With Spider-Man: No Way Home nearing its release and Tom Holland's tenure playing the titular wall-crawler nearly up, the actor says he's perfectly fine with the Marvel Cinematic Universe bringing in a different iconic character to don the mask.
In a GQ profile, Holland explained that, despite producer Amy Pascal's attempts at persuasion, he doesn't want to do Spider-Man films forever. "Maybe it is time for me to move on. Maybe what's best for Spider-Man is that they do a Miles Morales film. I have to take Peter Parker into account as well, because he is an important part of my life," the No Way Home star admitted. At 25 years old, Holland -- who has portrayed Spidey since age 19 -- feels that, "If I'm playing Spider-Man after I'm 30, I've done something wrong."
Currently, Miles Morales has yet to appear in live-action, despite already hitting the big screen in 2018's Oscar-winning animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the sequel to which is expected to release next year. However, Holland's first solo MCU film Spider-Man: Homecoming did feature a brief interaction with Miles' uncle Aaron Davis, whose actor, Donald Glover, not only voiced Miles in Ultimate Spider-Man, but also served as a major inspiration for the character's initial design. Davis and his alter-ego, the Prowler, both appeared in Into the Spider-Verse and the PlayStation game Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, with the latter delving further into his and Miles complicated familial and hero/anti-villain relationships.
Holland has gone on record describing Spider-Man: No Way Home as "the end of a franchise" since he officially joined the MCU in Captain America: Civil War as part of Disney and Sony's rights deal. He's also said that, whomever Marvel eventually casts to replace him in future movies, Holland will "take it upon myself to teach them about the responsibilities of being Spider-Man."
The newly-released second trailer for No Way Home has built up this conclusion in the form of a giant, inter-dimensional battle, with a failed spell attempt by Peter and Doctor Strange breaking the multiverse and pulling supervillains from the Sam Raimi and Mark Webb films into their own. Such villains include Alfred Molina's Doctor Octopus, Jamie Foxx's Electro and Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin, as well as Sandman and Lizard. It's still unclear whether No Way Home will reference Sony's Venom: Let There Be Carnage, whose ending set up an official MCU crossover.
Spider-Man: No Way Home swings into theaters on Dec. 17.
Source: GQ