{"id":97679,"date":"2017-06-30T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T23:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=97679"},"modified":"2017-06-27T16:40:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:40:40","slug":"spider-man-homecoming-how-the-mcus-take-will-stand-out-from-the-spidey-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/spider-man-homecoming-how-the-mcus-take-will-stand-out-from-the-spidey-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: Homecoming: how the MCU’s take will stand out from the Spidey crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/strong><\/em> will be the sixth Spider-Man<\/strong><\/em> movie to come out in 15 years, since Sam Raimi\u2019s Spider-Man<\/strong> <\/em>in 2002. Tom Holland will be the third Peter Parker in the same amount of time, and Jon Watts will be the third director to put his stamp on the Spidey universe. <\/span><\/p>\n

Watts had to make this Spidey stand out, but it\u2019s a tricky balancing act. After all, some parts of the Spider-Man world are pretty much set in stone. (\u201cHe has to shoot webs,\u201d Watts deadpans.) Others, however, are flexible.<\/span><\/p>\n

The main difference, of course, is that this time Peter Parker is in the Marvel universe. \u201cHe was always so lonely before,\u201d Watts says. \u201cIn the other movies he was always the only superhero in the world, and that\u2019s a different story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The other changes all came about from Watts\u2019 approach to the character. \u201cBy being able to jump past the origin story we\u2019re able to explore a side of Spider-Man that we haven\u2019t really got to see that much. Having him be young and stay young is good. In the other two versions of Spider-Man he graduates really quickly. I was much more keen on spending time with him when he was still a kid. I thought there was a lot more to be mined from that. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then also capturing just the excitement of what it would feel like to be that age and have those amazing powers. That would be so fun, and I wanted to capture that spirit so that it didn\u2019t feel too heavy. I mean, dramatic things happen and there\u2019s a lot riding on him in the film but I didn\u2019t want to weigh it down so much, at least at the beginning. I want to make sure that this is true to the experience, which would be so fun. If you were 15 and you were really strong and could swing from buildings \u2013 that would be great!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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For Watts, who has lived in New York himself, he was keen to capture not a generic, tourist\u2019s idea of New York, but the real Queens. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen him swinging from tall buildings in Midtown Manhattan before, so let\u2019s take him to places where we haven\u2019t seen him before… He\u2019s from Queens so I wanted it to look and feel like Queens, and I think we were able to do that. It\u2019s different. It\u2019s not Manhattan. It\u2019s a completely different place. It has its own look and its own style and I wanted to try to capture that as closely as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But the real selling point is, of course, the Marvel crossover element, and even Watts felt the thrill of that. \u201cBeing there and seeing Tony Stark and Peter Parker together, for the first time – I don\u2019t think anyone was exactly sure what that was going to feel like until it happened, and then you see that in the moment while the cameras are rolling and you realise \u2018oh, this is going to be a lot of fun\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Spider-Man: Homecoming<\/em> is in cinemas from 5 July. Get all the latest superhero news with every issue of SciFiNow.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n