Here at IGN we occasionally like to showcase something from geekdom’s rich history — a pop-culture Time Capsule, if you will, that gives us a peek in to the past, perhaps providing a new appreciation for previous projects.
If you’d like, please check out the past few Time Capsules:
- Watch how the original X-Men fight scenes were created 20 years later
- Could a Batman Forever Director’s Cut restore this giant dream bat deleted scene?
- Remember when Will Forte, as MacGruber, wrestled a match in WWE?
- Celebrate Sky High’s 15th Anniversary with this great “making of” video from behind the scenes
- Check out Jared Leto’s Suicide Squad transformation into the Joker
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We’re not thwipping too far back in years for this week’s Time Capsule. Instead, let’s web a camera to a wall in an alleyway and take a peek at Tom Holland’s scruffy home tapes, screen tests, and effortless backflips from his Spider-Man auditions. The moments that made him a lock for the role of Peter Entertainment Parker.
It was a daunting task, not only becoming the third live-action Spider-Man in 15 years but also to do it for Captain America: Civil War – a pivotal, culminating movie filled with just about every important MCU hero. And Vision.
Yes, whoever landed the Spidey role would have to be a standout from the get-go. This young star would definitely have to stick in the mind of the casting director. Hahahaha. See…stick!…um. Look, we could have gone with something “Peter Tingle” related, but that feels wrong.
Casting director Sarah Finn and her team looked at over 7,000 tapes and then brought in over 200 young men to try out, eventually narrowing it down to Holland, who as you can see, was more than capable of holding his own with Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans in screen tests. His time with Evans even includes some fight moves in between the banter about Queens and Brooklyn and which borough has the better pizza. The answer is Brooklyn, obviously, because Steve used to make a little face on his pie using the pepperonis and olives and pretend it was Bucky. Watch Tom Holland’s Spidey screen-tests here.
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In other Web-Head news, it was revealed that Spider-Man will be coming to Marvel’s Avengers as a free PlayStation exclusive and that Miles Morales will get a “full arc” in the Spider-Man PS5 game.
While the MCU’s Phase 4 hasn’t officially kicked off yet, Tom Holland’s still kept busy by filming a new Netflix movie, The Devil All the Time, co-starring fellow MCUer Sebastian Stan and The Batman’s Robert Pattinson.
Need a Netflix fix? Check out what’s new to Netflix for August, our Umbrella Academy Season 2 review, our explainer on what happened at the end of Umbrella Academy Season 2, and discover where Netflix’s iconic “ta-dum” sound came from.
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Source: IGN.com Watch Tom Holland Absolutely Nail His Auditions for Spider-Man