Latino Review sprak onlangs met Marc Webb over zijn aanstaande superheldenfilm The Amazing Spider-Man, die vanaf 2 juli in de Nederlandse (3D) bioscoop te zien is. De regisseur gaat onder andere in op enkele personages in de film, die volgens hem geen remake is van de versie van Sam Raimi.
Op de vraag van Latino Review waarom er op een eerdere teaserposter de tekst "The Untold Story" staat, zegt Webb: It's really important for us to be able to communicate that this isn't a remake of Sam Raimi's movie. There's a new territory, there's a new villain, it's a different Peter Parker.
Ook geeft hij antwoord op de vraag waarom er gekozen is voor Gwen Stacy, gespeeld door Emma Stone, in plaats van Mary Jane: We've seen Mary Jane. I also think that Gwen Stacy is a young scientifically minded woman who's super smart, maybe even a little bit smarter than Peter at times. I like that dynamic, that there was a rivalry between the two of them in some way. And I think Emma and Andrew's chemistry really describes that in a fun, very intimate way.
Met het oog op de trailer en de eerder genoemde poster lijkt het erop dat we een wat donkerdere film kunnen verwachten. Maar is Spider-Man juist niet een superheld met de nodige humor? There's this trickster quality we were very keen on exploring, with that humor and that fun and that wisecracking stuff. We wanted to keep that alive, but we wanted it to be realistic. We wanted that humor to come from a real place. My aim was to create a world where you could feel all those emotions. There are certainly darker, more intense feelings in this movie. There is betrayal, there is tragedy, but there's also humor and romance. So it's a very complex bouquet of emotions, but what you have to tread on is what feels authentic and what feels real, and you have to earn those different emotions. There are moments of furiousness and gravity, absolutely. But are there moments of humor and levity and whimsy? Absolutely. Andrew was really great. He used this term to describe Peter Parker in Spider-Man and Spider-Man in particular: he's a trickster. He was like "How would Spider-Man web this guy? He'd give him a wedgy or he'd dos some awful graffiti." There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker that's really irreverent and fun and that's something that Andrew embodies in a way that we haven't seen before. Certainly the materials that have come out have a darker sentiment or there's a darker projection, but we're very keen on staying loyal to the humor of Spider-Man.
En hoe zit het met de 3D? Wat kunnen we ervan verwachten bij The Amazing Spider-Man: When we first talked about it, it was in the heyday of 3D and there was a lot of craziness about it. But it was never forced upon us. I thought if there's ever a movie that should be in 3D, it's Spider-Man for crying out loud. And watching it in 3D, particularly in IMAX, even the early stuff I've seen, it's fantastic. You get a visceral feeling that you don't get any other way when you have good 3D. We shot this all in stereo so it was native 3D. Nothing has been converted. And when you get that scope, the movie gradually expands. It starts off in a very intimate, small way and gradually expands to take advantage of that sensation. So do you have to see it in 3D? No, you'll still get the thrill of it. But those point-of-view sequences, those came very directly from a philosophy about putting the audience in Spider-Man's shoes. We wanted them to feel what he feels, and that's where those sequences came from.
Hieronder de eerdere trailer:
