--- description: "It’s a straight up high school movie. It’s about a 15 year old kid. This is the ground level of the marvel universe," director Jon Watts said. title: Spider-Man: Homecoming Will Be Like a John Hughes Superhero Movie image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3ee24be41fbc80a9/69889c940b72e3995e6ea3ff/spiderman-homecoming.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _Spider-Man: Homecoming_ Will Be Like a John Hughes Superhero Movie  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Jul 24, 2016 2:04 AM CUT  Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil WarMarvel  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Jul 24, 2016 2:04 AM CUT Marvel premiered the first footage for [_Spider-Man: Homecoming_](http://time.com/4291961/spider-man-new-movie-homecoming/ "undefined") at Comic-Con on Saturday, and it looked like, well, a high school movie. The superhero, played by [Tom Holland](http://time.com/4398048/tom-holland-spider-man-costume/ "undefined"), joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in _Captain America: Civil War_, but now he’s heading back to high school—though that hasn’t stopped him from watching YouTube videos of himself during class. “It’s a straight up high school movie. It’s about a 15 year old kid. This is the ground level of the Marvel Universe,” director Jon Watts said. “We know what it’s like to be a playboy billionaire…a Norse God…and now we’ll know what it’s like to have just gone through puberty.” The panel went on to compare it to a John Hughes film. In the clip, Peter Parker goes through his day at Midtown high school, doing science projects, trying to overhear which girls have crushes on which Avengers and sharing secret handshakes with his best friends. But his life isn’t totally normal: he battles villains, hangs out with Iron Man and encounters a dastardly villain in The Vulture (probably played by [Michael Keaton](http://time.com/4108070/michael-keaton-explains-batman-better-than-spiderman/ "undefined")). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4420755/spider-man-homecoming-footage-comic-con/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4420755/spider-man-homecoming-footage-comic-con/"},"headline":"Spider-Man: Homecoming Will Be Like a John Hughes Superhero Movie","datePublished":"2016-07-24T02:04:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:29:53.545Z","description":"\"It’s a straight up high school movie,\" says the director","url":"https://time.com/4420755/spider-man-homecoming-footage-comic-con/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3ee24be41fbc80a9/69889c940b72e3995e6ea3ff/spiderman-homecoming.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3ee24be41fbc80a9/69889c940b72e3995e6ea3ff/spiderman-homecoming.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"spiderman-homecoming","caption":"Marvel's Captain America: Civil War Spider-Man","creditText":"Marvel","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4420755/spider-man-homecoming-footage-comic-con/","name":"Spider-Man: Homecoming Will Be Like a John Hughes Superhero Movie"}}]}] ```