Spider-Man reboot will have no origin story

With Spider-Man coming home to Marvel, with an animated feature also set for the webslinger in a film-titan merger of Marvel’s successful comic film stint and Sony’s leaky webmail accountsSpider-Man’s film rights, most of us are wondering how much more of Spider-Man we’ll be seeing.

Because as comic fans who are already cued up on Spidey’s history, can all but stomach another version of Uncle Ben dying in another cinematic universe.

Well fear not, as Spider-Man‘s reboot director Jon Watts promises no origin story for a young Peter Parker during a recent interview with Empire:

There are only so many times you can kill Uncle Ben… I love the idea of making a coming-of-age high-school movie. We’re really going to see Peter Parker in high school and get deeper into that side of it. He’s just 15 now.

The new Spidey Marvel / Sony found in actor Tom Holland, to which Watts showed full support for the casting:

Tom was pretty perfect. He’s very athletic. He can actually do a backflip! If he didn’t already capture the spirit of the character, with that on top the kid is Spider-Man.