Tom Holland has officially captured the role of the web-slinging superhero Spider-Man and his teenage alter ego, Peter Parker, Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures announced on Tuesday. He will be the third actor in nine years to play the part.

Unlike the previous two iterations of the character, performed by Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield in films released by Sony Pictures, the new Spider-Man will exist within Marvel Studios' established cinematic universe, part of a deal announced in February by Marvel, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company, and Sony.

The character is expected to first appear in Marvel Studios' Captain America: Civil War, which is currently filming, and will open May 6, 2016. He will then headline his own feature film from Sony Pictures, to be produced by Marvel Studios Chief Kevin Feige and former Sony Pictures Co-Chair Amy Pascal. That film is scheduled to open on July 28, 2017.

The studios also announced on Tuesday that the new Spider-Man film will be directed by Jon Watts — an independent film director who got his start working for the satiric Onion News Network. Watts' most high-profile feature film, Cop Car, is a comedic thriller about two 10-year-old kids who find a seemingly abandoned cop car, while the cop (played by Kevin Bacon) strives to get it back. It debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival to decent reviews, and will open in theaters on Aug. 7.

Indeed, Watts' apparent experience working with young actors in a thriller setting could have been what helped him land the job. Because the other major difference between Holland and his predecessors in the role: age. Although Maguire and Garfield's Spider-Man movies started in high school, both men were firmly in their twenties when they first took on the role, and both film series had moved on from the high school setting by their respective sequels. Feige, however, has been clear that the plan for the new Spider-Man movies — presuming they continue in a planned trilogy — is to explore Parker's high school years. And Holland is 19.