Spider-Man: Homecoming is going to be a big deal for all parties involved. It will be the third official iteration of the web-slinger since 2002, with the second one coming only four years ago. So to say that Marvel needs to get this right is an understatement coinciding with the fact that Spider-Man is arguably the comic empire's most popular brand. Assuming that Homecoming is a success, Marvel has been looking at ways to keep the franchise going past the first entry.
In order to do that, Marvel Studios president, Kevin Feige told Collider that the creative team has gone back and looked at another successful narrative from which to draw inspiration from. He said:
"Should we be able to make more after that? Sure. This is sophomore year, is the next one junior year? Is the next one senior year? Is there a summer break between each of those? I don’t know what, but it was sort of how do we do a journey for Peter not dissimilar for what the students of Hogwarts would go through each of their years, which was one of the early ideas we had for the movies."
If Marvel is looking at Harry Potter for inspiration, that lends credence to the idea that this new iteration of Spider-Man could stay in high school throughout all of the movies. Each Harry Potter book represented a year that the students were in Hogwarts, which was very effective because it was able to convey every character's progression in a meaningful way. It was almost like watching (reading about) them grow up.
Perhaps Marvel is thinking the same thing; that these new films will take the audience through Peter's formative years, letting us watch him grow from a freshman boy into a man by the end. At least, as much as you can quantify 18 years old equalling being a man.
Here's hoping that Spider-Man: Homecoming, which releases on July 7th, 2017, is the Spider-Man movie we've been hoping for since Tobey McGuire's iteration fell off the wagon.
Source: [Collider]
