--- description: And, yes, he's white title: This British Teenager Has Been Chosen to Play Spider-Man image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt228d8148d404b355/698857f835ba6fe7b7c0de2c/gettyimages-159042005.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 # Here's Your New Spider-Man  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Jun 23, 2015 5:33 PM CUT  Tom Holland arrives at the 24th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival at Palm Springs Convention Center on January 5, 2013 in Palm Springs, California. Tom Holland arrives at the 24th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival at Palm Springs Convention Center on January 5, 2013 in Palm Springs, California.Steve Granitz — WireImage  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Jun 23, 2015 5:33 PM CUT British actor Tom Holland (_The Impossible_) will play Peter Parker in the next _Spider-Man_ franchise, Marvel Studios and Sony [announced](http://marvel.com/news/movies/24758/sony%5Fpictures%5Fand%5Fmarvel%5Fstudios%5Ffind%5Ftheir%5Fspider-man%5Fstar%5Fand%5Fdirector "undefined") Tuesday, defying some fans’ calls for a non-white Spidey. This will be the second reboot of the Spider-Man series since Tobey Maguire played the character in the early 2000s. Andrew Garfield put on the iconic blue and red outfit for the 2012 rethink and now Sony, which has long held the movie right to Spider-Man, will team up with Marvel Studios to incorporate Spidey into the successful _Avengers_ films. Holland, 19, will likely make his first appearance in _Captain America: Civil War_ in 2016 with a standalone film premiering the following year, to be directed by Jon Watts (_Cop Car_). **MORE:** [This Map Shows How All the Future Marvel Movies Are Connected](http://time.com/3841234/avengers-age-of-ultron-marvel-movies-next/ "undefined") The casting decision comes just a day after Marvel Comics [announced](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/marvel-inclusion-biracial-spider-man-article-1.2265591 "undefined") that Miles Morales, not Peter Parker, would be the one and only Spider-Man in the all-new Marvel Universe this fall. Morales, unlike Parker, is black and Hispanic. Some fans of the comic books lobbied online for Marvel Studios to make a similar pivot and diversify its mainly-white _Avengers_ cast when it rebooted the Spider-Man movies, with a long-running campaign to draft Donald Glover, the _Community_ actor who [voices](http://time.com/3182022/donald-glover-spider-man/ "undefined") the hero in the animated series _The Amazing Spider-Man_, for the role. The actor [told](https://www.yahoo.com/movies/donald-glover-will-leave-the-spider-man-111592977727.html "undefined") _Yahoo Movies_ he’d be willing to take the role and a #donald4spiderman hashtag trended both before Garfield won the role and again before Holland was named the latest iteration. ### 5 Amazing Spider-Man Gifs That Jump Right At You  Columbia Pictures; Gif by Joseph C. Lin—TIME  Columbia Pictures; Gif by Joseph C. Lin—TIME  Columbia Pictures; Gif by Joseph C. Lin—TIME  Columbia Pictures; Gif by Joseph C. Lin—TIME  Columbia Pictures; Gif by Joseph C. 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