Speaking to
LA Times, Marc Webb - director of the hotly anticipated
The Amazing Spider-Man - talks about why he decided to include the use of the web-shooters in the film (something that Raimi's trilogy didn't), saying that they helped to dramatize Peter Parker's intellect. He also discussed the design of the costume, saying that they wanted to make the body longer and more agile (something that the extended legs of the chest symbol emphasizes).
On why they decided to go with web-shooters...
I had a meeting with Stan Lee and we talked about the web-shooters. I was curious about the incarnation of them [because] of course in the previous films [they went away from them] and we wanted to reestablish ourselves. That was one thing but the other thing was the fact that the web-shooters were able to dramatize Peter’s intellect and I thought that was really cool. … It was in the comics and we have a different design but it’s a cool element to have. It’s not something we over-use or over-exploit. To me, it’s something I remember from when I was a kid and thinking 'It would be cool if I could build those.'
On the design of the costume...
We paid attention to the question of ‘How would a kid make it?’ And obviously we took some license with it. We also wanted a design that would make the body longer and more lithe, more of an acrobat, someone incredibly agile, and the legs of the spider [symbol on the chest] were something we used to emphasize that. We made a bunch of different suits for different lighting conditions. I wanted something that worked in the night a little better. We paid attention to that and also made the webbing [on the costume] a little bit darker. With the costume and the web-shooters we wanted to emphasize that these are things that Peter Parker made and that he is special himself even if he feels like he’s an outsider.
The Amazing Spider-Man swings into theaters July 3rd, 2012!