SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING: Uncle Ben And Tony Stark To Have Minimal Roles In The Film
According to director Jon Watts, the film will have a mention of Ben, but it's not an element that he wanted to focus on. “They talk about that, absolutely. It’s not… it’s not a huge thing that I want to go into too much, but there is an acknowledgment that there was a Ben,” Watts told press during a set visit.
“I mean, we’re implying he’s dead. We have not at all, again, gone into trying to change his origin story as far as I have been envisioning it. But we, just again, we thought that to keep this fun, light tone, as soon as they have to have their, like, ‘Let’s remember our dearly departed father figure’ – it derails that a little. And again, what we’re trying to tell is this sort of fun story of the kid who is doing all the wrong things for the right reasons. And once you do that, it stops becoming a sort of fun movie about a kid trying to be a kid. He’s mourning the loss of a parent.”
According to co-producer Eric Carroll, Downey Jr. “might be in like five or six [scenes]”.
om Holland also explained the nature of Peter and Tony's relationship, which he ended up likening to a brotherly bond than the fatherly one that most have assumed is happening. “I think we’re seeing the beginning of a sort of father-son relationship. Obviously Tony hasn’t got any kids, and Peter at this point hasn’t got any male figures in his life, so I think there’s a really lovely dynamic that Robert and I are forming. And, no, let me take that back. I think Robert is more like a big brother than he is a father figure because he picks on him and he is down on him quite a lot. But then there is that level of him caring about him like his own, and Robert has really brought something lovely to the character. It’s a very different side of Stark than you’ve ever seen before.”
