EXCLUSIVE: The traditional Scottish city of St Andrews was hit with a heavy bout of Spidey fever this previous weekend because the third annual Sands Worldwide Movie Pageant opened, pulling in an eclectic set of movies, filmmakers, and audio system alongside one fashionable visitor of honor.
Spider-Man actor Tom Holland, additionally identified for The Unattainable, Cherry, and The Satan All of the Time handed via the fest, which opened with a screening of Final Name, a brief mission he leads with Lindsay Duncan (Blackbird) that was co-written and directed by his brother, Harry Holland. The Holland brothers additionally took half within the first annual Sands golf event, which can proceed as a part of the competition’s wider actions. It was on the pristine {golfing} greens the place Tom linked up with Deadline to debate his profession up to now and plans for future tasks, together with whether or not he’ll return for a fourth Spider-Man film.
“The straightforward reply is that I’ll all the time need to do Spider-Man movies,” Tom informed Deadline. “I owe my life and profession to Spider-Man. So the straightforward reply is sure. I’ll all the time need to do extra.”
The extra “sophisticated reply” Tom added is how he and the Spider-Man group strategy any follow-up to Spider-Man: No Method Dwelling, the third title in his webbed saga, with out retreading previous themes.
“We’ve the most effective within the enterprise working towards regardless of the story could be. However till we’ve cracked it, we’ve a legacy to guard,” he mentioned. “The third film was so particular in so many ways in which we’d like to verify we do the proper factor.”
He added: “That is the primary time on this course of that I’ve been a part of the inventive so early. It’s only a course of the place I’m watching and studying. It’s only a actually enjoyable stage for me. Like I mentioned, everybody desires it to occur. However we need to ensure that we’re not overdoing the identical issues.”
Mike Fleming Jr, Tom Holland, Harry Holland, Donald Mustard, Joe Russo. (Sands Movie Pageant).
Starring Holland alongside Zendaya, Tobey Maguire, and Andrew Garfield, Spider-Man: No Method Dwelling opened in December 2021 and took $260M in its first weekend, turning into the second-highest opening ever on the home field workplace. It could ultimately race previous the billion-dollar mark and encourage a now-seminal web meme.
Holland was final seen on display within the Apple mini-series The Crowded Room reverse Amanda Seyfried, Sasha Lane, and Will Chase. The sequence was created by Akiva Goldsman and impressed by the e-book The Minds of Billy Milligan. The Spider-Man actor informed us he’s now engaged within the improvement of a number of burgeoning tasks.
“We’re figuring it out. We’re at that stage the place it’s post-strike, so we’re ready for these scripts to return in,” he mentioned. “We’re giving the writers the time they should hit the bottom operating. However I’ve bought just a few tasks that I’m actually enthusiastic about and scripts are coming in now and so they’re nice. I learn one thing the opposite day that completely blew my thoughts.”
Tom Holland was only one of some high-profile names to cross via Sands this yr. The competition additionally hosted a novel Q&A session with composer Alan Silvestri, finest identified for scoring Forrest Gump, Again to the Future, and Solid Away amongst different Hollywood classics. The session was bookended with an intimate efficiency by Silvestri who was accompanied by the St Andrews Chamber Orchestra.
(Picture by Euan Cherry/Getty Photographs for College of St Andrews)
Movies screened as a part of this yr’s competition lineup included Anna Hints’ Sundance-winning doc Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, Daisy Ridley-starrer Generally I Assume About Dying, and Anthony and Joe Russo’s little-seen 2002 comedy Welcome to Collinwood. The movie’s producer Steven Soderbergh was additionally current for a uncommon onstage Q&A following the screening.
Mounted throughout a weekend in St Andrews, Sands is run by Ania Trzebiatowska — additionally a full-time programmer at Sundance — with a formidable gang of part-time pupil programmers from the College of St. Andrews, a companion on the competition alongside Joe and Anthony Russo’s AGBO. The competition closed Sunday night with Maggie Contreras’ debut characteristic documentary Maestra, during which 5 feminine conductors from throughout the globe put together for and compete in La Maestra, the world’s solely competitors for feminine conductors.
