Not a lot of winners caught in this web.
By Brandon Wolfe
The search for yet another Peter Parker is narrowing down for the Sony/Marvel reboot of Spider-Man and now the hunt for a new director has turned up a shortlist of candidates, according to Deadline. Reportedly, the pool that is being looked at includes Jonathan Levine (50/50, Warm Bodies), Ted Melfi (St. Vincent), Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect), John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein (the upcoming Vacation) and Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite).
For those among us who groaned at Sony’s previous Spidey choice of Mark Webb, who only had the fizzily slight rom-com (500) Days of Summer under his belt before being handed the job, this list of similarly untested directors of lightweight comedies doesn’t inspire much in the way of enthusiasm. Perhaps a Spider-Man film doesn’t need a heavy-hitter director, but someone with some degree of experience with action and visual effects would seem optimal.
Conspicuously absent from this list is Drew Goddard, the Cabin In The Woods director and Daredevil co-creator who was previously going to write and direct the Sinister Six film before The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s failure scuttled those plans. Goddard was rumored to be grandfathered into this new project due to his work on Sinister Six, but clearly that didn’t pan out. Pity, because Goddard would have been far more suited to the gig than any of these jokers.
A more enticing tidbit to come from the article is that producers Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal are concocting a multi-movie arc that will take place over 3-4 years and chronicle each year of Peter Parker’s high-school experience, in the Harry Potter mold. The idea is to have the spider-biting already out of the way going in so the films can chart Parker as he navigates fighting supervillains and dealing with regular teenage issues concurrently.
The new Spider-Man will make his debut next year in Captain America: Civil War before getting his own movie on July 27, 2017.
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