The superhero film genre is on fire these days, with each title released almost guaranteed to earn well into the hundreds of millions. That’s why Marvel and Sony Pictures are pushing forward with a new Spider-Man series, one that will supposedly take place over three, maybe four movies (each covering a year of Peter Parker’s high school), according to Deadline. But in order to make sure you’ve got a great series ahead of you, you need to make sure that the first one is a success. That’s why the studios are carefully considering who should direct the film, searching for someone who can tell a, “…coming of age tale [that] is John Hughes humor and emotion, plus all the superhero stuff.”
Here’s who the studios are currently considering: Jonathan Levine, the man behind Warm Bodies; Ted Melfi the writer/director of St. Vincent; Pitch Perfect director Jason Moore; John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein of Vacation; and Jared Hess, who wrote and directed Napoleon Dynamite.
The role of Spider-Man has not been set but there is a serious possibility that it will be determined before a director is chosen as the character is set to appear in Captain America: Civil War, which comes out next year.