A breakout star who held his own alongside Idris Elba in Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts Of No Nation, Ghana-born actor Abraham Attah has joined the Spider-Man: Homecoming jamboree. Deadline’s scoop has the 15-year-old signed up for his first blockbuster and his first major role since Beasts.
No word on who Attah will be played (will he be Miles Morales?), but he's high-school aged so it wouldn’t be a stretch to see him pop up as one of Spidey’s peers at Midtown High.
This news follows on from yesterday’s casting cache that added Broad City’s Hannibal Buress, Isabella Amara, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. and J.J. Totah to the ensemble. Tom Holland, of course, has already made his bow as the web-slinger himself, while others previously cast include Logan Marshall-Green, Donald Glover, Zendaya, Tony Revolori, Marisa Tomei and some bloke called Robert Downey Jr.. Jon Watts is directing.
Spider-Man: Homecoming finds Holland's Peter Parker back home in Queens after his encounter with the battling Avengers in Captain Americ: Civil War, figuring out high school life while taking on villains such as Michael Keaton's Vulture.
Attah, meanwhile, can be seen next in Christian Loubek’s Buffalo, a film from Spotlight production house Anonymous Content.