Steve Kloves reveals a few pretty cool things about Sony and Marc Webb;s upcoming Spider-Man reboot. You can see the whole video interview by clicking the link back to Collider, but here are the abbreviated highlights..
Kloves says the tone will be more naturalistic and this movie will be more grounded in reality than Raimi's trilogy.
..I said, ‘I can’t do ‘shazam!’ dialogue, that’s not what I do. If you wanna do the Peter Parker I knew as a kid reading the comic book, I can do that, because it was grounded in exactly what you said, reality.’ So they said ‘Yes that’s what we want, we want you to come in and write Peter Parker as a real character.’
I wrote this very, very naturalistically. A lot of humor, but naturalistic humor, not jokes. But really trying to make them seem like real characters. I think Peter Parker’s a great character, and I certainly think Emma’s character is a fantastic character, Gwen. I wouldn’t have done it if they wanted me to do, ‘Hey look in the sky!’ I don’t know how to do that, I can’t do that. I realize that’s the wrong character but…
He then reveals that he was asked to write the sequel(Sony are planning a trilogy) but declined. He speaks about some of the pre viz action sequences he witnessed..
“They had talked to me about doing the second one when I was doing it, and no I didn’t wanna—I sort of dated it, I don’t wanna marry it. I will tell you this though, Mark Webb, I saw some of his pre-vises, and what impressed me about Mark Webb’s pre-vises was that they were really coherent, you could follow the action. There’s sometimes guys who do that stuff and it’s like eye-candy, but you have no idea what you’re watching. With this, what I saw in the pre-vises, Mark had designed it in such a way that you were really following Spider-Man as he was engaging in these action sequences, and it made it much more thrilling because you felt you were with him..
Kloves also confirms, just in case there was still any doubt, that this version of Peter Parker will be making his own web-shooters He talks about the reasons behind doing this..
“There was a reason for it. It was about an organic thing versus a mechanical—making it. They had a whole complicated thing about it and as you know, it always involves Marvel because Marvel is very, very involved in terms of—they have a list of things, it’s like a bible of things, which are good things, most of them, because you don’t want someone just completely destroying this wonderful character, because it’s a really good character…I asked about that, because I can’t remember why, but it complicated things for me, and I had to ask why ‘Why am I doing this? Why do I have to do this?’ But I wrote some actually cool stuff for that, and I think Mark’s gonna do it. Mark had really good ideas too, he has some really cool ideas.”
Sounds pretty awesome to me. I know some people are allergic to hearing "grounded in reality" now but I think many actually misinterpret what that means. Anyway, just by way of some extra info. The BBFC have classified and rated the teaser trailer for The Amazing Spider-man. It will be 1 minute 40 seconds long and SHOULD be with us fairly soon.
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