The guys over at Latino Review had the producers of
The Amazing Spider-Man over for an interview. I'm going to sum it up, but the the whole article, click the link.
Asked whether his parents had a part in the story line for Spider-Man 4
Matt: That wasn’t a part of the conversation on 4, the parents, to be honest with you. It wasn’t.
Avi: Actually, we wanted to keep it away from it.
Matt: It didn’t fit into the three movies, you’d have to go back in time.
They defend the idea of the new spider bite:
Matt: There could never be, in our minds, a version of this movie without the spider bite because it;s a different interpretation of Peter Parker. What Avi’s saying is: What’s unique about this Peter Parker – his parents leave him and he’s left with, what? A briefcase. That’s all he knows. And what’s in that briefcase is a piece of paper and on that piece of paper is a forumla, and what he does with that is goes on a quest, this quest takes him to Oscorp. At Oscorp, he ventures into a room that clearly says: “Do not come in” and gets bitten by a Spider. So it’s a different idea than a spider drops down when he’s on a field trip and bites him.
Avi: It’s not a casual thing, it’s part of the search.
Matt: And it’s part of who he is. So this Peter Parker literally opens Pandora’s box and inside he literally finds a spider. So it’s not just “Oh, this is another version of the spider bite” it has a different meaning in the story and it goes to the core of who he is.
Asked if Spider-Man will create his own villains like Batman
Matt: Very definitely.
When asked about Oscorp appearing in The Avengers:
Avi: It’s a sad story. A close, close friend and college passed, Michael Riva/
Matt: Our production designer.
Avi: And he designed the most amazing ominous building that looks like it was born for New York. And we had a meeting with Kevin [Fiege] and we looked at it and we kind of thought it would be cool to have this building in The Avengers, in any – in all of these movies.
Matt: So you’d have these two towers on the skyline.By the time the CG was done, though, the movie. The timing didn’t make sense.
Avi: It was just timing. But in the future we’ll figure that out. It’s fun for us and fun for the fans.
There you have it guys. For the whole interview, click the link. Oh, and be sure to check out
The Amazing Spider-Man which is now in theaters!