Marvel has narrowed down its list of possible directors for the studio's first "Spider-Man" movie and a final decision could be made as soon as next week.
Five directors have made the short list for the next iteration of the web-slinging superhero reboot that will come from a partnership between Marvel and Sony Pictures, according to Deadline.
The candidates include Jonathan Levine, writer-director of "Warm Bodies;" Ted Melfi, writer-director of "St. Vincent;" Jason Moore, director of the first "Pitch Perfect;" John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, directors of upcoming "Vacation" reboot; and Jared Hess, writer-director of "Napoleon Dynamite."
A final decision could come as soon as the end of next week, according to Deadline. A casting announcement for the new Spidey will likely come around the same time, so he can join "Captain America: Civil War," which starts production soon.
Rumors speculate that Marvel President Kevin Feige and his producing partner at Sony, Amy Pascal, want to stretch Peter Parker's story over three to four movies that would follow him through his high school years. The movie would start after the radioactive spider bites him, thereby sparing the audience a third Spider-Man origin story on the big screen.
The reboot would also be set in the vein of a John Hughes movie - a coming of age story that combines "humor and emotion" along with the typical superhero action.
The untitled "Spider-Man" film will premiere on July 28, 2017.
