Jonathan Levine and Ted Melfi frontrunners to direct new Spider-Man reboot

Moviemakers JONATHAN LEVINE and TED MELFI have emerged as the favourites to direct the planned reboot of the SPIDER-MAN film franchise.
Studio bosses at Sony Pictures are preparing to take the big screen adaptation of the Marvel comic books back to the beginning with a new actor as the web-slinging superhero and his alter ego Peter Parker, who has previously been played onscreen by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield.
Now Sony executives are closing in on a filmmaker to take charge of the project, with Warm Bodies’ Levine and St. Vincent’s Melfi the top picks to land the job.
However, directing duo John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, and newcomer Jon Watts are also still in contention, according to Deadline.com.
Meanwhile, Hugo child star Asa Butterfield and The Impossible actor Tom Holland are reportedly the frontrunners to portray Spider-Man after Sony and Marvel chiefs spent Saturday (30May15) doing screen tests in Atlanta, Georgia with the final group of six. The other contenders are Judah Lewis, Matthew Lintz, Charlie Plummer and Charlie Rowe.
The chosen Spider-Man star will first appear as the masked superhero in the next Captain America film, 2016’s Civil War, in which he will feature as a teenager, before taking on the lead for the stand-alone Spider-Man franchise.