nerdy.mango A Blog By Milk & Mango

Nerds are finally getting what we want! Even if it is not exactly what we wanted. Donald Glover, a few days ago, was just cast in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming,' the latest Spider-Man reboot starring Tom Holland. His role in the film is being kept a secret, and it seems Marvel is doing this intentionally. And when the director, Jon Watts was asked about Donald Glover's role in the movie, by the Daily Beast, he said:

“I can’t talk about anything like that! That would have been so amazing, if I’d just completely spilled some secret like that by accident. I probably can’t say anything. There’s a little sniper dot on me at all times, just in case. They’ll hit me with a tranq dart.”

So, obviously, this secret is a big one, maybe even bigger than Spider-Man showing up in 'Captain America: Civil War.' The only thing we can do know is that we know nothing, so all we can do is speculate.

Donald Glover has expressed interest in being in a Spider-Man adaptation ever since they started casting for 'The Amazing Spider-Man' starring Andrew Garfield, back in 2010. Twitter, including myself, went crazy and celebrated the idea of Donald Glover playing Miles Morales, the current Spider-Man in the Ultimate Universe of Marvel Comics. There were Reddit debates, Twitter campaigns, and petitions supporting the idea of Glover playing Spider-Man, but in the end the execs and producers at Sony said that Peter Parker is Spider-Man and that would not change anytime soon. Personally I would have loved to see someone else, especially Miles Morales, take the mantle of Spider-Man on the big screen, because like I have said before, change in comic books and comic book movies is good and keeps them fresh. They have not even announced what kind of role Donald Glover will have in the movie, but people are still extremely excited about his being in the movie and the thought of change.

What role could Glover possibly be playing? He might be too old to be a peer of Peter Parker's, because the movie will be centered around Parker's teenage years, and he might even be too old to be Miles Morales, unless they stray from the source material and make Miles a young adult and not teenager (God I hope they stray from the source material this one time). There have been unsubstantiated rumors that he would be a love interest of Aunt May or even a secondary villain. Again those rumors are unsubstantiated, and, hopefully, wrong, because I really want to see Miles Morales on the big screen. Honestly, I just want to see a Black Panther/Black Spider-Man team-up movie. Make it happen Marvel!