Englishman Tom Holland has been announced as the next Spiderman. The 19-year-old is relatively unknown and this will be by far his biggest role to date. He formerly starred alongside Irish actress Saoirse Ronan in 2013’s How I Live Now and in the TV series Wolf Hall.

Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios said he will star in the upcoming Spiderman film expected to hit cinemas in 2017. But before that, his first appearance as Spidey will be in the Captain America: Civil War due out in 2016.

It was also announced that the director of the latest Kevin Bacon film Cop Car, Jon Watts will direct the new Spiderman.