Tom Holland Talks ‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ Fantasy Casts His ‘Uncharted’ Co-Star
Sony has gone all-in onTom Holland. The young star ofSpider-Man: Homecomingwill play the wall-crawling superhero for at least a few movies (where he will be shared by Sony and Marvel Studios), but he’s also joined another franchise: the long-gestating adaptation of theUnchartedvideo game series. Or rather, the film prequel to theUnchartedseries, as Shawn Levy’s big screen versionwill follow the early days of protagonist Nathan Drakebefore he evolved into the experienced and cocksure adventurer and thief seen in the games.
But first, Holland will appear in next summer’sAvengers: Infinity War, where he will once again team up with the other superheroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In fact, he thinks one of his MCU co-stars should join the cast ofUnchartedin the role of Sully, Nathan Drake’s mentor and partner-in-crime.
Holland’s interview withYahoois mostly focused on the upcomingSpider-Man: Homecoming, but since he’s currently working on the nextAvengersmovie, he also had a few things to say about that experience. While his Spider-Man tussled with and alongside members of the Avengers in last year’sCaptain America: Civil War,Infinity Warmarks the first time he actually got to actually, you know,actwith the bulk of the Marvel regulars:
It’s been crazy, man. It’s been a really, really surreal experience. When I did Civil War, I only worked with Chris [Evans] and Robert [Downey Jr.] very briefly. Everyone else was sort of like, I was acting with a tennis ball or all this sort of stuff. I saw everyone, but I never got to work with them. For this now, I’m in a situation where I’m on set with all these guys doing scenes, fighting bad guys. It’s been a real whirlwind. It’s been a lot of fun.
And it seems like Holland has been making friends on that set. Specifically, he thinks his new Marvel buddyChris Pratt(otherwise known to audiences around the world as Star-Lord) should play Victor “Sully” Sullivan in theUnchartedmovie. Oh, andJake Gyllenhaalwould work, too:
I think Jake Gyllenhaal could be really cool, but I actually went to the Jurassic World film set the other day to visit my friend who is directing it and Chris Pratt is on that film, who I have become very good friends with over the last few months, and I think he would be a great Sully. I think it could be cool, because if it was an older [Nathan Drake] movie I would say that Chris should play Nathan, but I think he would be a good Sully and I love working with Chris.
In theUnchartedgames, Sully is Nathan Drake’s older, grizzled mentor, his father figure in the world of globetrotting and thievery and what-not. But since this movie will be a prequel, it makes sense that Holland would skew younger with his fantasy casting here. After all, he’s only 20 years old – Gyllenhaal is 36 and Pratt is 37. To a youngster like him, those guys probably seem ancient! Oh, to be so young again!
Spider-Man: Homecomingopens onJuly 7, 2017.Avengers: Infinity Waropens onMay 4, 2018.Unchartedwill open whenever the movie gods decide it should be released from development hell.
