Spider-Man is a Marvel franchise, just like Avengers and X-Men. When they rebooted the Hulk in 2008 it was to incorporate the character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Amazing Spider-Man opens on July 3, 2012 in the USA and is a reboot of the character. Spider-Man 3 was released in 2007. It's only been five years since the last movie for this character!
Based on what they did with the Hulk, it seems likely that they're rebooting the series so that they can include the character in the next Avengers movie. Spider-Man is even a member of the New Avengers in print.
Has anyone confirmed whether or not the new Spider-Man movie is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Answer
No, it is still not part of the MCU
According to this article and Wikipedia, Tom Holland will be playing Spider-Man in the new movies, whereas Andrew Garfield played him in The Amazing Spider-Man.
Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, has also made it very clear that this is a new version of Peter Parker:
In terms of the age of what we believe Peter Parker is, I’d say 15-16 is right…We want to play with Spider-Man in the high school years because frankly there’ve been five Spider-Man films and the amazing thing about it is, even though there’ve been five Spider-Man films, there are so many things from the comics that haven’t been done yet.
Note that this contradicts The Amazing Spider-Man. According to Feige:
I think it was midway through the first film that he graduated high school. At the beginning of the second Marc Webb film, he graduated high school. And some of my favorite Spider-Man arcs and Spider-Man stories, he’s in high school for a lot of it.
The Marc Webb films are The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Since Spider-Man will be in high school for Captain America: Civil War, it is clear that Feige is going for a very different story for Peter than happened in The Amazing Spider-Man.
Similarly, from an official Marvel article,
New Spider-Man Will Appear First in an Upcoming Marvel Film Within Marvel's Cinematic Universe
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Under the deal, the new Spider-Man will first appear in a Marvel film from Marvel's Cinematic Universe (MCU). Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, on July 28, 2017, in a film that will be co-produced by Kevin Feige and his expert team at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago. Together, they will collaborate on a new creative direction for the web slinger. Sony Pictures will continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films.
This constitutes explicit confirmation that the version of Spider-Man appearing in Civil War is an entirely new iteration of the character.
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