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Is Jamie Bell The Next Spider-Man?

Scott Tunstall | Jun 08, 2010 | 11 comments

Take this piece of news with a grain of salt, but according to Cinematical, via a site called Bleeding Cool, the role of the next Spider-Man has been offered to Brit actor Jamie Bell by Sony execs and director Marc Webb. Bell has appeared in such films as Billy Eliot, King Kong and Jumper.

If this proves to be true, and folks at Sony told Cinematical they are “officially not commenting” on the story, then we here at FlickSided will look pretty smart. Ya see, back in January we compiled our own list of webslinger candidates and Bell was one of our top choices. He can do action and comedy, and is also adept at playing the nerdy outcast type as evidenced by his work in The Chumscrubber and Mister Foe.

Bell, who is 23, also looks younger than his age, so if he is the pick, he could easily pull off a couple installments without looking out of place as young Peter Parker. Anyway, none of this is confirmed, but the fact that Sony isn’t denying it has our collective eyebrows raised.

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Scott Tunstall is the co-editor of FlickSided and Lead Blogger for Inside the Iggles, both of which belong to the FanSided Network. He writes about sports, movies, television and anything else that catches his interest. Scott graduated from film school, but would have been better served using his tuition to make a movie. You can contact him at stunstall72@gmail.com.