Tom Holland is Sony’s new friendly neighborhood Spider-Man
Variety reports that Sony has anointed Tom Holland, best known as “the kid who got swept away by the tsunami in The Impossible,” as its next (movie) Spider-Man. Holland beat out several other, slightly more famous gangly teen actors for the role, including the kid from The Fault In Our Stars, The kid from Ender’s Game, the kid from Interstellar, and the kid from The Killing. (He is, however, the only former Billy Elliott cast member to appear on the list). Jon Watts, another newcomer to the superhero big leagues whose film Cop Car premiered at Sundance this year, has been hired to direct the next standalone Spider-Man film.