Other than Cabin and Sinister Goddard also wrote for Netflix's Daredevil series, the Cloverfield films and he apparently was the one who 'rescued' World War Z from its troubled production. He also wrote Ridley Scott's The Martian which stars Matt Damon as an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars.
The studios are looking for a new lead actor and word is that the story will take in high school. This will be the first time that Spider-Man action takes place within a Marvel film.