Martin Sheen to Play Uncle Ben

According to The Hollywood Reporter’s comic book movie-specific Heat Vision, Martin Sheen is in the final negotiations to play kindly old Uncle Ben in the upcoming Spider-Man reboot. He has a tough job following up Cliff Robertson, but not as much as whoever is going to follow up J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson. I hope this means that there will be some sort of reference to Uncle Ben being in Vietnam, or maybe a “I love the smell of _____ in the morning.”