Tom Holland has confirmed he is set to play Fred Astaire in an upcoming biopic. The actor, 25, confirmed the news to reporters on Sunday at a London screening of his new movie Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is hitting theaters later this month. He said: 'Oh I am playing Fred Astaire, yeah. The script came in a week ago. I haven't read it yet. They haven't given it to me.' It was first reported last month that Tom had scooped the role, when the news was reported in a GQ profile, which proclaimed that Tom was the 'superhero of the year.' There is much to cover in a biopic of Hollywood legend Astaire, who enjoyed a career spanning 76 years and a raft of box-office hits, many of them with his most famous dance partner Ginger Rogers. Confirmed: Tom Holland has confirmed he is set to play Fred Astaire in an upcoming biopic Tom explained that he knows Spider-Man producer Amy Pascal, 'has the script,' adding: 'She FaceTimed me earlier. I was in the bath' He added that they had, 'a lovely FaceTime, but I will be playing Fred Astaire'. Sony Pictures confirmed to Variety that the Fred Astaire biopic is in 'very early stages' of development. No writer or director has been confirmed for the Fred Astaire biopic, nor has the film's title at this time. Astaire enjoyed a career spanning 76 years and a raft of box-office hits, many of them with his most famous dance partner Ginger Rogers. The son of a brewer from Nebraska, Fred was performing with his sister Adele from the age of five, before he headed to Hollywood in 1932 and formed one of Tinseltown’s great partnerships – Fred and Ginger. They struck box-office gold with Flying Down To Rio in 1933, and nine more movies with Ginger followed including Top Hat, which won four Oscar nominations. At the height of his popularity in the late 30s, Fred was worth so much to the Hollywood studios he had his legs insured for $1 million. Lovely: He added that they had, 'a lovely FaceTime, but I will be playing Fred Astaire,' he confirmed He announced his retirement in 1946 and opened his own dance studio, but was soon back when he replaced the injured Gene Kelly in Easter Parade in 1948, and he continued to make films until 1957 when he announced another short-lived retirement. A year later he was back in the spotlight with the first of four TV specials made over the next ten years that won multiple Emmys. He turned straight actor later in life, appearing in disaster movie The Towering Inferno in 1974 at the age of 75, in his last film, Ghost Story, in 1981, and died in 1987 aged 88. Dancer: Astaire is considered to be the greatest dancer in film history, performing on film, television and on the Broadway stage in a career spanning just over 75 years Dance: He is best known for his musicals with his on-screen partner Ginger Rogers, which also responsible for revolutionizing how dancing was captured on film This is the second Fred Astaire biopic to be happening, with another project in the works at Amazon starring Jamie Bell and Margaret Qualley as Astaire and Rogers, with that project focusing on their successful partnership. Holland is well versed in song-and-dance, having started his career on the London stage, playing the title character in Billy Elliot on the West End from 2008 to 2010. He went viral in 2017, dancing to a mash-up of Singin' In the Rain from Gene Kelly, and Rihanna's Umbrella. He'll next be seen in the highly-anticipated video game adaptation Uncharted, which hits theaters February 18. Early career: Holland is well versed in song-and-dance, having started his career on the London stage, playing the title character in Billy Elliot on the West End from 2008 to 2010 All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility