Tom Holland confirms he will portray Fred Astaire in biopic: 'The script came in a week ago'

 "Oh, I am playing Fred Astaire. Yeah, I am," Holland told reporters, as seen in the above video from the Associated Press. "The script came in a week ago. I haven't read it yet. They haven't given it to me. I know that Amy Pascal has the script. She FaceTimed me earlier. I was in the bath, and we had a lovely FaceTime. But I will be playing Fred Astaire."

Pascal, a producer on the Holland-led, Jon Watts-directed Spider-Man trilogy, revealed last week that another Spider-Man trilogy for Sony with Holland is in the works as well.

"This is not the last movie that we are going to make with Marvel—[this is not] the last Spider-Man movie," Pascal told Fandango in an interview published Nov. 29. "We are getting ready to make the next Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland and Marvel. We're thinking of this as three films, and now we're going to go onto the next three. This is not the last of our MCU movies."

Pascal also told writer Oliver Franklin-Wallis for GQ's "Man of the Year" cover story of Holland that she wanted the British star to take on Astaire "in a forthcoming movie." 

Elsewhere in that article, it is described that Holland grew up in Kingston Upon Thames, south of London, when he was cast at nine years old from a West End choreographer for a Billy Elliot musical, which sent Holland on a two-year course of training in ballet—all of which was foreshadowing for playing one of the best dancers to ever grace American pop culture.

There is a separate Astaire film in development for Amazon Studios, titled Fred & Ginger, with Jamie Bell as Astaire and Margaret Qualley as Ginger Rogers. "Astaire and Rogers starred in 10 movies together, starting with Flying Down to Rio in 1933 and ending with The Barkleys of Broadway in 1949," Variety relayed in December 2020. "The pic plans to examine what individually drove Astaire and Rogers while celebrating the creative magic between them. It will tell the real love story between these two legends both on and offscreen."

Astaire died from pneumonia in June 1987. The Primetime Emmy winner and Oscar nominee was 88 years old.

Spider-Man: No Way Home is expected to swing into U.S. theaters Dec. 17. Watch the trailer below.