We’ve made no secret of being happy that the new Spider-Man reboot—any other disappointments we may have with it aside—will supposedly skip the hero’s well-worn origin story. Now that the project has writers, they’ve confirmed again that we won’t wind up waiting several years just for another Spider-Man movie we’ve already seen before.
Superhero movies in general can get frustrating for long-time fans by taking forever to get made and then focusing on a character’s origins, which leaves those already familiar with the character effectively waiting for the sequel for things to really get going. The Spider-Man movie franchise has compounded that problem by going for a third movie version very soon after the second, when the biggest problem with the Amazing Spider-Man reboot (let’s not even talk about its sequel) was that it covered nearly identical ground to Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man.
Speaking to USA Today recently, writers John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein again mentioned that the plan is to skip the origin story, along with some other details about their version of Parker as a geek with a humor defense mechanism. Daley said,
I don’t think the origins story is gonna be in there, and also I think we’re going to avoid [Spider-Man 3‘s emo dance] … as much as I loved it.
Wait… which one?
This?
Or this?
Or this?
… Anyway.
Goldstein added,
The tone will be really grounded, about a real kid who gets these powers and what that means with a geeky, outcast kid and how he deals with them. You don’t instantly become a superhero, it’s a long journey. He’s is spending a lot more time in high school. And so we have time to sort of develop the powers with him and experience the wish fulfillment. And also just the fact that it’s really alienating to other people.
Director Jon Watts also elaborated on the “John Hughes” feel to the movie we’ve heard about, saying that it’ll be a lot more about juggling high school life and being a superhero. That should be another welcome departure from other Spider-Man movies, as they haven’t featured a lot of Peter’s day-to-day life and generally kept the “juggling” aspect almost solely to how it affects his love life.
(via Geek Tyrant)
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