The long search for the new Peter Parker for the new Spider-man movie has been found after Sony’s long search.

The studio signed a relative unknown– Andrew Garfield. He will star as the young webslinger in Spider-Man.

The studio went across the Atlantic to discover the 26 year-old British actor, who appeared in last year’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassius and can be seen this fall in Sony’s Facebook movie, The Social Network, as well as Mark Romanek’s adaptation of Never Let Me Go.

With those three movies coming out before Spider-Man, we should have a good grasp of the high-school boy who turns into a superhero.

Marc Webb is directing Sony’s reboot of Spider-Man.