As of now it’s being Badass Digest recently said Tom Holland is still a possible contender, but Buttefield is the first name on most everyone’s lips and now we have a shortlist of directors Sony is looking out to lead the new Spider-Man charge.
Deadline reports the list of possible contenders as Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies), Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite), Ted Melfi (St. Vincent), Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect) and John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein who are directing the upcoming Vacation reboot at Warner Bros.
Deadline adds an interesting note to their reporting saying Sony is looking to go with a tone matching that of a John Hughes (The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off), as the plan is to keep Peter Parker in high school a lot longer than he was in previous cinematic iterations of the character, hence the search for a younger actor this time around.
Looking at the list of names, they basically all say to me that Sony wants to hire someone like Marc Webb, who just directed The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, as long as they don’t hire the actual Marc Webb.
Levine seems like the most interesting choice to me, but that’s only because he has a larger slate of films to judge, otherwise… whatever, it’s not like it matters anyway as this thing will be just as micro-managed as all the other Marvel movies now and with Marvel’s Kevin Feige now involved with Sony… good luck.
