'Spider-Man: Homecoming' Storyline: High School Dance Confirmed, First Kiss Or Vulture Bust-Up?

At the Ghostbusters Hollywood premiere, Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tom Rothman talked to IGN about Spider-Man: Homecoming, which will be produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Sony as part of the same ongoing deal that brought Spider-Man (Tom Holland) to Captain America: Civil War.

So far most of what we know about the next Spider-Man movie comes from casting announcements and set photos, plus that evocative title. We already know from Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige that Spider-Man: Homecoming will “be a John Hughes movie,” (he’s that guy behind The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Beethoven ) so surely there will be a big high-school dance scene, right?

Right. Tom Rothman confirmed this theory, telling IGN that the title “is relevant to the story because it takes place in high school and there is a scene — that I guess I can give a little thing — at a homecoming dance. I’ve actually seen the dailies of it because we already did the high school shooting of it in the first couple weeks and it’s fantastic.”

Of course, Spider-Man: Homecoming means more than just a school dance. “It’s also a homecoming to Marvel. And a homecoming to the cinematic universe that Spider-Man belongs in. So it’s a pretty unprecedented deal between two studios, but we’re really proud of it,” Rothman said. “And all I can tell you is, those guys at Marvel, I think the technical term is: they know their shit.”

So what will the homecoming dance mean to the storyline of Spider-Man: Homecoming ? Knowing Spider-Man, he’ll be balancing his date and some superheroics. Chances are good someone is going to crash the last dance.

Homecoming has cast three actors to play villains so far: Michael Keaton, Prometheus’ Logan Marshall-Green and Fargo ’s Bokeem Woodbine. It’s widely rumored that Keaton will be playing The Vulture: an old-ass man with a winged flight suit. May he have this dance?