that punctuation this year, Holland told GQ that helium present needed to "maybe... alteration the punctuation to 37," and suggested his remark had been influenced by him "trying to leverage Sony and scare them into reasoning I wasn’t going to bash Spider-Man 4."

Still, backmost successful May, Holland said helium wanted to assistance acceptable up a caller epoch for the Spider-Man franchise, shepherding successful a caller Spider-Man oregon Spider-Woman arsenic his replacement. "For whoever's next, whether that is simply a Miles Morales oregon a Spider-Gwen oregon a Spider-Woman oregon thing similar that, I would emotion to beryllium a portion of mounting up the adjacent chapter," Holland said.

Then, past month, Holland again discussed passing the Spider-Man torch to another, younger actor, this clip suggesting the prima of Netflix play Adolescence for the iconic role. "Owen Cooper would beryllium awesome," Holland said of the 16-year-old British histrion who played teenage execution fishy Jamie Miller. "Obviously he’s super-talented and the speech of the municipality close now."

Has Holland been trying to leverage Sony again up of a woody for Spider-Man 5? However agelong helium stays successful the role, it sounds similar Sony is keen helium sticks astir for now. In the meantime, there's Spider-Man: Brand New Day to look guardant to, which lands successful theaters connected July 31. Yesterday brought the movie's last trailer, which you should spell ticker present for a useful recap connected Peter Parker's travel truthful far.

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