Move Over, Andrew Garfield! 19-Year-Old English Actor Tom Holland Is The New Spiderman

Little-known English actor Tom Holland has been picked to play the web-slinging superhero in the next Spider-Man film, which is due for release in July 2017, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios said on Tuesday.

Holland, 19, will play Spider-Man’s teenage alter ego Peter Parker as a high-school age student in the upcoming, yet-to-be titled film. He follows in the footsteps of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, who have portrayed the comic book superhero at older stages of his life in the five previous movies. Holland played Naomi Watt’s son in the 2012 tsunami drama ‘The Impossible’ and recently appeared in the British television miniseries ‘Wolf Hall.’

Writer Stan Lee and writer/artist Steve Ditko created the fictional superhero character, who first appeared in comics in 1962. The “Spider-Man” franchise has earned more than $4 billion at the box office worldwide, making it the most successful franchise in the history of Sony Pictures.