Reinvention responsibilities and Web Shooters

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Figured I'd just make one thread for both of these Spider-Man related news topics.

‘Spider-Man’ director Marc Webb feels a ‘responsiblity to reinvent’ the hero



The Columbia Pictures film “The Amazing Spider-Man” reaches theaters on July 3, 2012, with a lot of history to live up to — the trilogy of Spider-Man movies directed by Sam Raimi brought in close to $3.5 billion in worldwide box office and keyed billions more in home video, toys, licensing and video games. No one is more aware of that than Marc Webb, the 36-year-old music-video veteran who made his feature directorial debut with “(500) Days of Summer” in 2009 and was the surprise choice to direct this start-from-scratch version of the hero with new star Andrew Garfield. Webb and Garfield begin their conversation with fans on Friday at Comic-Con International, and the filmmaker spoke with our Geoff Boucher about the high stakes.



GB: There’s so much history for this character, on the page and on the screen. Where do you start?

To read more, click here: http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011...b-feels-a-responsiblity-to-reinvent-the-hero/

‘Amazing Spider-Man’ director: Why the web-shooters are back



Moviegoers have seen Spider-Man swing across Manhattan in three hit films already, but when the hero returns next July, there will be a big change in the webs he uses. The franchise’s aptly named new director, Marc Webb, is going back to the traditional comic-book portrayal in which the super strands are a product of web-shooter devices built by the young and inventive Peter Parker.



When Sam Raimi took Spider-Man to the screen in 2002, he made a major departure from the classic mythology of the character by portraying the webbing as a organic substance created by Parker’s mutated biology. The move seemed to smartly streamline the origin but some purists complained that it tampered too much with tradition. Webb says that when he took on the reboot project he wanted to go his own path, which meant breaking from the Raimi movies in places where it made sense — and when it came to the webbing he sought out some very specialized counsel.

To read more, click here: http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/08/01/amazing-spider-man-director-why-the-web-shooters-are-back/



Personally, I'm glad they are doing the Web Shooters in this one.