Who is Andrew Garfield, besides one of Britain’s hottest young actors, you ask? Well, he was just cast as Peter Parker Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man film. That’s right, there’s a brand new friendly neighborhood web-slinger, and he’ll be swinging on the big screen in summer 2012.

Sony recently announced their reboot to the Spider-Man franchise, which will veer from the Sam Raimi directed trilogy that starred Tobey Maguire eight years ago.

In the reboot, Peter Parker returns to high school, as the story scales backward to a time when Spidey struggles with his inability to prevent his uncle’s death. Sounds like another emo-Spidey story if you ask me.

The British-based Garfield, twenty-six, is the same age Maguire was when he first took on the superhero role back in 2001.

While many of us here in the States may be wondering just who Andrew Garfield is, you may remember him appearing in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. He has won numerous awards in Britain, and was named one of the top 10 actors to watch by Variety Magazine in 2007.

It looks like Variety was right, as Garfield is now stepping into the spotlight. It won’t be long before he’s decorating the walls of teenage girls all over the world, as he’s much cuter than Tobey Maguire… or so my teen says.