Marvel/Sony, Here Are 8 Actors Who Could Play Spider-Man if You Insist on Peter Parker

Jill Pantozzi

Published: Feb 10, 2015 03:45 pm

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We’re still reeling from last night’s huge announcement – Sony and Marvel finally struck a deal to get Spider-Man into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But what’s still unclear is which direction Marvel will take him.

According to the release, Sony still has creative control. “Sony Pictures will continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films,” it read. And we know producers producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach said Peter Parker will always be their cinematic Spider-Man. The official release from Marvel yesterday also had a quote from Doug Belgrad, president, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, “This new level of collaboration is the perfect way to take Peter Parker’s story into the future.”

Now, we’d like to think “Peter Parker’s story into the future” leaves the door open for Miles Morales, who technically is continuing Peter’s story in the comic books. But we’re also not holding our breath for that to actually happen. So with that in mind, here are eight actors we hope Marvel and Sony will consider as their new Peter Parker.

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Jill Pantozzi

Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."