New SPIDER-MAN Series to Feature Peter Parker Again

The newest SPIDER-MAN films will take Marvel fans back to the beginning, with the shy kid they've always loved.

Sony's adaptaion of the superhero franchise, set for a 2017 premiere, will have a high school setting, as was previously announced, but now the company has confirmed that the film will yet again center around Peter Parker. Previous rumors indicated that Sony was toying with the idea of introducing a different SPIDER-MAN, like Mike Morales.

Marvel president Kevin Feige also confirmed that Parker will be a young highschooler.

"In terms of the age of an actor we'll eventually cast, I don't know," said Feig. "In terms of the age of what we believe Peter Parker is, I'd say 15-16 is right."

While both previous SPIDER-MAN franchises were initially set in high school, Feige ways they want to be sure to keep Parker in high school in sequels to allow for new plots, which seems fitting considering there have already been five films depicting the superhero within the last 13 years.

"Some of my favorite Spider-Man arcs and Spider-Man stories, he's in high school for a lot of it," Feige adds. "We want to explore that. That also makes him very, very different from any of our other characters in the [Marvel Cinematic Universe], which is something else we want to explore: how unique he is when now put against all these other characters."

Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, Spider-Man first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962). Lee and Ditko conceived the character as an orphan being raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, and as a teenager, having to deal with the normal struggles of adolescence in addition to those of a costumed crime-fighter. Spider-Man's creators gave him super strength and agility, the ability to cling to most surfaces, shoot spider-webs using wrist-mounted devices of his own invention, which he calls "web-shooters," and react to danger quickly with his "spider-sense," enabling him to combat his foes.

When Spider-Man first appeared in the early 1960s, teenagers in superhero comic books were usually relegated to the role of sidekick to the protagonist. The Spider-Man series broke ground by featuring Peter Parker, the high school student behind Spider-Man's secret identity and with whose "self-obsessions with rejection, inadequacy, and loneliness" young readers could relate. Unlike previous teen heroes such as Bucky and Robin, Spider-Man had no superhero mentor like Captain America and Batman; he thus had to learn for himself that "with great power there must also come great responsibility"-a line included in a text box in the final panel of the first Spider-Man story but later retroactively attributed to his guardian, the late Uncle Ben.

Spider-Man is one of the most popular and commercially successful superheroes. As Marvel's flagship character and company mascot, he has appeared in many forms of media, including several animated and live-action television shows, Syndicated newspaper comic strips, and a series of films starring Tobey Maguire as the hero in the first three movies. Andrew Garfield took over the role of Spider-Man in a reboot of the films. Reeve Carney starred as Spider-Man in the 2010 Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Spider-Man placed 3rd on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time in 2011, behind DC Comics characters Superman and Batman.

Source: Variety

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