Peter Parker tries to balance being the hero Spider-Man with his high school life under guidance of Tony Stark as he deals with the threat of the Vulture.[274][275]
On February 9, 2015, Sony Pictures and Marvel announced that Sony would be releasing a Spider-Man film co-produced by Marvel Studios president Feige and Amy Pascal, with Sony Pictures continuing to own, finance, distribute, and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films.[3] In April 2015, Feige confirmed the character would be Peter Parker and added that Marvel had been working to add Spider-Man to the MCU since at least October 2014, when they announced their full slate of Phase Three films, saying, "Marvel doesn't announce anything officially until it's set in stone.
So we went forward with that Plan A in October, with the Plan B being, if [the deal] were to happen with Sony, how it would all shift. We've been thinking about [the Spider-Man film] as long as we've been thinking about Phase Three."[276] In June 2015, Tom Holland was cast in the role of Spider-Man and Jon Watts was hired to direct the film,[213] and the next month, John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein were hired to write the screenplay.[277] Additional screenwriters include Watts & Christopher Ford and Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers.[214] In April 2016, the title was revealed to be Spider-Man: Homecoming.[278] Production began in June 2016 at Pinewood Atlanta,[279][280] and concluded in October 2016.[281] Spider-Man: Homecoming premiered on June 28, 2017 in Hollywood,[282] and was released in the United Kingdom on July 5,[283] and the United States on July 7, 2017
United Kingdom on July 5,[283] and the United States on July 7, 2017.[284]
The film is set several months after the events of Captain America: Civil War,[285] which is eight years after the events of The Avengers.[286] In April 2016, Feige confirmed that characters from previous MCU films would appear in the film,[287] with Robert Downey Jr. confirmed to reprise his role as Tony Stark / Iron Man shortly thereafter.[288] Favreau, Paltrow, and Evans also reprise their roles as Happy Hogan,[289] Pepper Potts,[290] and Steve Rogers / Captain America, respectively.[291] The clean-up crew Damage Control appear in the film (after previously being referenced in Iron Man and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) ahead of an intended television series about them.[292][293][294] Various weaponry and artifacts from previous films are referenced throughout the film that Toomes and his crew repurpose for their weapons. In Parker's high school, one of his classes has a lesson about the Sokovia Accords,[295] and portraits of Bruce Banner, Howard Stark and Abraham Erskine are seen within the school
