Marvel Studios’ game plan has shifted from well-known directors to handing the reigns of their films to newer directors. From the Russo Brothers to Scott Derrickson, Marvel has had success with new directors and now Jon Watts has directed the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming. In a recent interview, Watts stated,
“I didn’t think I was gonna get the job, at all. I had a really great meeting with them – an initial meeting after they had seen Cop Car – and I really didn’t ever think I was going to get it. I had been wanting to make a coming of age movie, though, so when it was sort of floated that they were gonna make Spider-Man younger than we’ve ever really seen him before… that was really exciting. I had already been trying to make that sort of a movie, so I took all of those ideas I had been working on and kind of projected them onto this film. I made like a mood reel, just editing together a bunch of clips into almost like a fake trailer,” Watts said. “To show people the tone I was imagining. And I storyboarded a bunch of sequences that I sent to them, and just… I thought it was going to be really good practice for pitching to big studios. I really didn’t think I was gonna get it, until the very very end.”
Spider-Man: Homecoming looks like another hit for Marvel as the film is currently certified at 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and releases this Friday.
