

Ditko’s angular metal debris on top Spidey and water coming down in front of his face.” Come on, Spider-Man.įor me, that was the moment that I realized what I was missing out of the previous Spider-Man movies. “To me, that is when Torn Holland truly becomes Spider-Man. Anyway, that’s the moment. But it wasn’t until Spider-Man: Homecoming that we said, ‘Oh, we’re doing it,'” Feige said. Ditko’s ‘lifting the rubble,’ and it has stuck with me my whole life, and from the moment I joined Marvel Studios, I was like, ‘We should do that in the movies.’ There’s a pit at the end of Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man where he kind of lifts a heavy place off of them at the pier where Doc Ock is making his machine. Feige did an interview with editor Nick Lowe that’s part of The Amazing Spider-Man #900 issue (via The Direct) and there talked about some of the more iconic moments in Spider-Man’s film career, but specifically the moment that is pivotal to Holland’s arc. And while he is no stranger to getting live-action versions on the big screen, it has been a long time coming for fans of the comic Spidey to feel like we were watching a teenager grapple with the mantle of Spider-Man the way we see it in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.īut then came Tom Holland’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, and with it came a version of Peter Parker that actually felt like we were watching a child become a hero, mainly because Holland was 19 years old when he was filming the movie, which, in comparison to previous Spider-Man actors Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, is significantly younger than previous iterations of the character, and the MCU has been playing it that way.Īll of this culminated in one of the most important scenes in Holland’s films, and now, years later, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has highlighted the movie and why one scene in particular in Spider-Man: Homecoming was so important to the character. Spider-Man has been a staple of Marvel Comics since the ’60s, and he has been a teenager and a young adult trying his best to be the hero that New York needs.
